05/16/2026
GALLERY ON QUEEN’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION! “MICHAEL KHOURY: BETWEEN ECHOES”
Join us on Saturday, May 30th, 2026, from 3 PM to 5 PM as we celebrate Gallery on Queen’s 10th anniversary and opening of Michael Khoury: Between Echoes.
Gallery on Queen began 10 years ago, born from Nadia and Michael Khoury’s desire to start an alternative platform for local artists. Since then, it has evolved into a vibrant cultural space supporting artistic creators from across the country. This landmark exhibition celebrates the gallery co-founder’s prolific art career, which flourished alongside his years of dedication and contributions to the gallery's operations.
Between Echoes traces key moments across themes and decades of Michael Khoury’s artistic practice. Intimate portraits and figurative works will hang alongside expressive domestic settings, with some on view to the public for the very first time.
Michael is best known for illuminating still lifes and figures with unapologetic brushwork and maintains a deep connection to place. Following over two decades in the retail fashion industry with Nadia, he has developed a visual language informed by New Brunswick’s landscapes, the symbolic resonance of Lebanese domestic spaces, and the street life of Paris, where he has spent much of his time.
While he draws inspiration from his immediate surroundings, the thematic and formal qualities are influenced by his heritage. Many of these paintings are shaped by relationships with his wife, his children, and, particularly, his late mother and maternal figures throughout his life. His ornate painting techniques pay homage to the legacy of pivotal art movements from Southwest Asia and North Africa that have shaped his sensibility and the art world. �
Join us in celebrating a decade of Gallery on Queen!
__________________________________ “There is, I think, a kind of spontaneous geometry working itself out through the various stages of Michael Khoury’s career as a painter…the 1980s and 90s are marked by a movement of forms and perspectives on a horizontal plane. A second phase emerges in the 2000’s, when Michael becomes concerned with issues of structure and form. His paintings now thrust vertically into a contemplation of the depths and plasticity of matter.” - The late Allen Bentley
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Khoury (b. Lebanon) lives and works in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His works are held in notable public and private collections, including the Presidential Palace of Togo, Africa; the 2003 Canadian Ambassador to France, Raymond Chrétien; The Honourable Frank McKenna, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations; the University of New Brunswick Art Centre; and Jeunesse Musicales. He has exhibited internationally including, but not limited to, Galerie Kastel Gallery (Montreal, QC); Gallery Ehden (Lebanon); Andrew and Laura McCain (Florenceville, N.B.); Hollander York Gallery (Toronto, ON); Whistler Village Art Gallery (Whistler, B.C.); Aitken Bicentennial Exhibition Centre; (Saint John, N.B.); Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton N.B.); FUNF Gallery (Montreal, QC) and Gallery on Queen (Fredericton, N.B.). For many years, Khoury was represented by Kastel Gallery in Westmount, Montreal, before building a permanent home at Gallery on Queen in Fredericton.
Michael Khoury
Opulence - 48_ x 30_, oil and acrylic on Canvas
Part of the Masquerade Series Ville de Paris Paris circa 2004
