Daniel Merriam

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Daniel Merriam is a painter who was born on 1963 in York, Maine and grew up in Naples, Maine, a rural town in central Maine. He was one of seven children in an artistic family and taught himself to paint at an early age.^[1] He studied mechanical and architectural design at Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute. While still in school he applied his skills in architecture to his family’s design and construction business. He then moved into the commercial art field working as an architectural and commercial illustrator for a number of multi-national corporations.

Merriam’s illustrations have won numerous awards including several Broderson awards, New England Scholastics Press Association Award (for editorial cartooning) and the University of New England Honorary Masters of Humane for the potential societal contribution of his work.

In 1986, Merriam shifted his focus solely to fine art and later that year had his first solo exhibition at Abacus Gallery in Maine.

In 1998, Monarch Editions published The Art of Daniel Merriam: The Impetus of Dreams, a collection from a decade of his work. In 2005, the book was introduced into the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.