About the artist:

Born in Kansas, Mary Joan Waid moved to New York City after she graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in fine arts. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States as well as Germany, Switzerland and Japan. She was awarded numerous art colony residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY and MacDowell in Peterborough, NH. She has paintings in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, Wichita Art Museum and the National Academy of Design in New York City, as well as in private collections across the United States. Her work can be seen at Atrium Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri. She currently lives and works in New York City and Vermont. 1961BFA Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 1981 Purchase Award, Henry Ward Ranger Fund, National Academy of Design, New York 1985MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, NH 1988Yaddo Fellowship, Saratoga Springs Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Collection: Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah Collection: Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS Exhibitions 2002Small Works, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo) 2002Art is Art, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 2002Art Palm Beach, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2002 The Emprise Bank Colection, Multiple Personalities: 1954-1970, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 2001All Wichita: Part One, Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, KS 2001Selections, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 2001A Summer Garden, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 2000Pastels, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 2000Recycled Paper III, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2000Realism Today, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2000Celebrating Yadda Artists, Williamburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY 1999Millenium Madness, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1999Into the New Century, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 1999Hushed Moments, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1998Then and Now, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1997Realite, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo) 1997Portraits, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1996G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY (solo) 1994The Gallery, State Theater Center for the Arts, Easton, PA (solo) 1993Galerie Samuelis Bumgarte, Beilefeld, Germany (solo)