Upcoming exhibitions
Skin, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (USA), 8 Jan – 14 Feb 2026.
Photorealism in Focus, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts (USA), 11 Feb – 31 Mar 2026.
BERNARDO TORRENS – Madrid, 1957
Solo exhibitions
2019 Skin and Soul, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (USA), 30 April – 8 June.
2014 Bernardo Torrens. The Three Graces and Other Works, Bernarducci-Meisel Gallery, New York (USA), 30 October – 29 November.
2011 Painting of Melania & Jesi. Bernarducci-Meisel Gallery, New York (USA), 13 January – 26 February.
2009 Bernardo Torrens, Beneath the Surface – Recent Painting, Bernarducci-Meisel Gallery, New York (USA), October.
2007 Bernardo Torrens, Galleria del Tasso, Bérgamo (Italy), October.
2005 Bernardo Torrens, Bernarducci-Meisel Gallery, New York, (USA), 01 – 29 October.
2004 Monumenti di Carne, Galleria Marieschi, Milán (Italy), 04 November – 05 February.
2002 La verità nascoste, Galleria Marieschi, Milán (Italy), May – June.
Bernardo Torrens, Centro Cultural Contemporáneo Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), August – October.
1997 Bernardo Torrens, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
1993 Bernardo Torrens, Galería Heller, Madrid (Spain) Bernardo Torrens, Meissner Gallery, New York (USA)
1992 Art Miami 92, Galería Heller, Miami (USA) Europ ́Art, Galería Heller, Ginebra (Switzerland)
Art Asia, Galería Heller, Hong Kong (China) 1991 Bernardo Torrens, Galería Heller, Madrid (Spain) 1988 Bernardo Torrens, Galería Heller, Madrid (Spain)
Group exhibition
2025 Summer Selections, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 19 Jun – 18 Jul.
Made You Look, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 28 Mar – 2 May.
2024 Summer Solstice, Meisel Gallery Oct- Nov
2023 The Great American Nude, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 5 Sept – 7 Oct.
Art Miami, Louis K Meisel Gallery. Dec.
Spring Selections, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 6 – 25 May.
Winter 23. Louis K Meisel Gallery 3-28 jan.
2022 Primavera, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 3 Mar – 30 Apr.
Art Miami. Louis K Meisel Gallery
Recent Acquisitions, Arnot Art Museum. Elmira, NY. September.
2021 Art Miami, Miami, Florida
Hamptons Art Fair, Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, Long Island.
2020 High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli & the Digital Age Photorealists, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, 14 Feb – 8 May.
2019 Reality Check: Photorealist Watercolors, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 27 Apr – 28 July 28.
Food for Thought, Curated by Susan P. Meisel, Louis K Meisel Gallery, February-April.
Panoramic Views, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, 3 Jan – 24 Feb.
Art Miami Louis K Meisel Gallery
2017 Photorealism & Verist Sculpture – Art Miami, Miami, FL, 6 – 12 Dec.
Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, 30 June – 8 Oct.
Size Doesn’t Matter curated by Susan P. Meisel, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 6 – 29 Apr.
Photorealism in the Desert, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, 10 Mar – 8 Apr.
The Europeans, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 10 Jan – 23 Feb.
2015 Here’s Looking Back at You: Images of Women from the ESKFF
Collection, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ. Summer Group Exhibition, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY. The Artist’s Gaze, Sirona Fine Art, Hallandale Beach, FL.
2012-17 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, traveling exhibition:
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 8 Dec 2012 – 10 Mar 2013;
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, 21 Mar – 9 June 9 2013;
Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, 30 July – 13 Oct 2013;
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK, 30 Nov – 30 March 2014;
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilboa, Spain, 6 Oct 2014 – 18 Jan 2015;
Kumu Art Museum of Estonia Tallinn, Estonia, 17 Mar – 12 June 2016;
Musée d’Ixelles Brussels, Belgium, 29 June – 25 Sept 2016;
Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, 15 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017;
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 25 Feb – 4 June 2017; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL, 13 July – 22 October 22 2017.
2013-14 Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Bestoff Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 8 November 2013 – 25 January 2014.
Photorealism Revisited (travelling exhibition); The Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (24 January – 21 April 2013); The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (1 June – 30 September 2013); MANA Contemporary Art Center, New Jersey, NJ (12 January – 18 April 2014).
