Chantal Khoury: Stay Longer

Chantal Khoury (b. 1986, New Brunswick, Canada) is of Lebanese descent and is based between Toronto and Montreal. She was recently honoured with the prestigious 2023 Joe Plaskett Award in Painting (a national accolade awarded to an outstanding Canadian painter), and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canadian Federation of University Women, and a spot in the ‘22/’23 RBC Emerging Artists Network at the Power Plant Contemporary Gallery. Permanent Collections include the Royal Bank of Canada, The Art Gallery of Guelph, and the University of New Brunswick. Exhibitions include Stay Longer, Nicodim, New York (2025, solo, forthcoming); The Amber of this Moment, Galeria Nicodim, Los Angeles (2025); Liang Fu, Chantal Khoury, Daniel Pitín, Nadia Waheed, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024); The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2024); Plural Contemporary Art Fair, Montreal (2023); Art Toronto (Canada’s Art Fair, 2023); Feeling Without Touching, Nicodim, New York (2023); I TIE THEM LOOSELY, Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles (2023, solo); I had the same thought, TAP Art Space, Montreal (2023, two-person exhibition); Holding Echoes, Michael Gibson Gallery, London (2022, solo); Cloth and Feather, Birch Contemporary, Toronto (2021, solo); Other People’s Gardens, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton (2020); Be/Longing, Gallery on Queen, New Brunswick (2018); Unstilled Egoes, University of New Brunswick (2014, solo). Khoury obtained her MFA from the University of Guelph (2021) and her BFA with Distinction from Concordia University (2012).