paintings

biography

born: 1954, Haarlem, The Netherlands
resides: Hilversum, The Netherlands
education: selftaught
 

Solo Exhibitions

2019    Museum JAN, Amstelveen, the Netherlands, Delicious Paintings

2016    Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York: Urban Works of Art, new photograpy
2016    Mark Peet Visser Gallery, the Netherlands, Urban Works of Art, new photograpy
2015    Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, USA
2015    Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, the Netherlands, still-life retrospective
2009    Plus One Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007    OK Harris Works of Art, New York, USA
2002    Gallery Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1997    -2002 Tjalf Sparnaay Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994    Smelik and Stokking Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands
1992    Siau Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991    Siau Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1990    Siau Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989    Society Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1988    Via Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands

 

Group Exhibitions:

2019    Louis K. Meisel Gallery NY, Art Philadelphia
2019    Louis K. Meisel Gallery NY, Food for Thought
2018    Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Pan Amsterdam
2018    Museum Gorcum
2018    Louis K. Meisel Gallery NY, Art Miami
2018    Museum Jan Cunen, The Netherlands, We Are Food
2017    Museum Nairac, The Netherlands, FOOD!
2017    Bernarducci Gallery Chelsea, New York,  New Precisionism
2017    Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, Photorealism in the Desert 
2017    Pan Amsterdam, anual artfair
2017    Bernarducci Gallery Chelsea
2017    Pulse Miami Beach
2017    Museum Kunsthal, Rotterdam 'Hyperrealisme, 50 jaar schilderkunst’, an international retrospective of the movement
2017    Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, Photorealism
2017    Bernarducci Meisel gallery, New York, 'Size doesn’t matter, groupshow'
2017    Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, 'The Europeans’
2016    Pan Amsterdam, anual art fair
2016   Nassau County Museum of Art, New York: a Feast for the Eyes
2016   Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, groupshow
2016   Musee d'Iselles, Brussels, Belgium, Photorealism. 50 years of Hyperrealism, retrospective of the movement
2016   Art Museum of Estonia, Estland, Photorealism. 50 years of Hyperrealism, retrospective of the movement
2016   Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
2016   Museum Osthaus, Hagen, Germany, Photorealism. 50 years of Hyperrealism, retrospective of the movement
2016   Realisme, Amsterdam, anual artfair
2015    Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, Art Miami, Miami, USA
2015   PAN Amsterdam, annual artfair
2015   Art Breda, Mark Peet Visser Gallery, anual artfair The Netherlands
2014   New Orleans Museum of Art, USA,  The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection
2014   Realisme, Amsterdam, anual artfair
2014    Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada, ‘Photorealism’
2014    Collectie Harms Rolde, PAN, Amsterdam
2014    Mark Peet Visser Gallery, ‘s Hertogenbosch ‘Realisme’
2014    Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, ‘Winter White’
2013    Collectie Harms Rolde, PAN Amsterdam
2013    Mark peet Visser Gallery, ‘s Hertogenbosch groupshow
2013    Bernarducci Meisel, New York, Groupshow
2013    Galerie Mark Peet Visser Art 2013 Utrecht
2013    Galerie Mark Peet Visser Realisme ’13 Amsterdam
2012    Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada ' Beyond Realism', a Photorealism  retrospective show
2012    Reinisch Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria ' Contemporary Stillive'
2012    OK Harris Works Of Art, New York, annual review of the season
2012    Plus One Gallery London, London's Calling
2012    Collectie Harm Rolde, Pan Amsterdam 
2011    Collectie Harms Rolde, PAN Amsterdam
2011    OK Harris Works Of Art, New York, annual review of the season
2011    PlusOne Gallery London,'Bon Apetit', groupshow
2011    PlusOne Gallery London, 10 years Anniversaryshow
2011    PlusOne Gallery London, Wintershow
2010    Scott Richards Contemporary Art, SanFransisco, 'Sweet Tooth', a groupshow
2010    Collectie Harms Rolde, PAN Amsterdam
2010    OK Harris Works of Art, New York : Review of the season, groupshow
2010    Collectie Harms Rolde 'Dutch Art Now', National Arts Club, New York
2010    Collectie Harms Rolde 'Realisme '10, Amsterdam
2010    Collectie Harms Rolde Artantique Utrecht groupshow
2009    PlusOne Gallery London Groupshow
2009    Collectie Harms Rolde Pan Amsterdam
2009    Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno - California: I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art
2009    PlusOne Gallery,groupsshow Exactitude V booklaunch, London
2009    Collectie Harms Rolde, Realisme 09
2008    OK Harris Works of Art, annual review of the season
2008    Collectie Harms Rolde PAN Amsterdam
2008    Collectie Harms Rolde, Realisme 08
2008    Plus One Gallery, London, Art London
2008    Collectie Harms Rolde, Open Art Fair
2007    Collectie Harms Rolde, PAN, Amstedam,
2007    PlusOne Gallery, Art London
2007    OK Harris Works ofArt, annual review of the season
2007    Hudson River Museum, New York, USA
2007    Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2007    Bernaducci. Meisel. Gallery, New York,USA
2007    Collectie Harms Rolde, Realisme 07, Amsterdam
2006    Collectie Harms Rolde, PAN, Amsterdam
2006    Plus One Gallery, Art Fair London
2006    Plus One Gallery, Exactitude III, London
2006    OK Harris, Annual review of the season, New York, USA
2006    Gallery Honingen, Gouda, The Netherlands
2006    Gallery Utrecht, Realisme 06, Amsterdam
2006    Gallery Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2005    Gallery Utrecht, Realisme 05, Amsterdam
2005    O.K. Harris, Annual review of the season, New York, USA
2005    OK Harris, Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA
2004    Gallery Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004    O.K. Harris, Annual review of the season, New York, USA
2003    Gallery Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2003    O.K. Harris, Annual review of the season, New York, USA
2002    O.K. Harris, Annual review of the season, New York, USA