2014 Art Silicon Valley San Francisco, San Mateo County Event Center, San Mateo, CA. 9 – 12 October.
Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 20 September – 30 November.
Photorealism in the Digital Age, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY. 7 November 2014 – 4 January 2015.
Hyperreal – More Than Pop!, Saarland Museum Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. 30 June – 12 October.
Valentine, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY. 14 February – 9 March.
Summer Sights, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 2012-13 Fotorealismus: Malen mit der Kamera, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. 7 December 2012 – 10 March 2013.
2013 Lots’a Naked Ladies…and One Guy: Sculpture & Two Dimensions, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY. 3 November – 20 December.
Beyond Realism, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada. 8 September – 2 October.
2011-12 Our Own Directions: The Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection, Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, MANA Contemporary Art Center, 18 September 2011 – Juanary 2012, Jersey (USA)
Stand and Still. Figure Paintings and Still Lifes, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, 08 December – 15 Juanary 2012, New York (USA)
2011 Photorealism, Persterer Contemporary Fine Art, Zurich (Switzerland) The New York Project – Paintings of the City by Artists from Around the World, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, 15 September – 29 October, New York (USA)
2010 Expansion – Gallery Group Show Premiering New Exhibition Space, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, 30 September – 13 November, New York (USA)
Re-Presenting the Nude – comisariada por John O’Hern, Evoke Contemporary Gallery, 02 – 30 July, Santa Fe – New Mexico (USA) Art Hamptons – The International Fine Art Faire, 09 – 11 July, Bridgehampton – New York (USA)
Art Chicago, Jonathan Novack Contemporary Art Gallery, 30 April – 03 May, Chicago (USA) Winter Show, Plus One Gallery , 02 – 27 February, Londres (UK)
REAL(ists), Ringling Museum, Ringling College of Art and Desing & Selby Galleries I and II, , 15 Juanary – 16 February, Sarasota – Florida (USA)
Summer Sweet, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York (USA)
2009 Einladung, Persterer Contemporary Fine Art, 5 – 20 December, Zürich (Switzerland)
Photorealism Paintings, The Arthur M. Berger Art Gallery at Manhattanville College, 11 November – 11 December, New York (USA)
Louis K. Meisel Gallery: 40 Years of Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel Gallery & Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, 5 – 28 November, New York (USA)
Figure 8: Painting & Sculpture, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, 11 June – 17 July, Nueva York (USA)
Small Paintings from Around the World, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, 5-28 February, New York (USA)
2008 Unforeseen Reflections, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, September, New York (USA)
SPF 20. Shades of Summer, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, June, New York (USA)
National Contemporary Realism. M. A. Doran Gallery, 8 September – 14 June, Oklahoma (USA)
Painted Faces, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, January, New York (USA)
2007 Photorealism Today, Plus One Gallery, May, Londres (UK)
Structure, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, March, New York (USA)
Art Bologna, January, Bolonia (Italy)
Iperrealisti… European Photorealist Group Exhibition, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, January, New York (USA)
2006 Summer Suite, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York (USA)
Human@rt, Centro Culturale Le Ciminiere, Catania (Italy)
Art Verona, October, Verona (Italy)
The figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985 – 2005, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, New York (USA)
2005 Tetralogía de la Natura: Terra, Galeria Marieschi, Milan, (Italy)
Arte Fiera Bologna, Galeria Marieschi, Bolonia (Italy)
Profumo di Donna, Galleria del Tasso, Bergamo (Italy)
Photorealism, Then and Now, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Ratón- Florida (USA)
Winter in Blue, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York (USA)
