Résumé
Select Solo Shows
2020, 2024: Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2024: Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA
2022-2023, 2024: Early Birds Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2022: Vacheron Constantin, New York, NY
2022: Ward Museum, Salisbury, MD
2021, 2018, 2017, 2016: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2020: Ric Michel Fine Art, New York, NY
2019: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tuscon, AZ. 40 pieces & large wall installations2017, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA. 40 pieces and wall installations
2018: Bainbridge Misland Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA
2016, 2014: IFC Mall Gallery, Shanghai, China
2015: Lieutenant Governor’s Art Council, Washington State Capitol, Olympia, WA
2013: Washington Center for the Performing Arts Gallery, Olympia, WA
2012: Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA (63 pieces)
2011: Washington Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA
Select Group Shows
2017 - 2024
Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Wilding Museum, Solvang, CA
Museum of Flight Seattle, WA
Gallery 1621, Denver, CO
SouthEast Art Expo, Charleston, SC
National Wildlife Art Museum, Jackson, WY
Coors Western Art Show, Golden, CO
Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Ward Museum, Salisbury, MD
High Desert Museum, Bend OR
Old West Museum, Cheyenne, WY
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
10x10 Tieton, Tieton, WA
Childhoods End Gallery, Olympia, WA
Stonington Gallery, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Jackson Art Fair, Jackson, WY
Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL
Aspen Art Fair, Aspen, CO
Southeast Wildlife Expo, Charleston, SC
Plantation Arts Festival, Thomasville, GA. featured artist in 2018
2016
Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival, Thomasville, GA
Art and the Animal, Society of Animal Artists' 56th Annual Exhibition, Houston Museum of Natural Science, TX; Canton Art Museum, Canton, OH, Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Western Visions, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, WY
Bodies + Beings, Abmeyer & Wood, Seattle, WA
Art Aspen, CO
Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA
Southeast Wildlife Expo, Charleston, SC
Coors Western Art Show, Golden, CO (People’s Choice Award)
2015
Art Miami, NOW Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wassau, WI
Art and the Animal, Society of Animal Artists' 55th Annual Exhibition, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY (Merit Award)
Adaptations, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Of a Feather: Artists, Birds and the Northwest, White River Valley Museum, Auburn, WA
Artists for Conservation, Annual Exhibit, Grouse Mountain Resort, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Compositions, Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT
2014
Artists for Conservation, Annual Exhibit, Grouse Mountain Resort, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Animals in Art, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (Honorable Mention)
Birds in Art, Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Crow/Raven: Magic and Mystery, artEAST Art Center, Issaquah, WA
2013
Garden, Arts West, Seattle, WA
2012
Birds in Art, Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2011
Washington State Department of Ecology
Select Commissions
2022: Vacheron Constantin, New York
2020: Federal Reserve, Washington DC
2020: Kaiser Hospitals, California
2019: Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta, GA
2018: Crowne Plaza Hotel, North Augusta, GA. Installation
2017: Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou, China. 7 pieces
2017: Philips Arena, Atlanta Hawks Team Owler's Lounge. installation
2013–2023: White Bird Dance Awards, Portland OR
2013: City of Olympia, WA
Private commissions throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe; Japan, China, New Zealand; Australia
Awards
2022: Honorable Mention, Wills Creek Exhibition, Salisbury, MD
2022: People’s Choice, Below the Surface, University of Rhode Island, RI
2017: finalist, Art Olympia, Tokyo, Japan
2016: People’s Choice Award, Coors Western Art Show, Denver, CO
2015: Merit Award, Society of Animal Artists, NY
2015: Conservation Artist Award, Artists for Conservation, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2014: Honorable Mention, Animals in Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Appearances, etc
Federal Duck Stamp judge, Las Vegas, NV 2018
PINC conference speaker. Zeist, Netherlands 2018
The World in a Feather, TEDx Talk, Washington Center for Performing Arts, Olympia, WA, 2015
Olympia man transforms feathers into art, New Day Northwest, KING-5 TV, December 8, 2015
Talk, Tacoma Art Museum, 2014
Keynote, Audubon Annual, 2013
REI, Adventure & Conservation Speaker Series, 2013
Select Publications
Feathers, Form and Function: what feathers are, how they work, and why we find them alluring. Art and text by Chris Maynard. Aviva Publishing, NY, November 2014
Orion Magazine, 2023
Feathers, American Art Collector Magazine, April-May 2019
Between Here and the Heavens, Southwest Art Magazine, March-April 2019
Cover image, Professional Artist Magazine, December-January 2017-2018
Sandu Cultural Media, Alchemy—The Art and Craft of Illustration, Gingko Press, 2016 (featured artist)
On a Wing, Western Art and Architecture, February-March, 2017
Covey Rise: Rendering Feathers, February-March, 2017
National Geographic Magazine, May 2020
AARP Magazine, July 2021
Select Collections
Crowne Plaza Hotel, N Augusta, SC
Federal Reserve, Washington DC
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou, China
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Winslow, WA
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Group Health Orthopedics, Olympia, WA
Marriott Park Lane Hotel, London
Park Hyatt hotel, Mallorca, Spain
City of Olympia, University of Washington Medical Center
Private collections in the North America, Europe; Australia, China, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand
Select Press
Art Zone TV show, Seattle, WA Decemnber 2023
The Man Who Reincarnates Feathers, Audubon, July 29, 2016
Bohemian Rhapsody: Olympia, Washington, American Craft, July 15, 2016
Olympia artist finds inspiration in a light-as-air material, Seattle Times, December 20, 2015
A Comforting Gentleness–Interview with Feather Artist Chris Maynard, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 11, 2015
Plume Perfection: Chris Maynard’s Feather Art, American Lifestyle, November 2014
Beautiful Artwork Cut Out of Feathers, Smithsonian, January 10, 2013
Chris Maynard’s Feather Art On Reddit Is Having Us Question Our Crafting Skills, Huffington Post, December 21, 2012
Education
2012, EDGE Professional Development Program, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
1987, B.A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA