SOLO EXHIBITIONS | SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | SELECTED BOOKS | SELECTED CATALOGS | SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART (Interview & papers) | OBITUARY


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1971 - French & Co., New York, NY

1974 - French & Co., New York, NY

1974 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1976 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1976 - Reed College, Portland, OR

1977 - Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN

1979 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1983 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1985 - "Realism: Ron Kleemann," Bay City Council on the Arts, MI, June

1992 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1993 - "New York Air," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1997 - “30 Years of Icons,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February

2004-05 - “The NASCAR Paintings,” Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY, December 4 – January 14

2005 - Ron Kleemann – "The Nascar Paintings," The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, May 8 – Aug 28

2008 - Ron Kleemann - Patrice Trigano Gallery, . Paris, France, April 16 - May 17, 2008



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (TOP)

1961 - "San Francisco Art Annual," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1970 - Gallery 99, Bay Harbor Islands, FL

1971 - "Art Around the Automobile," Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1971 - French & Co., New York, NY

1971 -"New Realism," Roland Gibson Gallery, State University at Potsdam, NY

1971 -"Radical Realism," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1971 - Rider College, Trenton, NJ

1971 - "The Shape of Realism," Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1972 - Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

1972 -"L'Hyperréalistes américains," Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France

1972 -"Painting and Sculpture Today, 1972," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1972 -"Phases of the New Realism," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

1972 -"Realism Now," New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

1972 -"Sharp-Focus Realism," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY

1972 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1972 - Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY

1973 - "Grand Maitres Hyperréalistes Américains", Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France

1973 -"Realism Now," Katonah Gallery, New York, NY

1973 - Shorewood Graphics Gallery, New York, NY

1973 - "The Super-Realist Vision," DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA

1973-74 -"Hyperréalisme," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium

1973-78
"Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection," Traveling Exhibition: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY;
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY;
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO;
University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC;
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL;
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS;
Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Tulane University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA;
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1974 - "Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek," Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1974 -"Art 5`74," Basel, Switzerland, June 19-24

1974 -"11th Tokyo Biennale,`74," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum;
Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Perfectual Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

1974 - Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, France

1974 - Moos Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1974 - "Aspects of Realism," Moos Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1974 - "New Photo-Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1974 - "New Realism Revisited," Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University at Potsdam, NY

1974 - "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1974," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1974 - Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA

1974 - Taft Museum & Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

1974 - "38th Annual Midyear Show," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, June 30 - September 2

1974 - "25 Years of Janis: Part II," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY

1975 - Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS

1975 -"The New Realism: Rip-Off or Reality?" Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

1975 - New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

1975 - "Photo-Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1975 -"Watercolors and Drawings - American Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1975-76
"Photo Realism, American Painting and Prints," New Zealand Traveling Exhibition: Barrington Gallery, Auckland;
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, National Art Gallery, Wellington;
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton

1976 - "Realism (Paintings and Drawings)," Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1976 - "3e foire internationale d'art contemporain,” (FIAC) Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16-24

1976 -"Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC

1976-78
"Aspects of Realism," Traveling Exhibition Sponsored by Rothman's of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd.: The Gallery/Stratford, Ontario, 6/8-9/5/76;
Vancouver Centennial Museum, British Columbia, 9/16-10/17/76; Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta, 10/29-11/28/76;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; 12/10/76-1/9/77; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, 1/20-2/20/77; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, 3/1-4/1/77;
Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, 4/14 5/14/77; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 5/26-6/26/77;
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, 7/7-8/7/77; Dalhousie University Museum and Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 8/18-9/18/77;
Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario, 9/29-10/23/77; London Public Library and Art Museum, and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, 11/3-11/27/77; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, 12/8/77-1/8/78

1977 - "Breaking the Picture Plane," Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ, October 7 - 29

1977 - Chinetti Gallery, New York, NY

1977 - Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany

1977 - Hanson-Cowles Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

1977 - Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ

1977 - Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS

1977 - "New in the `70s," University Art Museum, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX

1977 - "New Realism," Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

1977 - "Photo-Realists," Shore Gallery, Boston, MA

1977 - "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC

1977 - "Works on Paper II," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1977-78
"Illusion and Reality," Australian Traveling Exhibition: Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth;
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery, Hobart
"Art and the Automobile," Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, January 12 – March 12

