Kirk Maynard
Phone: (862) 279-3612
kirkmaynardart@gmail.com
506 South Jefferson St,
Orange, NJ 07050
Education
MFA New Jersey City University, Studio Art (Drawing and Painting) 2019
BS Andrews University, Visual Arts Education 2014
Solo Exhibitions
Periphery, Arts Visalia, Visalia, California 2021
Periphery Continued, Holy Family University Art Gallery, 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Self, Montgomery College Cafritz Gallery, Silver Springs, Maryland 2020
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey 2019
Group Exhibitions
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 2021
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 2020
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 2019
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
Jersey City Art and Studio Tour, Brunswick Center, Jersey City, 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
Grand Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2018
Wish You Were Here, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey 2018
Minimalism, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 2014
Awards and Affiliations
LMCC Governors Island Artist-in-Residence 2021
Martin and Lorraine Kaminsky Studio Artist-In-Residence 2021
Guttenberg Arts Center Artist-in-Residence 2021
William & Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award 2021
Royal Talens Cultural Equity Grant 2021
Montgomery College Artist-In-Residence
Lunder Institute Grant 2020
New Jersey City University Teaching Assistant and Gallery Assistant 2017 – 2019
HOME Philadelphia Artist-In-Residence 2019
Camp Stomping Ground Artist-In-Residence 2019
Wet Paint NYC Art Fellow 2019
Puffin Foundation Artist Grantee 2019
J.N Andrews Honors Scholar 2014
Artist Talks
Philip C. Curtis Lecture Series, Albion College, Albion, Michigan 2021
Montgomery College Art Department (Virtual) 2020
Visual Thinking, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, New Jersey 2020
EGSO Conference, University of Albany, Albany, New York 2019
LAC Conference, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania 2019
EGSO Conference, University of Albany, Albany, New York 2019
Exploring the Marginalization of the Black Body in the Public Sphere,
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts 2019
Romantic Prints On The Move, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2019
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 2018
Dream Deferred, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey 2017
Collections
Miami University 2021
Avenel Performing Arts Center 2019
South Orange Performing Arts Center 2018
Everhart Museum 2018