Bernard Dumaine


Bernard Dumaine is a French artist best known for his work in photorealism and surrealism styles and for his background designs for television cartoons. He works in a variety of media, including oil paints, acrylic paints, graphite pencil, digital painting, digital collage, and video.

Life and work

He graduated in sculpture with a mention for drawing in 1977 in Angers. Many single and group exhibitions followed, both locally and internationally. His early works included drawings and oil paintings in the hyperrealist and surrealist styles.
He is currently working mostly in digital media, oil paints, and pencil. He is also doing Exquisite corpse works in collaboration with many artists internationally, and these collaborative works have recently been exhibited in galleries across France.
70 of these collaborations, drawings and paintings, were part of his personal exhibition "Dreaming Deep" in Healdsburg, California, in 2019.
Since of 2019, he uses artificial intelligence to create models which are then produced very faithfully in a traditional way in drawing or painting.

Group exhibitions

"Painting with pixels" - Cork Gallery, New York City, USA
"32 bit Connection" - Museumsquartier, Vienna - Austria
International Surrealist Show 2006 - Spencer, Iowa
"Chimeria" - Sedan, France 2009
Energy Art Salon 2010 - Chicago, USA
Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - São Paulo, Brazil "Toyart"

Collettiva Surrealista "Linguaggi d'Arte" - Floridia, Italy
"Imagining science" - University of Reading - Exquisite corpses with Sally Hunter and Immy Smith
"Symbols and archetypes" - Dedalus Studi, Teramo, Italy
"Luci e Ombre, Tribute to H.R. Giger" Teramo, Italy
"Book Launch and Psychedelic Art Gallery" The Bently Reserve, San Francisco, CA
"The resurrection of the Exquisite Corpse" Artworks, Richmond, VA, United States
"Metamorphosis", Ripattoni in Arte, Palazzo Saliceti, Teramo, Italy
"Grand Opening", Phaneros Gallery, Nevada City, CA, USA
"Phaneros Family Campout", Nevada City, CA, USA
" Mainstreet Art Gallery" Dordrecht, The Netherlands
"Surreal Salon 14" Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, USA
"Surreal Salon 15" Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, USA
"Art vibe Caminha", Caminha Museum, Portugal
"Salon Déclic 24", Centre Culturel Jacques Prévert, Aixe sur Vienne, France

Personal exhibitions

"Séries" - Galerie Rivaud, Poitiers, France
"Dreaming Deep" - Healdsburg, CA, USA
"Un autre monde" Galerie Art en Valois, Angoulême, France
"I get high with a little help from..AI" La grange aux arts, Champniers, France

Publications

  • selected works in Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century by John Grant and Audre VysniauskasSearch 02 in Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press
  • selected works in Metamorphosis
  • selected work in Imagine The Imagination : new visions of Surrealism
  • selected work in Visionary Art Yearbook
  • " Miximages " 80 Exquisite corpses in pencils
  • selected works in Anarchy Mag, Issue #70/71,#72/73,#74
  • selected works in Rebirth of the exquisite corpse by Anthony Mason
  • selected works in Collaborative Corpse Yearbook 2010-2011 by George Teseleanu
  • selected works in Eco-Ar-Te para o reencantamento do mundo by SATO, Michèle São Carlos: RiMa & Cuiabá: FAPEMAT, 2011
  • selected works in Artelibre - arte y libertad VI
  • selected works in Biomech Art by Martin de Diego Sádaba, 2013
  • selected works in Lithaire by Pierre Petiot, 2013
  • selected work in The Horror Magazine by Jeani Rector
  • selected work in The spindle's arc by J. Karl Bogartte
  • selected work in Insidieux by Pierre Petiot, 2014
  • selected work in Mona Lisa Reimagined by Erik Maell, 2015
  • selected works in Masters of Contemporary Art - Vol 2, 2016