David McKay
RCA

 

 

David McKay - born 1945, in Fredericton, New Brunswick

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Fields and Generations, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2006 Eastern Light, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2002 Walking Home, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2001 Canada Media Marketplace, New York City, New York

2001 Peter Buckland Gallery, Saint John, New Brunswick

2001 Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1999 Peter Buckland Gallery, Saint John, New Brunswick

1999 Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1997 Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1994 The Ring Gallery, Saint John, New Brunswick

1990 The Ring Gallery, Saint John, New Brunswick

1988 Gallery 1667, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1984 Shayne Gallery, Montréal, Québec

1982 Shayne Gallery, Montréal, Québec

1980 Manuge Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

1980 Shayne Gallery, Montréal, Québec

1978 The New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick

1977 The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, toured galleries in Atlantic Canada

1977 Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2010 Wolasoq (Beautiful River), The St. John River Project, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2010 The Art of Drawing, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2010 McKay, Scott and Wilson, Figures and Landscapes, Peter Buckland Gallery, Saint John, New Brunswick

2009 Portraits - New Brunswick Artists, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick

2008 Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, Mass. USA

2007 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario

2002 Atlantic Canadian Artists: a selection, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2001 Three Traditional Realists, The Upstairs Gallery, Thomaston, Maine, USA

2001 25th Anniversary Celebration, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

2001 Deep Sea, ABEC, Saint John, New Brunswick

1996 Vision 20/20, Gallery 78, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1992 Works in Progress, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1991 The Atlantic Art Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1989The Atlantic Art Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1987 NB Juried Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1986 Hollander York Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1982 Moving Pictures, provincially toured in New Brunswick schools

1978 Realism, Aggregation Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1978 The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, NB Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick

1976 The Montréal Olympics, Montréal, Québec

1976 Atlantic Coast, Internationally touring exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada and Mount Saint Vincent University

EDUCATION

self taught artist

1967 Diploma in Structural Technology, Saint John Institute of Technology, Saint John, New Brunswick

MEMBERSHIPS

Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA)

Board Member, Canada Council of the Arts, March 2012-2016

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, England
Mount Allision University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Irving Oil Limited, Saint John, New Brunswick
the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Galerie d’art de l’université de Moncton, Moncton, NB
The New Brunswick Art Bank, Fredericton, NB
Esso Resource Centre, Calgary, Alberta
McCain Foods, Toronto, Ontario
The Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton and Saint John, NB

COMMISSIONS (selected)

2001 Watercolour painting, Down the River Road, for Canadian Media Contacts, New York

1985 Egg tempera painting, The Runner, for the Province of New Brunswick, (collection of His Royal Highness Prince Andrew)

1984 Large egg tempera painting, Warming Up the Downtown, for Irving Oil Limited

1983 Four paintings commissioned for NB Tel, which were reproduced on the 1983 telephone directories)

SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE

Radio and Television

2003 Bravo Television, half hour documentary (national)

2002 CBC Radio Canada, half hour documentary (New Brunswick and Québec)

1990 CBC Radio,Mainstreet

1990 ASN Television, Halifax, 20 minute feature

1987 CBC Radio, Anthology (national)

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

2009 The Salon, Telegraph Jounal, August 1

2007 The Salon, Telegraph Jounal, January 27

Arts Atlantic, Issues Nos. 11, 14, 18, 19, 24, 25, 36, 38, 43, 47, 49 and 55

Halifax Magazine, September 1980

Art Magazine,Issues Nos. 22 and 25

Atlantic Insight, May 1979 and January 1983

The Atlantic Advocate, June 1977

Numerous articles in The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton), The Gazette (Montréal), The Evening Times Globe (Saint John), The Daily News (Halifax), The Ottawa Sun (Ottawa), The Toronto Star (Toronto)

PUBLICATION OF WORK (selected)

2009 Portraits: New Brunswick Painters, Wilson, Larocque, Buckland, New Brunswick Museum

2008 The Fiddlehead, The Tribune Press Ltd. (cover artwork)

2003 Setting in the East, David Creelman, McGill-Queens University Press (cover artwork)

2001 Canadian Media Contacts, Canadian Tourism Commission (cover artwork)

1993 For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down, David Adams Richards, M & S (cover artwork)

1993 The Fiddlehead, The Tribune Press Ltd. (cover artwork)

1989When Things Get Back To Normal, MT Downey, Pottersfield Press (cover artwork)

1987 The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge and Change, Peabody, MacGreagor, Thorne Maritext

1985 Road to the Stilt House, David Adams Richards, Oberon Press (cover artwork)

1984 Fury, David Watmough, Oberon Press (cover artwork)

1983 NB Tel directory (front and back covers)

HONOURS, AWARDS, PRIZES

1987 Honourable mention in Marion McCain exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

1986 Creation grant from the Arts Branch, Province of New Brunswick

1976 Canada Council Travel Grant

Included in Canadian Who's Who