2004 Vertical Arrangements, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York (USA)
Art Miami 04, Galería Pelaires, Miami (USA)
Tetralogia della natura: Fuoco, Galleria Marieschi, Milan (Italy)
Arte Fiera Bologna, Galleria Marieschi, Bolonia (Italy)
ARCO 04, Galeria Pelaires, Febrero, Madrid (Spain)
Nudo, Galeria Forni, Bolonia (Italy)
Medioevo Prossimo Venturo, Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo (Italy)
Art Shangai, Galeria Pelaires, Shangai (China)
La Retoriche di Eros, Pinacoteca Civille Galileo Gattabriglia, Bondeno (Italy)
2003 Facing Reality, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (USA)
Art Colonia, Galeria Pelaires, Colonia (Germany)
2002 Arte Fiera Bologna, Galeria Marieschi, Bolonia (Italy)
ARCO 02, Galeria Pelaires, Madrid (Spain)
Nuovo Realismo Spagnolo, Galeria Marieschi, Milán (Italy)
2001 Tempus Fugit, Galeria Llucia Homs, Barcelona (Spain)
2000 Art Miami 2000, Sala Pelaires, Miami (USA)
ARCO 00, Sala Pelaires, Madrid (Spain)
De Spaanse Kunst, Wielemans-Huis, Brussels (Belgium)
1999 Art Miami 99, Sala Pelaires, Miami (USA)
ARCO 99, Sala Pelaires, Madrid (Spain)
Art Frankfurt 99, Sala Pelaires, Frankfurt (Germany)
Truth in Beauty, Beauty in Truth, Contemporary American Realism from the Seavest Collection, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida (USA)
1998 Art Miami 98, Sala Pelaires, Miami (USA)
ARCO 98, Sala Pelaires, Madrid (Spain)
Art Frankfurt 98, Sala Pelaires, Frankfurt (Germany)
Col.lectiva d’estiu, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Realidad y Apariencia, Galería Pelaires-Felanitx, Mallorca (Spain)
Ciento y… postalicas a Federico García Lorca, Museo Postal y Telegráfico, Exp. Itinerante (Spain)
Get Real. Contemporary American Realism from the Seavest
Collection, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham – North Carolina (USA)
1997 Art Miami 97, Sala Pelaires Miami (USA)
ARCO 97. Sala Pelaires, Miami (Spain)
Art Frankfurt 97, Sala Pelaires, Frankfurt (Germany)
Exposición inaugural , Galería Pelaires-Felanitx, Mallorca (Spain)
Realities II, The Art Alliance Gallery, New York (USA)
1996 Art Frankfurt 96, Sala Pelaires, Frankfurt (Germany)
Camins de la Realitat, Galería LLucia Homs, Barcelona (Spain)
Col.lectiva d’estiu, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, (Spain)
1995 Art Miami 95, Galería Heller, Miami (USA)
Realities I, The Art Alliance Gallery, New York (USA)
Col.lectiva d’estiu, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Representing Representation, Arnot Museum, Elmira – New York (USA)
Realismos, Galería Ansorena, Madrid (Spain)
1994 Art Miami 94, Galería Heller, Miami (USA)
Realismos, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid (Spain)
Art New York, Galería Heller, New York (USA)
Col.lectiva d’estiu, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
Four from Madrid, Contemporary Spanish Realism, Oglethorpe Museum, Atlanta (USA)
1993 Art Miami 93, Galeria Heller, Miami (USA)
Arij Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach – Florida (USA)
Art Alliance Gallery, Washington (USA)
1991 Colectiva de artistas de la galería, Galería Jorge Albero, Madrid (Spain)
1990 Artistas de la galería, Galería Heller, Madrid (Spain)
1989 Artistas Espanhóis contemporâneos, Galería Alfama, Lisboa (Portugal)
Décimo aniversario de Galería Mellado, Galería Mellado, El Escorial – Madrid (Spain)
Existencia. 14 maestros del realismo, Caja de San Fernando Sevilla (Spain)
1988 IV Cita con el dibujo, Galería Alfama, Madrid (Spain)
1987 III Cita con el dibujo, Galería Alfama, Madrid (Spain)
Colectiva de pequeño formato, Galería Sokoa, Madrid (Spain)
1986 II Cita con el dibujo, Galería Alfama, Madrid (Spain)
Colectiva de pequeño formato, Galería Sokoa, Madrid (Spain)
1985 Cinco jóvenes realismos de hoy, Galería Durán, Madrid (Spain)
1983 Galería Abside, La Coruña (Spain)
Collections
Andy and Erin Heiskell Collection
Colección Brosa
Colección del Congreso de los Diputados de España
Colección Ella Fontanals-Cisneros
Colección Malberti
Collezione Iannaccone
Dubi Shiff Art Collection
Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation
Ginny L. Williams Collection
Howard Tullman Collection
Laurence and Gina Rozenberg Collection
Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection
Seavest Collection
Seven Bridges Foundation
Sidney and Walda Besthoff Collection