Maura Doyle is an artist and writer whose hybrid practice encompasses ceramics, sculpture, printed matter/publications and drawing. Connecting all of her work is a vernacular style of artmaking rooted in her day-to-day life. Her current focus is on her inner and outer worlds as it relates to the forms of artworks she makes.

Doyle’s erratic boulder sculptural works are permanently installed in Toronto and Vancouver. Writing about her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Canadian Art, Art Fag City, and Broken Pencil, among others. She has self and co-published numerous artist books and multiples (sometimes in collaboration with Annie Dunning), including There’s a New Boulder in Town or, Guide to Toronto’s Erratic Boulders for Locals and Visitors (2004); Guide to the History of Beaver Architecture: Sticks and Mud Reconsidered (2009); and Gone: Removed Public Art in Ottawa/Anishinaabeg (Algonquin) Aki (2018) .

Doyle holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA from the University of Guelph. Solo and group exhibitions include Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, 2020), Open Studio (Toronto, 2019), Angus-Hughes Gallery (London UK, 2018), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, 2016), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax, 2015), YYZ Artists’ Outlet  (Toronto, 2014), ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche, (Toronto, 2011), Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto, 2009), Remo (Osaka, 2006), Power Plant (Toronto, 2005), White Columns (New York, 2004), and Art Metropole (Toronto, 2003). Doyle’s work is held in the collections of the City of Toronto, City of Vancouver, City of Ottawa, Fidelity Investments, TD Bank Group, Ottawa Art Gallery, and Global Affairs Canada. She has been awarded numerous grants, including from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and is the recipient of the 2017 K.M. Hunter Award for Visual Art. She lives and works in Ottawa / Algonquin Anishinaabeg Aki.

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