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.
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