Bernard Dumaine

Bernard Dumaine (born August 20, 1953, in Angoulême, France) 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 ( Maine et Loire, France ). 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 (2004)

"32 bit Connection" - Museumsquartier (MQ), Vienna - Austria (2004)

International Surrealist Show 2006 - Spencer, Iowa

"Chimeria" - Sedan, France 2009

Energy Art Salon 2010 - Chicago, USA

Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - São Paulo, Brazil "Toyart" (2011) Collettiva Surrealista "Linguaggi d'Arte" (2011) - Floridia, Italy

"Imagining science" - University of Reading (UK) (2013) - Exquisite corpses with Sally Hunter and Immy Smith

"Symbols and archetypes" - Dedalus Studi, Teramo, Italy (2013)

"Luci e Ombre, Tribute to H.R. Giger" Teramo, Italy (2015)

"Book Launch and Psychedelic Art Gallery" The Bently Reserve, San Francisco, CA (2015)

"The resurrection of the Exquisite Corpse" Artworks, Richmond, VA, United States (2015)

"Metamorphosis", Ripattoni in Arte, Palazzo Saliceti, Teramo, Italy (2016)

"Grand Opening", Phaneros Gallery, Nevada City, CA, USA (2017)

"Phaneros Family Campout", Nevada City, CA, USA (2017)

" Mainstreet Art Gallery" Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2019)

"Surreal Salon 14" Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, USA (2022)

"Surreal Salon 15" Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, USA (2023)

Personal exhibitions
"Séries" - Galerie Rivaud, Poitiers, France (2014)

"Dreaming Deep" - Healdsburg, CA, USA ( March 2019 )

"Un autre monde" Galerie Art en Valois, Angoulême, France ( November 2021 )

"I get high with a little help from..AI" La grange aux arts, Champniers, France (April 2023)

Publications

 * selected works in Renderosity: Digital Art for the 21st Century (2004, Collins Design) by John Grant and Audre Vysniauskas
 * Search 02 in Issue #1, Dark Recesses Press (Dark Recesses Press, 2005)
 * selected works in Metamorphosis (2006, Jon Beinart)
 * selected work in Imagine The Imagination : new visions of Surrealism (2009, nEgoist Sp.z.o.o.)
 * selected work in Visionary Art Yearbook  (2010, edited by Otto Rapp)
 * " Miximages " 80 Exquisite corpses in pencils (Blurb, 2010, ISBN 978-2-9538353-0-4 )
 * selected works in Anarchy Mag, Issue #70/71,#72/73,#74 (Freedom press, 2011–2013)
 * selected works in Rebirth of the exquisite corpse (2011, ISBN 978-1-4476-6398-0) by Anthony Mason
 * selected works in Collaborative Corpse Yearbook 2010-2011 (2011, Blurb) by George Teseleanu
 * selected works in Eco-Ar-Te para o reencantamento do mundo by SATO, Michèle (Org.) São Carlos: RiMa & Cuiabá: FAPEMAT, 2011
 * selected works in Artelibre - arte y libertad VI (Editorial Comuniter, S.L.,ISBN 978-84-15126-19-5, 2012)
 * selected works in Biomech Art by Martin de Diego Sádaba (Graffito books) ISBN 978-1909051027, 2013
 * selected works in Lithaire by Pierre Petiot (La Belle Inutile Editions) ISBN 978-1291616743, 2013
 * selected work in The Horror Magazine by Jeani Rector (Horror Zine, The /2013)ISBN 0615914217
 * selected work in The spindle's arc by J. Karl Bogartte (La Belle Inutile Éditions /2014) ISBN 978-1312058026
 * selected work in Insidieux by Pierre Petiot (La Belle Inutile Editions) ISBN 978-1291661989, 2014
 * selected work in Mona Lisa Reimagined by Erik Maell (Goff Books) ISBN 978-1-939621-26-9, 2015
 * selected works in Masters of Contemporary Art - Vol 2 (Art Galaxie) ISBN 978-989-20-7103-9, 2016