 

Selected Collections:

 

Seven Bridges Museum, New York
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans, LA, USA
Mickey Huibregtsen Collection, Amsterdam/Bussum, The Netherlands
NCM Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jacob Gelt Dekker Collection, Curacao
Hetterschijt Collection, The Netherlands
Heineken Collection, Amsterdam
Joop en Janine van den Ende Collection
Anton Dreesman Collection, Miami
Collection Ivan- and Marilyn Karp, New York
Geilenkirchen Collection, Hong Kong
Vanhorick collection, The Netherlands
 

 

Bibliography:

 

selection 

Monography: Urban Works of Art, Tjalf Sparnaay,  urban photography, 2016

Christies Real Estate Magazine, 2018

Catalogue on Tjalf’s soloshow BernarducciMeisel Gallery New York 2015


Monography: Closer – The megarealism of Tjalf Sparnaay,  Waanders, Zwolle 2014
Monography: Tjalf Sparnaay Meg/posters by Art Unlimited, the Netherlands 2003
Exactitude III, Catalogue groupshow PlusOne Gallery 2006
Catalogue Hudson River Museum New York 'I Want Candy',
'Delicious Still Life Paintings' Bernarducci Meisel Gallery New York, Groupshow 'Culinary Arts; 3 - 26 May 2007
Catalogue 'Representation' Jenkins Johnson Gallery New York / San Fransico, Groupshow ', June 1 through july 6 2007
"Ronald" jubileumnummer Gaykrant aug 2008
Fine Arts and Antique, Hello Photorealism, Goodbye Popart, by Abby Cronin 2006
'Draadjesvlees", Wim Boevink in Trouw, januari 2008
PAN Amsterdam 2008 Catalogus afbeelding voorpagina
'Exactitude, Hyperrealistic Art Today', Thames and Hudson, London
Hip Holland, Image Books
Fine Arts MagazineTableau november 2009 interview door Ronald Kraayeveld
'Sweet Tooth', Catalogue exhibition at Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Fransisco 2010
'La Revista' 2012, Mexican Glossy
'Alta Gastronomic', 2012 Brazilian foodglossy
'rh+' Turkish , 2012 Art glossy
The Sun, 2012
Daily Telegraph, 2012
‘National Geographic Kids’, 2013
Huffington Post 2012 Arts and Culture
'Daphne's Diary', 2012 Dutch lifestylemagazine
‘Beyond Realism’, catalogue galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
‘Opus One’, 2013 Brazilian Art/Architecture glossy
‘Collect’, 2014
‘Palet’, 2014
‘Apocrifa’, Art Magazine, Mexico, 2015
‘Trouw’, daily newspaper The Netherlands, 2015
‘De Telegraaf’ daily newspaper The Netherlands, 2015
‘AD’, daily newspaper The Netherlands, 2015
‘Reformatorisch dagblad’, daily newspaper The Netherlands, 2015
Daily Mail online , 2015
‘Plus Magazine’, Dutch glossy 2015
‘The Observer’, 2015
‘American Art Collector’, 2015
‘USA 's ARTREPORT, 2015
Catalogue ‘PHOTOREALISM, 50 YEARS OF HYPERREALISTIC PAINTING,  by Dr. Otto Letze, 2016
‘BOUILLON’, 2016 Dutch quality magazine on food
‘BRUZZ’ 2016
‘Poets and Artists’ 2016 by Lorena Kloosterboer

Hundreds of online papers/magazine from all over the world

 

Radio/Television, selection:

 

selection:
2013    'TV Show' , Ivo Niehe, primetime filmportraits on public TV
2015    TV 'De Wereld Draait Door', public daily primetime talkshow
2015    TV Documentaire Getting Closer, broadcasted on public TV, AVRO's Kunstuur op NPO
2015    TV 'Koffietijd', RTL daily show
2015    TV Business Class RTL  weekly show
2015    TV 'NoordHolland Leeft', TVNH local TV
2015    Radio VPRO Public Radio 1, live, 'Nooit meer slapen'.
2015    Radio public culture programma 'Opium' op 4, live