1978 - "Cityscape`78," Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK

1978 - Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI

1978 - Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ

1978 - Palm Springs Art Fair, CA

1978 - "Photo-Realist Printmaking," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NYC

1978 - "Photo-Realism and Abstract Illusionism," The Arts & Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, PA

1978 - Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

1978 - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

1978 - "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC

1978 -"With a Little Help from Our Friends," Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

1979 - "Selections of Photo-Realist Paintings from New York City Galleries," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, St. Francis College, Loretto, PA, May 12 - July 8

1979 - "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC

1980 - New York Art Fair, New York, NY

1980 - "Photo Realism," Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX

1980-81
“Assignment Aviation - The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection,” The National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1981-82
Champions: Heroes of American Sport,” The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution of Art, Washington, DC, June 22 - September 7; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, March 19 - June 27, 1982

1981 - "Medicine and Science in American Art," Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, February 7 - March 29; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 10 - June 30

1981 - "Cityscapes," The Graphics Gallery, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, July - August

1981 - "Seven Photorealists From New York Collections," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, October 6 - November 8

1981-83
"Contemporary American Realism Since 1960," Traveling Exhibition: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 9/18-12/13/81;
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 2/1-3/28/82; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 5/6-7/25/82; USICA Sponsored Tour: Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 9/10-10/24/82; Sales de Exposciones, Madrid, Spain, 11/17/82- 1/8/83; Germanishes National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany, 2/11-4/10/83

1981-82
"Auto Art," Auto Art, Inc., Interlaken Inn, Lakeland, CT, June 1981 - June 1982

1981-82
"Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism," Traveling Exhibition: San Antonio Museum of Art, TX, March 1 – April 26, 1981; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, May 19 – June 28; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ, July 19 – August 26; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, October 24 – January 3, 1982, catalog.

1981-83
"American Super Realism From the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Traveling Exhibition: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, 9/1-11/1/81;
The Art Center, Inc., South Bend, IN, 11/22/81-1/3/82; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, 1/16- 2/28/82;
Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, NH, 3/19-5/2/82; DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, 5/9- 6/20/82;
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 7/6-8/15/82; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL, 11/4/83-12/7/83

1982 - California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, CA

1982 - "An Appreciation of Realism,” Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, February 13 - April 11

1982 - "Photographs by the Photorealists," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, Jan. 8-31; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, Feb. 11-28; Ball State Museum, Muncie, IN, March 7-31

1982 - "Photo-Realisme ‘Dix Ans Apres’," Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France, January 13 - March 6

1982 -"Louis K. Meisel Gallery at Galerie Isy Brachot," Brussels, Belgium,
April 22 - May 22

1982 - “The Rebounding Surface,” Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, August 6 - September 26

1983-85
"Assignment: Aviation-The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection," Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition:
Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, AK, 1/1-1/31/83; Denver Museum of Natural History, CO, 7/23-9/4; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/24-11/6;
Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, GA, 11/26/83-1/8/84; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, 1/28-3/11; The Dane G. Hanson Memorial Museum, Logan, KS, 3/31-5/13;
Longview Museum & Art Center, TX, 6/2-7/15; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO 8/4-9/16; Springfield Art Museum, MO, 10/6-11/18;
Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, 12/8/84-3/24/85; Historical & Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, TX, 4/13-5/26; Amarillo Art Center, TX, 6/15-7/28;
Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL, 10/19-12/1

1983 - “Free Wheeling,” Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ, March 16 - April 24

1983 - "The American Photorealists," Fischer Fine Art, London, England, May 6 - June 3

1983 - Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, September 16 - October 8; The University of Wisconsin, October 18 - November 12

1983 - "10th Anniversary Exhibition," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 8-29

1983-85
Guggenheim Recentralization Program, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, October 13, 1983 - October 13, 1985

1984 - Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY, January

1984 - "Important Recent Acquisitions and New Directions," Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, IL, March 16 - May 20

1984 - "Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary Art," The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, May 19 - June 17

1984 - "America Seen," Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX, June 28 - September 4

1984 - “Aspects of Realism,” Walter Moos Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Sept. 15 - Oct. 15

