Exhibitions

Taking Sight Out of the Eyes: An Aesthetic Epistemology of Low Vision

2026
Taking Sight Out of the Eyes: An Aesthetic Epistemology of Low Vision
The exhibition's central question is the production of reality: how much a body diagnosed with low vision contributes to it, and in what way the materialization of this vision into objects—visible, tangible, beautiful—bursts into normalcy and virtualizes it as an effect of a context of domination that separates, differentiates, and hierarchizes bodies. read more

WAYFINDERS: AU GRÉ DES SENS

2026
Wayfinders: au gré des sens
Wayfinders présente les oeuvres de dix artistes vivant avec ou sans handicap dans un espace conçu par trois co-commissaires aux capacités mixtes. read more

BI XA RA NDUMUI, AYA P’AMPAY [TO BURY A CORPSE | TO SUSPEND GRIEF]

2025
BI XA RA NDUMUI, AYA P’AMPAY
The exhibition explores collective memory, resistance, ritual, and mourning across Latin America, tracing connections between territorial struggles, colonial histories, and communal forms of healing and renewal. The exhibition explores collective memory, resistance, ritual, and mourning across Latin America, tracing connections between territorial struggles, colonial histories, and communal forms of healing and renewal. read more

INVADIERON POR MAR, RESPONDEMOS CON FUEGO. UN PRESAGIO. (THEY INVADED BY SEA, WE RESPONDED WITH FIRE. AN OMEN.)

2025
INVADIERON POR MAR, RESPONDEMOS CON FUEGO. UN PRESAGIO.
A time-based artwork in the form of a quarter-scale replica of a 17th-century sailing ship used by European colonists landing in the Americas. read more

Uncommon Senses V Virtual Art Gallery

2025
Uncommon Senses V Virtual Art Gallery
In May of 2025, the Centre for Sensory Studies hosted Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences. Selected works from the conference's virtual art gallery are now a permanent exhibit. read more

Modal Olfactory Atmospheres: Experiential Design of Olfactive Environments

2024
Modal Olfactory Atmospheres
How do you experience light and sound in accordance to smell? read more

A Tale of Two Cities in Three Parts: An Experiment in Listening to the Locative in Montreal and Edmonton

2024
A Tale of Two Cities in Three Parts: An Experiment in Listening to the Locative in Montreal and Edmonton
Three listening acts came together to tell a Tale of Two Cities through the sounds that make them. The soundscapes of Montréal and Edmonton clashed in a series of recordings to explore the locative aspects of sound. read more

Uncommon Senses IV Virtual Art Gallery

2023
Uncommon Senses IV Virtual Art Gallery
In May of 2023, the Centre for Sensory Studies hosted Uncommon Senses IV: Sensory Ecologies, Economies, and Aesthetics. Selected works from the conference's virtual art gallery are now a permanent exhibit. read more

Air, River, Sea, Soil: A History of an Exploited Land

2022
AIR, RIVER, SEA, SOIL
The stories shown in this exhibition span a rich diversity of everyday experiences to rethink disability and access within the specific histories and localities of the South West Asian/ North African (S.W.A.N.A.) region. read more

Ether

2021
Ether
An immersive sensory environment that explores the possibilities of sensory perception in outer space— read more

Uncommon Senses III Virtual Art Gallery

2021
Uncommon Senses III Virtual Art Gallery
In May of 2021, the Centre for Sensory Studies hosted Uncommon Senses III: Back to the Future of the Senses. Selected works from the conference's virtual art gallery are now a permanent exhibit. read more

Dissuasion Engine

2021
Dissuasion Engine
How will your next online purchase decision impact your future and that of the planet? This question forms the basis of Dissuasion Engine. read more