Don Voisine

“Center for Maine Contemporary Art: Case Study: Interviews with Suzette McAvoy, Don Voisine and Lauren Henken,” the Finch.net, Richard Benari January 28, 2017

2016 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME “X/V,” (catalogue)

2014 Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Cary Smith – Don Voisine” (catalogue)

dr. julius | ap galerie, Berlin, Germany “Black Out: Don Voisine – Jan Maarten Voskuil”

FutureShock OneTwo Internationale Neue Konkrete +, Matthias Seidel(Editor) SURFACE Book, dr. julius | ap 2012 Golden, Deven. Catalogue essay for exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art, New York 2009 Long, Jim. “R-Value,” brochure essay for exhibition at Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ 2006 Presentational Painting III, Gabriele Evertz, John Cox and Abbey Ryan, 2006 Abstract Dilemmas: American Abstract Artists, Dr. Lori Verderamme, 2002 Punk & Bloat, Bill Arning, 2000 Toward The New: American Abstract Artists, Joan Webster Price, 2000 American Abstraction: 4 Currents, Peter Frank, 1985 Small Works; New Abstract Painting, Barbara Zabel and William Zimmer, 1984

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2011 Purchase Prize, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Fund Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2008 Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award, National Academy Museum, New York 2006 Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts 2004 Edward Albee Fellowship, Montauk, NY 2000 Honorary BFA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2010 New Arts Program Exhibition Space, Kutztown, PA Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA Reading Area Community College, Reading, PA

2009 McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (catalogue) Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Animated Icons of Color – Don Voisine Visual Discrepancies, December 15, 2009

In Conversation: Don Voisine by Ben La Rocco and Craig Olson, Brooklyn Rail, June 2009

2007 McKenzie Fine Art, "Mark Dagley - Don Voisine"

2006 Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

Don Voisine R-Value at Abaton Garage Chris Ashley Look, See, October 15, 2006

1998 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

1988 Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY "Katherine Bradford - Don Voisine"

1985 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY

Don Voisine (born 1952 in Fort Kent, Maine) is an American abstract painter living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, USA. In the fall of 2016, "X/V," a 15 year survey of his work, was organized by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME. In 1997 he was elected a member of American Abstract Artists and became President of the group in 2004. Voisine was elected to the National Academy in 2010. His work is included in the public collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Cincinnati Art Museum,Cincinnati, OH; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; the Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT and the National Academy, New York, NY.