1985 - "Park Synagogue Art Festival X," Cleveland, OH, April 27-30

1985 - "Starved for Art," School of Visual Art, New York, NY, June 3-28

1985 - "American Realism - The Precise Image," Traveling Exhibition, Japan The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, July 25 - August 19;
The Daimura Museum, Osaka, October 9 - 28; Yokohama Takashimaya November 7 - 12 (Catalog)

1985-87

"American Realism - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection," Traveling Exhibition: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, 11/7/85-1/12/86;
DeCordova & Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, 2/13-4/6/86; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 7/31-9/21/86;
Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 10/23-12/14/86; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 1/15-3/8/87;
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 4/9-5/31/87; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 7/26-9/20/87

1987-88

"Art & The Law," Sponsored by West Publishing Co., Saint Paul, MN, Traveling Exhibition: Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, 8/3/87 - 8/14/87;
Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO, 8/25/87 - 9/27/87; Muscarelle Art Museum, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 11/21/87 - 1/17/88;
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, 2/5/88 - 4/3/88

1987 -"Realism: The New Generation," R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL, June 5 - July 13

1987 - "The Urban Landscape," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov.

1988 - "Art at the Armory," 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY, January 27-31

1988 - "20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo) - Artists & Movements From Our First Two Decades," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 5-26

1989 - "New York: City By Day/City By Night," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, February 2 - March 5

1989-90
"Trains and Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting," Traveling Exhibition: Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY, 5/24-6/17/89;
Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY, 6/25-8/31/89; National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 9/26-12/15/89;
Evansville Museum of Arts, IN, 1/14/90-3/4/90; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, 3/18-5/20/90

1990 - "Spring/Summer Show," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1990 - "Amerikansk Fotorealism," Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 20 - November 25

1991 - 92
1991 -  "Photorealism: The Early Years," Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY, Sept. 3 - Dec. 28, catalog

1991 - "In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, April 15 - July 29, catalog

1991 - "Op and Pop: Prints from the Permanent Collection," DeCordova and Dana Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, June 22 - September 2

1991 - "Motion as Metaphor - The Automobile in Art," Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA, April 13 - June 16

1991 - "Traffic Jam - The Automobile in Art," New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, September 15 - October 27, (cat.).

1991-92 - "Photo-Realism: Revisited," Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 22, 1991 - January 19, 1992

1992 - "New York: City By Day/City By Night III," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, February 11 - March 7

1992 - "Photorealism For Nashville Collections," Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, June 13-21

1992 - "Fun & Games," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 12 - October 3

1993 - 98
1993 - "Really, Real, Realism Show," Jack Wright Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, January 8-29

1993 - "Photorealism Since 1980," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 23 -
June 24

1994 - "An American Vision: Photorealism Paintings," Margulies Taplin Gallery Boca Raton, FL, March 31 - April 23

1994 - "Realism In Our Time," Broden Gallery Ltd., Madison, WI, April 22 - May 20

1994 - “Review of the Season,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY summer 1995-97
“Art from the Driver’s Seat: Americans and Their Cars,” Traveling Exhibition: Boise Art Museum, Boise ID, 9/5/95 - 10/22/95;
Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois State University, Charleston, IL, 11/5/95 - 12/31/95; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, 3/31/96 - 5/19/96;
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, 8/18/96 - 12/15/96; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, 3/16/97 - 5/4/97; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, 5/25/97 - 7/13/97;
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 8/3/97 - 9/28/97; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, 10/12/97 - 11/30/97

1996 - “Paper Work”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 3 - 24

1996 - “Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms)”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 2 - 23

1997 - “Photorealism”, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, Jan. 9-31
“Realism in 20th Century American Painting”, The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME, August 16 – September 30, catalog
“Photorealists”, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA October 2 - November 25

1998 - “Photorealism”, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, February 12 – March 7

1998 - "25th Anniversary Exhibition: Major Works by the Photorealists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, 4 April-16 May.

1999-00
“Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century”, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, May 29 – June 29, 1999;
International Tour September 1999 – September 2000: The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; The Painting Institute, Shanghai, China;
The Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China; The CIPTA Gallery, Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; The Metropolitan Museum, Manila, The Philippines;
The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore

2000 - 2010

2000 - "The Photorealists", Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, 22 July - 10 September

2001 - "Illusion and Reality: Hyper-Realism Painting in Korea and America," Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea, March 3 - April 29

2001 - "This is America: American Photorealists," Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark, September 1 - November 25

2002
"Photorealism: The Liff Collection," Naples Museum of Art, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL, Jan. 25 - June 2

2002 - "Urban Landscapes" Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 2-23

2002 - “Photorealism at the Millennium: Vintage Photorealists,” Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 5-26
“Culture Shock,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, November 20 – February 3

2003 - “Iperrealisti,” Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, April 5 – June 29

2003-04
“Facing Reality: The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY, September 14 – February 15

2004 - “Get Real: Photorealist Prints from the James W. Hyams Collection,” Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, January 23 – March 5

2004 - “Photorealism: Painting and Sculpture,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, January 25 – April 25

2004 - "Some Photorealism," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY  May 8 – 27

2004 - “New American Realism and Photorealism,” Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton, NY, November 5-27,

2004-05
“American Photorealism,” traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art, April 4 – May 16; Iwaki City Art Museum, May 23 – July 4;
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, July 16 – September 5; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, September 12 – November 7;
Also to Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, Dec. 12, 2004 – March 27, 2005

2004-05
“An American Odyssey 1945-1980 (Debating Modernism),” traveling exhibition, Spain: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 13 – May 30;
Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, June 10 – July 31; Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, September 2 – October 2;
Also to Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY, October 24, 2004 – January 15, 2005

2005
"Cars and Ketchup: Photorealist Images of the American Landscape", Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, NY April 2 - June 19, 2005.

2005
“Doubletake: Photorealism From The 1960’s & 1970’s”, The Rose Art Museum Of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, May 19 – July 31, 2005

2005-06
“Photorealism, Then and Now”, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Dec 8- Jan 9

2007-08
Icones Americaines”, Galerie Rive Gauche-Marcel Strouk, Paris, France, November 30-January 22

2009

"Picturing America, Photorealism in the 1970's ", Deutsche-Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany, March 6, 2009 - May 10, 2009

2009
"
American Dream", National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, Poland, July 2, 2009 - October 4, 2009

2010
"
E X P A N S I O N ", Bernarducci-Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 30, 2010 - November 13, 2010

2010
"
HYPERREALISME", Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, France , October 26, 2010 - November 13, 2010


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (Top)

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Rider College, Trenton, NJ
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Virlane Foundation and the K&B Corporation Collections, New Orleans, LA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Utrecht Museum, The Netherlands
Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hofstra Museum of Art, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
SUNY Plattsburgh Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Dwight Frederick Boyden Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, MD
South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
James Madison University, School of Art and Art History, Harrisonburg, VA
Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY
SUNY New Paltz, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Top)

1972
Kramer, Hilton. "And Now; Pop Art: Phase II," The New York Times, January 16

1972
Pozzi, Lucio. "Super Realisti U.S.A.," Bolaffiarte, No.18, March, pp.54-63

1972
Ratcliff, Carter. "New York Letter," Art International, Vol.XVI/3, March, pp.28-29

1972
Lerman, Leo. "Sharp Focus Realism," Mademoiselle Magazine, March 19, pp.170-173

1972
Karp, Ivan. "Rent is the Only Reality, or the Hotel Instead of the Hymn," Arts Magazine, December, pp.47-51

1972
Lista, Giovanni. "Iperrealisti Americani," NAC, Milan, Italy, No.12, December, pp.24-25

1972-73
Wolmer, Denise. "In the Galleries," Arts Magazine, March 1972, p.57; Art Now Gallery Guide, September 1973, pp.1-3; Arts Magazine, December 1973, p.75

1973
"L'Hyperréalisme Américain," Le Monde de Grandes Musiques, No.2, March-April, pp.4, 56-57

1973
"Realism Now," Patent Trader, May 26, p.7A

1973
Beardsall, Judy. "Stuart M. Speiser Photorealist Collection," Art Gallery Magazine, Vol. XVII, No.1, October, pp.5, 29-34

1973
Bell, Jane. "Stuart M. Speiser Collection," Arts Magazine, December, p.57

1973
"Lettre de Suisse," Art International/Lugano Review, XVII/10, December, p.46

1974
"Flowers, Planes and Landscapes in New Art Exhibits," Saturday Times-Union, January 5

