Exhibitions

Opening for Beyond Reality at Parrish Museum, October 14, 2024

Beyond Reality

Paintings and Drawings by Bertrand Meniel

October 14, 2024–March 30, 2025

Beyond Reality: Paintings and Drawings by Bertrand Meniel is a survey of paintings and drawings by the French photorealist who has been creating paintings of unprecedented detail since 1996. Using a variety of photographs of his chosen subject and advanced digital technologies, Bertrand Meniel (French, b. 1961) manipulates each image to perfection, focusing simultaneously on the foreground and background by combing hundreds of shots on a computer screen before painting them onto canvas.

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Past exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS‍ ‍

2025 Bertrand Meniel – Hot, High and Gritty, The Artist Book Foundation, North Adams, MA, July 7 – Sept. 19

2024 Beyond Reality: Paintings and Drawings by Bertrand Meniel, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, Oct. 14, 2024 – Apr. 6, 2025

2017 Bertrand Meniel, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 28 – Apr. 1

2011 Bertrand Meniel: New Cityscape Paintings, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 3 - Dec. 3

2002 Views of South Beach, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 3 – Mar. 23

1999 Premiere Exhibition in America, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jan. 30 – Feb. 27

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Rivaling Reality: 60 Years of Photorealism, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, Feb. 28 – Aug. 2

Photorealism in Focus, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Feb.11 – May 29

2025-26 Real, Surreal, and Photoreal, Nassau County Museum of Art, Nov. 22, 2025 – Mar. 8, 2026

2025 Photorealism in 2025, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 14 – Dec. 20

At Play: Artists & Entertainment, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, June 27 – Nov. 8

2024 Election Reflections, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 10 – Nov. 13

Summer Solstice, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, June 6 – July 19

2023-24 New York is Home, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 9, 2023 – Jan. 5, 2024

Beyond the Lens: Photorealist Perspectives on Looking, Seeing, and Painting, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, Sept. 8, 2023 –
Feb. 12, 2024

2023 Fall Selections, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 12 – Nov. 4

Spring Selections, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 6-25

2022 Recent Acquisitions, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Sept. 6 – Sept. 24

2021-22 Dusk till Dawn, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 10 – Feb. 24

2020 The Seasons, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, June 16 – March 1

2021 Art Miami, Miami, FL, 2021

2020 American Landscapes, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jan 8 – Feb 22

High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli & the Digital Age Photorealists, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, Feb. 14 – May 8

Photorealism in 2020: A Look Forward, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 7 – June 13

2019-20 The Seasons, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, Nov. 16, 2019 – Mar. 1, 2020

2019 Selected Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jun 13 – Jul 19

Reality Check: Photorealist Watercolors, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 27 – July 28

Food for Thought: A Selection of Small Works, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb 28 – Mar 30

Panoramic Views, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Jan 4 – Feb 24

2018-19 Every Picture Tells a Story, Parrish Museum of Art, Watermill, NY, Nov. 11, 2018 – Oct. 6, 2019

2018 Reflections, Ripples + Shadows, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Nov 15 – Dec 22

Pavement to Pavement, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Jan 4 – Feb 24

2017-18 From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today, traveling exhibition: Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY August 6, 2017 –
Jan. 21, 2018; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI, April 21 – September 12, 2018

2017 Photorealism in the Desert, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, March 10- April 8

The Europeans, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, January 10 – February 23

2016 Photorealist Urban Landscapes, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 3 – December 17

2014-15 Photorealism: The Sydney & Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 8, 2014 – Jan. 25, 2015

2013-14 Photorealism Revisited, traveling exhibition: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK – Jan. 24 – Apr. 21; Butler Institute
of Art, Youngstown, OH – Jun. 1 – Sept. 30; MANA Contemporary, New Jersey, NJ – Jan. 12 - Apr. 18, 2014

Summer Sights, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jun.6–Jul. 20

2012-17 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, traveling exhibition: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany – Dec. 8, 2012 – Mar. 10, 2013; Museo
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain – Mar. 21 – Jun. 9, 2013; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany – Jun. 30 – Oct. 13, 2013; Birmingham Museum & Art
Gallery, Birmingham, UK – Nov. 30, 2013 – Mar. 30, 2014; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, Oct. 7, 2014 – Jan. 19, 2015; Kumu Art Museum of
Estonia Tallinn, Estonia – Mar. 17 – Jun. 12, 2016; Musée d’lxelles Brüssel, Belgium, Jun. 29 – Sep. 25, 2016; Osthaus Museum Hagen, Germany – Oct. 15, 2016 –
Jan. 8, 2017; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Feb. 25 – Jun. 4, 2017; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, July 13 – Oct. 22, 2017

2012 Au-delà Du Réel = Beyond Realism, Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 8 – Oct. 2

2011 Our Own Directions: The Louis K. & Susan P. Meisel Collection, Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Art Center, Jersey City, NJ, Sept. 18, 2011 – Jan.

2012 Signs, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 10 – Mar. 10

The New York Project: Paintings of the City by Artists from Around the World, Bernarducci Merisel Gallery, New York, NY, Sept. 15 – Oct. 29

2010 Expansion, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Sept. 30 – Nov. 13

Hyperréalisme, Galerie Rive Gauche – Marcel Strouk, Paris, France, Oct. 26 – Nov. 13

2009 The City: Day & Night, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Apr. 4 – Jul. 17

Photorealism: A Closer Look, Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Mar. 31 – May. 30

American Dream, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, Poland, Jul. 2 – Oct. 4

New Photo-Realism Painting in the Digital Age, Arthur M. Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY – Nov. 11 – Dec. 11

40 Years: Anniversary of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Louis K. Meisel Gallery & Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – Nov. 1 – Dec. 20

2007 Group Show, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY – May. 5 – Jun. 30

Iperrealisti: The European Photorealists, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jan. 25 – Feb. 24

2006 Big Urban Landscape, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Apr. 29 – Jul. 21

2005 Photorealism, Then and Now, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Dec. 8 – Jan. 9, 2006

2004 Some Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 8 – 27

New American Realism and Photorealism, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton, NY, Nov. 5 – 27

Saraceno, Gregory, Ph.D. The Prague Project, Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY, Oct. 1 – Mar. 2

2003 Kaleidoscopes, Savannah Collages of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Mar. 28 – May. 19

Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, Apr. 5 – Jun. 29

Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY, Sept. 14 – Feb. 15

2002 Views of South Beach, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 21 – Mar. 23

Photorealism at the Millennium: New Generation Photorealists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 5 – Nov. 30

Historic Sites and Structures, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 19, 2002 – Jan. 25, 2003

2001 Near & Far: Perspective and Structure, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Mar. 3-31

2000 The Photorealists, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, Jul. 22 – Sept. 10

1999 Photorealism – The Next Generation, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 6-27

1998 Photorealism, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, Feb. 12 – Mar. 7

1997 The New Photorealists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 6-20 & Jan. 3-31