EDUCATION
2001 - 2005 - AOCAD – Ontario College of Art & Design – Photography
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Solo Exhibition (title TBD) – RiverBrink Art Museum, Queenston ON.
Flower Carpets/Tapetes Floridos – Gallery Almada Negreiros, Consulate General of Portugal, Toronto, ON (pending)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 - Flower Carpets/Tapetes Floridos – Smokestack Gallery, Hamilton, ON
2019 - 2020 - Flower Carpets/Tapetes Floridos – Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University, St. Catharines, ON
2013 - Danny Custodio, Trees – Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA.
2011 - Azulejos – CRAM International – St. Catharines, ON.
2009 - Azulejos – Curated by Ivan Jurakic, Cambridge Galleries Preston, Cambridge, ON.
A day of Cultural Events 2009 – Queens Park, Toronto, ON.
2008 - Azulejos – Gallery Almada Negreiros, Consulate General of Portugal, Toronto, ON.
2007 - A day of Cultural Events 2007 – Queens Park, Toronto, ON.
2005 - leave/remain/return – Mind Control – Window Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2004 - Cultural Affirmation / Afirmacao Cultural – Gallery Almada Negreiros, Consulate General of Portugal. Toronto, ON.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 - Paper Pushers: a Group Exhibition of Smokestack Special Limited Edition Prints – Smokestack Gallery, Hamilton, ON
Pansies – Paul Elia Gallery, Hamilton, ON
SNAP 2021 - Photography Auction – In support of ACT (Aids Committee of Toronto), Toronto, ON
2020 - Niagara Falls Night(s) of Art – Organized by the Niagara Falls Museums, Public Installation, Niagara Falls, ON
2019 - Traffic Signal Box Project – Flower Carpets/Tapetes Floridos – Public Installation. Hamilton, ON
Transformations – 2019 City of St. Catharines Annual Juried Art Exhibit – St. Catharines, ON
Common Waters – Idea Exchange Design at Riverside, Cambridge, ON
2017 - 2018 - Dreams and Schemes: Building the Welland Canals – RiverBrink Art Museum, Queenston, ON.
2017 - CMagazine Art Auction – Division Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2016 - Late Summer/Early Fall ’16, Group Show – TAG Art Gallery, St. Catharines, ON.
CMagazine Art Auction – Division Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Project 31 – OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2015 - Repair Centre – Curated by Tara Bursey, Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, ON, (Catalogue)
2014 - Flash Forward Tenth – Organized by the Magenta Foundation, ONSITE Gallery, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON
Priceless: The Art Auction for Yo-Pros – organized by NextNiagara, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.
SNAP!14 Photography Auction – In support of ACT Toronto, Toronto, ON.
2013 - The Wiki Show – Curated by Olexander Wlasenko, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
Beyond the Wall: Unpacking the Layers of St. Catharines’ Walls, The City of St. Catharines 2013 Juried Exhibition – City Hall, St. Catharines, ON
ECO ART 2013 – Curated by Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON.
2012 - Biannual Juried Exhibition – The Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON.
Flash Forward – Emerging Photographers 2011 Exhibition – The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland, ME.
Flash Forward Festival – Emerging Photographers 2011 Exhibition – Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston, MA.
2011 - Flash Forward – Emerging Photographers 2011 Exhibition – Airship 37, Toronto, ON.
Art with Heart, Art Auction in support of Casey House – The Carlu, Toronto, ON.
Revolutionizing Cultural Identity: Photography and the Changing Face of Immigration – Curated by Claude Baillargeon, Pier 21, Canada’s Immigration Museum, Halifax, NS. Catalogue.
Framework Foundation’s 8th Toronto Timeraiser Art Auction – The Fermenting Cellar, Distillery District, Toronto, ON.
2009 - SNAP!09 Photography Auction – In support of ACT Toronto, National Ballet School, Toronto, ON.
2008 - What’s On The Table Art Auction – In support of The Stop Food Centre, Toronto, ON.
Revolutionizing Cultural Identity: Photography and the Changing Face of Immigration – Curated by Claude Baillargeon, The Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI. (Catalogue)
2007 - Belonging – Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills, Toronto, ON.
2006 - tween heart and mine – Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, ON.
Framework Foundation’s Timeraiser Art Auction – CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto, ON.
Displace – Ontario College of Art & Design Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Best of Exhibition – First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2005 - 10 days in July – Curated by Sally Frater, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition – Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON.
Go West 2005 – Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Merge Two – Lennox Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Merge One – Gallery One, Toronto, ON.
OCAD Annual Graduate Show – Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON.
Thirty Three – Silent Auction and Fund Raiser – Transit Space – Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON.
2004 - Custodio Studio / Family Album – Dorothy H. Hoover Library – Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON.
means/ends (spilled) – le. Gallery, Toronto, ON.
RESIDENCIES
2006/2007 - M.C. McCain Post-Graduate Photography Residency – Ontario College of Art & Design Toronto, ON.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2020 – City of St. Catharines Arts Award – Established Artist
Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant - Mid-Career Artists
2019 – Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2018 – Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant - Mid-Career Artists
2017 – Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2016 - Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2014 - Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2012 - Canada Council for the Arts Visual Artist Grant
2011 - Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant
2009 - Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant
2007 - Best of Exhibition Award- Belonging- Scarborough Arts Council
2005 - Murray Koffler Founding Chairman’s Purchase Award
Ontario College of Art & Design Medal - Photography
Nora E. Vaughan Award
2004 - Mark McCain Tuition Scholarship
2003 - OPSEU Award
PUBLICATIONS
2021 - Artist Feature – Sasitharan, Kirthana, This Ontario artist uses photography to 'feel more within' Portuguese culture than he ever has Rediscovering Culture, CBC News Toronto, November 2021.
Magazine Portfolio – Living Hyphen Magazine, Issue 2, Volume 1: Resistance Across Generations, July 2021
2020 - Exhibition Review – Gazzola, Bart, Floral Carpets in Steel Town – Hamilton Art’s & Letters, issue thirteen.2, 2020-21
2019 - Exhibition Review – Gazzola, Bart, Familial Motifs Bring Custodio’s Patterns To Life – The Sound, December 2019
2019 - Magazine Portfolio – Audet, Beth, Bridging a Cultural Divide – Niagara Life Magazine, November 2019
2018 - Magazine Portfolio – Winter Issue – Online edition – PhotoED. May 2018
2016 - Magazine – The Labour Issue – PREFIX PHOTO. May 2016.
2015 - Catalogue - Repair Centre – Curated and essay by Tara Bursey. July 2015.
2014 - Book – Camilleri, MaryAnn, Flash Forward Tenth, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON, 2014.
2013 - Exhibition Review – Bresler, Edie, Photograph Magazine online, December 2013
Magazine – Lunau, Kate, Shape Shifters (photo essay), Maclean’s Magazine, Toronto, ON, December 2013.
2011 - Book – History of Art in the Azores 1427-2000, Azores Regional Government, Azores, Portugal.
Book – Camilleri, MaryAnn, Flash Forward Emerging Photographers 2011, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON, 2011.
2009 - Exhibition Review – Schofield, Judee Richarsdon, Mosaic Murals, The Cambridge Times, January 27, 2009.
Exhibition Review – Reinsborugh, Laura, Art: Danny Custodio’s Azulejos, Not Far From The Tree Blog, February 17, 2009.
2008 - Book – Camilleri, MaryAnn, Flash Forward Emerging Photographers 2008, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON, 2008.
Catalogue – Revolutionizing Cultural Identity: Photography and the Changing Face of Immigration – Curated and essay by Claude Baillargeon.
Exhibition Review – Malczynski, Sarah, ‘Cultural Identity’ exhibit opens at OUAG, The News @ OU Campus News, Rochester, MI, March 11, 2008.
2006 - Magazine – Prefix Photo 14 – Book review photographs.
Book – Camilleri, MaryAnn, Carte Blanche: Photography 1, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON, 2006.
COLLECTIONS
City of Toronto Art Archives | Canadian Pension Plan Archives | City of St. Catharines Art Collection | Private Collections