Photo by Mel Hattie

Maria Doering is a German multidisciplinary artist and printmaker, living and working in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia since 2012. She received a BFA summa cum laude from the Hartford Art School in 2007 and an MFA from Concordia University in 2010.

Maria’s work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in the U.S., the U.K., Denmark, Italy, Romania, Taiwan, China and Japan. Her work has been regularly recognized in international competitions since 2015, including the Tokyo Screen Print Biennale (2015), the International Print Biennial ROC (2016), the Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial (2017), the Pacific States Printmaking Biennale for North America (2018), the G6 Graphic Arts Biennial of Szeklerland (2020), and with the Best of Paper Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (2022).

Maria has taught undergraduate printmaking courses at NSCAD University in Halifax since 2013 and undergraduate drawing courses at St. FX University in Antigonish occasionally since 2018. She was the President of the Nova Scotia Printmakers from 2016 to 2018. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by Arts Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Creative Industries Fund, and she has two pieces included in the Nova Scotia Art Bank collection.

Maria currently works from her studio in downtown Dartmouth. Her art practice moves fluidly between drawing, printmaking, installation art, painting and embroidery.

-December 2023