Maura Doyle is an artist who works in ceramics, sculpture, printed matter, printmaking, drawing and video. Her recent focus is on ceramic sculpture and publishing. Over two decades of her work is included in mid-career survey exhibition Dear Universe, which is currently touring Canada. To date, it has been presented at Gallerie Axeneo7, Gatineau, QC (2023) and Audain Gallery, Vancouver, BC (2024). Her recent work Hallow Recoil is a series of CT-scanned pots with interiors that do not reflect their outside forms exhibited at Central Art Garage, Ottawa (2023). Her recent publications include printed matter work Gone published by Ottawa Art Gallery, (2018); and a series of self-published oversized letters, Fool’s Cap Letters (2019). 

Between 1993 and 2004, Doyle published 10 annual Mail Order Catalogues with Annie Dunning. Her erratic boulder sculptural works are permanently installed in Toronto and Vancouver. Solo and group exhibitions include Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, 2020), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, 2016), YYZ Artists’ Outlet  (Toronto, 2014), Dalhousie University Art Gallery (Halifax, 2026), Paul Petro Contemporary Art (Toronto, 2019), Remo (Osaka, 2006), Power Plant (Toronto, 2005), Toronto Sculpture Garden (2004), White Columns (New York, 2004), Passagen Art Center (Linköping, Sweden, 2004) and Art Metropole (Toronto, 2003). She participated in residencies at Open Studio (Toronto, 2019), Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, AB, 2017) and Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, ON) where she worked with the gallery’s ceramic collection (2017). Also in 2017, she received the K.M. Hunter Award for Visual Art.

Maura Doyle is from Ottawa, Ontario, which is Anishnaabeg (Algonquin) Aki.

Interview with Robert Dayton, White Hot Magazine here.
Video tour of my work by curator Kimberly Phillips The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom (2020) here.
Exibition review by Josh Thorpe, Canadian Art (2014) here.

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Expanded catalogue of works / archive and CV available by request.

Upcoming projects:
Sept 2025: A republished and reconsidered edition of my 2009 artist book Beaver Architecture: Sticks and Mud Reconsidered. Updated edition commissioned by SFU Galleries, Vancouver, BC.

Sept 2025: Dear Universe, Exhibition at Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC.