VITRINE
Vitrine Exhibitions
The Art History Vitrine hosts month-long exhibitions dedicated to the public expression of art historical research, methods, and objects of study. Since 2006, professors and graduate students have curated installations in this display cabinet on themes as varied as Canadiana, print culture, postcards, as well as architectural drawings and models, often using original works of art by Concordia students.
Current exhibition
Open the Body: What Lies Beneath and Who Decides
This exhibition explores what it means to open something in order to understand it. Across anatomy, warfare, natural history, and systems of collecting, the works reveal how bodies and worlds have long been studied, organized, and controlled through acts of observation. To open the body is not simply a gesture of discovery. It is also a process shaped by power, curiosity, fear, and desire.
Featuring works created for the Winter 2026 course ARTH 349 Studies in the History of Print: Art and Science in Print (16th to 18th Centuries) taught by Kristina Parzen.
Previous exhibition
EAHR-ARTH 390 presents Museum Controversies
Spring 2026
EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research) is proud to launch the Department of Art History vitrine exhibition Museum Controversies, featuring the final projects of students from Alice Ming Wai Jim’s course ARTH 390 Art and the Museum: Museums and Controversy. The exhibition brings together a series of student projects that engage critically with some of the most pressing ethical, political, and institutional debates shaping museums today.
