Résumé

Select Solo Shows

.2024 Art X Contemporary, Settle, WA

.2024 Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA

.2024 Early Birds Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

.2024 Gail Severn, Ketchum, ID

.2022 Vacheron Constantin, New York City

.2024, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

.2020 Ric Michel Fine Art, Hamptons, NY 

.2018 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ

.2017, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA, 40 pieces and 3 wall installations

.2016, 2014, IFC Mall Gallery, Shanghai, China

Select Group Shows

2024  

. Early Birds Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

. Southeast Wildlife Expo (featured artist)

2023

. Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

. National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY

. Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA

. Wilding Museum, Solvang, CA

2022

. National Wildlife Art Museum, Jackson, WY

. Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

. Ward Museum, Salisbury, MD

. High Desert Museum, Bend, OR

2020

. Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID.

. Ric Michel Fine Art

2019

. Into the Woods, Gerald Peters Gallery, 4-person show

2018

. Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

. Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA

. Childhood’s End Gallery, Olympia, WA

. Plantation Arts Festival, featured artist, Thomasville, GA

2017

. Southeast Arts Expo, Charleston, SC

. Coors Western Art Show, Denver, CO

2016

. Art Aspen, Aspen, CO

. Plantation Arts Festival, Thomasville, GA

. Art and the Animal, Houston Museum of Natural Science,

. Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

. Coors Western Art Show, Golden, CO (People’s Choice Award)

2015

. Art Miami, Miami, FL

. Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wassau, WI

Selected Commissions

· 2021 Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC

· 2020 Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, CA

·2018  Crowne Plaza Hotel, North Augusta, SC 

·2017: Zhejian Natural History Museum, Hangzhou, China

·2017: Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA

. 2013–2023: White Bird Dance Awards,  Portland OR

.2013: City of Olympia, WA

.Private commissions throughout the USA and Europe, Australia, New Zealand

Appearances

.PBS, Craft in America 11/2024

.Art Zone, Seattle WA, 12/2023

 .“Reimagining Feathers,” PINC Talk, Zeist, Netherlands, 2018

.“Feathers and Art,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, 2017

.The World in a Feather,” TEDx Talk, 2015

.Keynote, Audubon Annual 2013

.“Feathers in Art”, Tacoma Art Museum, 2013     

. REI, Adventure & Conservation Speaker 

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

.Spark Birds, by Orion Press 2023

.Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng 2023 (cover)   

.National Geographic, May 2019

.Feathers, Western Art Collector, April-May 2019

.Between Here & the Heavens, Southwest Art Magazine March-April 2018

.Jump into Video Marketing (front cover), .Profession Artist Magazine, January 2018

.Birds from a Feather, Garden and Gun Magazine, Feb-March 2017

.Ascension, American Artist Magazine, June 2017

.Rendering Feathers, Covey Rise Magazine, February-March 2017

.On a Wing, Western Art and Architecture, February-March 2017

.The Art and Craft of Illustration, Sandu Cultural Media, Alchemy—, Gingko Press, 2016

Collections

.Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Winslow, WA, Zhejiang Natural History Museum, Hangzhou, China, Group Health Orthopedics, Olympia, WA, Marriott Park Lane Hotel, London, UK, Crowne Plaza Hotel, North Augusta, SC, Park Hyatt Hotel, Mallorca, Spain, City of Olympia, UW Medical Center, National Museum of Wildlife Art

.Private collections throughout the USA; and Europe, China; Japan; Australia, Brazil, New Zealand

Select Press

.The Life Cycle of a Feather, Orion Magazine, 2023

.AARP July, 2021

.National Geographic May, 2020

.“Birds Lend Plumage to Feathered Artwork”, Seattle Times, May 14, 2017

.”The Man Who Reincarnates Feathers," Audubon, July 29, 2016

.”Artist Finds Inspiration in a Light-as-Air Material," Seattle Times, December 20, 2015

.”Beautiful Artwork Cut Out of Feathers," Smithsonian, January 10, 2013

Select Videos

. “Chris Maynard, Feather Artist”, Garden and Gun Magazine, 2017

.“Featherfolio with Chris Maynard”, Bainbridge Island Art Museum, 2017           

Gallery Representation

Ric Michel Fine Art, New York, NY, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM , Galerie Bettina, Paris, France, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Early Birds Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium, Childhoods End Gallery, Olympia, WA, Muriel Guepen Gallery, New York, NY, SEWE Gallery, Charleston, SC, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY

Education

.2012, EDGE Professional Development Program, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA

.1987, B.A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Select Other Experience

.2019: Desert Museum Artist Residency, Tuscon, AZ

.2018: National Duck Stamp Contest judge, Las Vegas, NV, judge

.2017: Curi Cancha Artist Residency, Costa Rica