KIRK MAYNARD
EDUCATION
2019 New Jersey City University, School of Art
Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting
2014 Andrews University, School of Education
Bachelor of Science in Art Education
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Profiles, Oresman Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2024 Introspections: Societal Margins and Dreams of Diaspora, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2023 Illumination, Gorevin Gallery, Radnor, Pennsylvania
2022 The Things They Carried, Hiestand Gallery, Oxford, Ohio
2021 Periphery, Arts Visalia, Visalia, California
2020 Periphery, Holy Family University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2020 Self, Montgomery College Cafritz Gallery, Silver Springs, Maryland
2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Jersey City University Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 2024 NJ Arts Annual: Exploring Our Connections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
2024 Art Noire, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
2023 Cross-Cultural Perspectives, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
2023 Emergence, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois
2023 The Portrait Of The Artist...And Other Things, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2023 The Calm Before the Storm, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2022 New Perspectives, McCutchan Art Center, Evansville, Indiana
2022 44th Annual National Art Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, Illinois
2022 Tell Me More About Yourself, Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey
2021 Black Art Matters, Golding-Yang Gallery, Morehead, Kentucky
2021 Made Here, Guttenberg Arts Center, Guttenberg, New Jersey
2021 The Bridge, The Rahway Gallery Space, Rahway, New Jersey
2021 Yeck Painting Exhibition, Hiestand Gallery, Oxford, Ohio
2020 Fletcher Exhibit, Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee
2020 Watershed, Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2020 Breathing While Black, Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
2020 Conversations 2020, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
2020 Visual Thinking, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, New Jersey
2019 Every Ghetto Every City, BSB Gallery, Trenton, New Jersey
2019 Blurred Expectations, Lycoming College Gallery, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
2019 Costality, Cast Iron Lofts, Jersey City, New Jersey
2019 That’s What She Said, Edwin W. Zoller Gallery, University Park, Pennsylvania
2019 Power To The People, Arsenal Gallery, New York, New York
2018 RED (traveling exhibition), Walsh Gallery, South Orange, New Jersey
2018 RED zine (traveling exhibition), Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania
2018 BNEC, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
2018 Coaction, Valley Arts Community Gallery, Orange, New Jersey
2018 UnAmerica, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
2018 The Earth Speaks, Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, New Jersey
2018 Brighter Day, Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, New Jersey
2018 Art of Survival, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California
2018 Student Art Show, N2N Gallery, New York, New York
2018 Wish You Were Here, New Jersey City University Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
2014 Minimalism, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan
LECTURES/ARTIST TALKS
2024 Profiles Exhibition Artist Talk, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
2023 Illumination Exhibition Artist Talk, Cabrini University, Radnor, Pennsylvania
2021 Philip C. Curtis Lecture Series, Albion College, Albion, Michigan
2020 Montgomery College Art Department, Takoma Park, Maryland
2020 Visual Thinking, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, New Jersey
2019 LAC Conference, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania
2019 EGSO Conference, University of Albany, Albany, New
2019 Exploring the Marginalization of the Black Body in the Public Sphere, Massachusetts College
of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
2018 Romantic Prints On The Move, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018 International Conference on Stigma, Howard University, Washington, DC
2018 Queens College Diversity Conference, Queens College, Flushing, New York
2018 Displacement Conference, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York, New York
2018 Black Impossible (RED project), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
2018 BNEC, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
2018 UnAmerica, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
2018 Convening for Contemporary Art, Education, and Social Justice,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
2018 RED, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey
2017 Dream Deferred, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2024 MASS MoCA Studio Artist Residency
2024 Golden Foundation Art Residency
2024 Mid-Atlantic Art Foundation Fellowship
2023 CFEVA Fellowship
2023 Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Residency
2023 Connect Residency
2023 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship and Residency
2022 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant
2022 Mana Contemporary Artist Residency
2021 LMCC Governors Island Artist Residency
2021 Martin and Lorraine Kaminsky Studio Artist Residency
2021 coLAB Artist Grant
2021 Guttenberg Arts Center Artist Residency
2021 William & Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award
2021 Royal Talens Cultural Equity Grant
2021 Montgomery College Artist Residency
2020 Lunder Institute Grant
2019 New Jersey City University Teaching Assistant and Gallery Assistantship
2019 HOME Philadelphia Artist Residency
2019 Camp Stomping Ground Artist Residency
2019 Wet Paint NYC Art Fellowship
2019 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant
2014 J.N Andrews Honors Scholarship
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Collection
Miami University
Avenel Performing Arts Center
South Orange Performing Arts Center
Everhart Museum
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