David Maes

Born in Canada to a Canadian mother and a Dutch father, he moved to France in 1987, marking a new chapter in his artistic journey.

Trained as a painter, he discovered printmaking shortly after arriving in Paris, joining the renowned Lacourière-Frélaut workshop. His talent was quickly recognized: in 1990, he was awarded a grant from Quebec’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the Jury Prize from the Space Group of Korea in Seoul, and a special mention for the Lacourière Prize in Paris.

The following year, in 1991, he received recognition from the Grav’x Foundation in Paris. In 1992, he was selected as a resident artist at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid—a stay that deeply influenced his work, notably through the light and contrasts of the South. He remained there until 1994.

In 1993, he earned an honorable mention at the National Printmaking Prize in Madrid, followed by the Jury Prize at the Third World Triennial of Prints in Chamalières in 1994. That same year, he left Madrid for the Paris region before settling in southern France, near Nîmes.

David Maes’s works have entered numerous public collections, including those of Air Canada (Montreal), the Picasso Museum (Antibes), the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Calcografía Nacional (Madrid), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the City of Montreuil, Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa), and the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec.