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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2021 Aquārium, public performance, Kingston ON.
2019 Skeye Projects, Floating Archives, Doug Fluhrer Park, Kingston ON.
2018 Swimmers, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB.
Skeye Projects, The Spire: 100,000 poets festival, Kingston ON.
Skeye Projects, Fire Light Festival, installation, Picton ON.
Skeye Projects, Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Kingston ON.
Skeye Projects, 30 Island Lake Project, South Frontenac ON.
2015 Following the after thought, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB.
Fluff, House of Falconer, Picton ON.
2012 Tidal Mass, Cambridge Gallery, Cambridge ON. Curated by Iga Janik.
2011 Wind Forms, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
Conditional Atmospheres, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary AB.
2010 Franken Forest, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON.
Franken Forest, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa ON.
2009 Maintaining Gravity, Walker Contemporary, Boston, Massachusetts.
2008 Fractured Reflections, McIntosh Gallery, London ON.
Looks Like Rain and Falling to Pieces, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie ON.
State of Migration, Pouch Cove Foundation, Pouch Cove NL.
2007 Tidal Mass, NGB Studios, Kingston ON.
Falling to Pieces, Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo ON.
Weather Report, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary AB.
2005 Blue River Series, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary AB.
Smoke Signals, Chase Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
2004 Wave Forms, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary AB.
2001 Primitive Geometry, Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary AB.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2020 Sadiqa, virtual exhibition, Kingston ON.
Sunscreen, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB.
Next Door: A Skeleton Park Neighbourhood Art Project, installation, Union Gallery and Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Kingston, ON
2018 Who is Bruce Kauffman?, anthology of Kingston poets and filmmakers, film by Don Maynard and poet Steven Heighton.
2015 Constellations, Centre national d’exposition, Jonquiere QC.
2013 Constellations, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montreal QC.
2012 Genus Locii, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga ON.
2011 Void, Moon, Circle, York Quay, Main Gallery, Harbourfront, Toronto ON.
2009 Maintaining Gravity, CAFKA, Veracity, Kitchener ON.
2005 Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. Curator: Julie Sasse.
2003 Connected: Art in Kingston, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON.
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2019 Stand of Birch, Cyrville Station, Ottawa Light Rail Transit, Ottawa ON. Total budget: $265,000.
2015 Wave, York Community Recreation Centre, City of Toronto. Total budget: $235,000.
2013 Fallen Star, Halfmoon Bay Park, Barrhaven, City of Ottawa. Total budget: $75,000.
2011 Archive, Central Archives and Ottawa Public Library Materials Centre, Ottawa ON. Total budget: $135,000.
The Central Archives and Ottawa Public Library Materials Centre received the Award of Merit — Public Places and Civic Spaces for the Ottawa Urban Design Awards, 2011.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa ON.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON.
City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
City of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON.
General Electric Corporation.
GRANTS & AWARDS (selected)
2020 Ontario Arts Council, Multi and Inter-Arts Project Grant.
Kingston Arts Council, City of Kingston Arts Fund Project Grant.
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Media Grant.
2019 City of Kingston and Kingston Arts Council, Mayor’s Arts Awards, Creator Award.
2018 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Project Grant.
2017 Ontario Arts Council, Senior Project Grant.
2013 Chalmers Arts Fellowship.
2012 Ontario Arts Council, Grants to Visual Artists.
2011 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistance to Visual Artists, Project Grant.
Public Places and Civic Space for the Ottawa Urban Design Awards for Central Archives & Ottawa Public Library Materials Centre, and Archive, Award of Merit.
2009 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
RESIDENCIES
2016 Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON.
2010 Spark Box Studio, Prince Edward County, ON.
2008 Pouch Cove Foundation, Pouch Cove, NL.
2007 “New Works” Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB.
Artist in Residence, Visual Arts Department, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON.
2000 Artscape, Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Don Maynard: Looks Like Rain”, Gil McElroy, Espace Sculpture, Spring 2009.
“Silence: the Music That I Care to Hear,” Allan Irving, Fractured Reflections, November 2008.
“Don Maynard,” Ben Darrah, Canadian Art, Spring 2007, Vol. 24, No. 1, p. 112.
“Dorothea Van Camp & Don Maynard,” Shawn Hill, Art New England, December 2005/ January 2006.
Mattera, Joanne, The Art of Encaustic Painting, New York, Watson-Guptill, 2001.
"Maynard Reveals His Emotions Through His Art," Melanie Dugan, Kingston Whig-Standard, Saturday, January 20, 2001.
"House Hold: Don Maynard," Lee Parpart, Canadian Art, Fall 1998, Volume 15, Number 3.
"Don Maynard at the Bau-Xi," Gary Michael Dault, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, June 27, 1998.
"Don Maynard at Painted City," Betty Ann Jordan, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, June 7, 1997.
"Artist Gets National Exposure," Lee Parpart, Kingston Whig-Standard, Saturday, February 10, 1996.
MEDIA
CBC The Exhibitionists, Floating Archives, documentary 2019
Don Maynard is the subject of a half-hour segment of "Adrienne Clarkson Presents," produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His work has also been featured on CBC-TV's Courants du Pacifique.