1974
"Gallery Notes," Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Bulletin, Vol.39, No.5, January

1974
"Walsh, Sally. "Paintings That Look Like Photos," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, January 17

1974
Chase, Linda. "The Connotation of Denotation," Arts Magazine, February, pp.38-41, Illustration

1974
Hartman, Rose. "In and Around," The Soho Weekly News, April 4, p.4

1974
Hartman, Rose. "In and Around," The Soho Weekly News, April 18, p.4

1974
"May 1974 Events," Allentown Art Museum Bulletin, May

1974
Ries, Martin. "Ron Kleemann," Arts Magazine, June, p.65

1974
Zabel, Joe. "Realistic Works Predominate in 1974 Mid Year," The Jamber, Youngstown State University, OH, July 11, p.7

1975
Mikotajuk, Andrea. "American Realists at Louis K. Meisel Gallery," Arts Magazine, January 23, pp.19-20

1975
"Photo-Realism Exhibit Is Opening at Paine Sunday," Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, April 17, Illustration

1975
"Photo-Realists at Paine," Post Crescent View Magazine, Appleton, WI, April 27, pp.5-6

1975
"Photo-Realism Flies High at Paine," Milwaukee Journal, May

1976
Reed College Bulletin, January

1976
Artweek, February 7

1976
Hacker, Werner. "Motoren and Mull," Feuilleton, February 10, 1976
Belden, Dorothy. "Realism Exaggerated in Ulrich Art Exhibition," Wichita Eagle, March, Lifestyle Page

1976
Chase, Linda. "Photo-Realism: Post Modernist Illusionism," Art International, Vol. XX No.3-4, March-April, pp.14-27

1976
Glasser, Penelope. "Aspects of Realism at Stratford," Art Magazine, (Toronto), Summer, Vol.7, No.28, p.22-29

1976
Olson, Roberta J.M. "Fall ABC: Auctions, Bidders and Collecting," The SoHo Weekly News, p.17

1976
"SoHo," British Broadcasting Company, Fall

1976
K.M. "Realism," New Art Examiner, November

1977
Edelson, Elihu. "New Realism at Museum Arouses Mixed Feelings," Jacksonville Journal, FL, February

1977
"Official 500 Artist Will Bring Exhibit to Downtown Gallery," American Fletcherline, Vol.6, No.8, April 29, p.1

1977
Garmel, Marion Simon. "Sport Art The Coming Thing," The Indianapolis News, April 30, p.4, Ron Kleemann (Page 11)

1977
"Kleemann Exhibit Opens At IMA Downtown Gallery," Indianapolis Sunday Star, May 1, p.13

1977
Mannweiler, David. "Doesn't Look Like Indy," The News, May 6, p.25

1977
Hughes, Jonathan. "World's Most Exclusive Club," Indianapolis 500 Official 1977 Program, May, pp.21,23,24

1977
Garmel, Marion Simon. "More Real Than A Photo, Artist Says," The Indianapolis News, May 14, p.4

1977
"Ron Kleemann: Indy Artist," Indianapolis 500 Official 1977 Program, May, p.39

1977
Oppenheimer, Dan. "SoHo Portraits The Indy 500," The SoHo Weekly News, Vol.4, No.36, June 9-15, p.10

1977
Clay, Nancy. "Native Artist has Big Plans for Bay City Rollers Painting," The Bay City Times, August 24, p.9A

1977
Groom, Gloria. "Modern Art Exhibit Gives A Nice Surprise," The Citizen, Austin, TX, August

1977
"Prints Exhibition for D'port," The Examiner, September 7

1977
R.S. "The Museum of Modern Art," Art in America, September 10, pp.93-96

1977
Markus, Robert. "Sport Art Enters Chicago Scene," Chicago Tribune, October 20

1977
Van Dyck, Dave. "Sports Art, The New Wave?," Chicago Sun-Times, October 20

1978
"SA Crowds See Fine Arts Exhibition," The News, January 9

1978
Bongard, Willie. Art Aktuell, Cologne, West Germany, April

1978
"A.J. Foyt's Fourth Win - A Trackside Chronicle," Indianapolis 500 Official 1978 Program, May

1978
Indianapolis 500 Official 1978 Program, May, cover illustration, pp.28, 29, 55

1978
"Ron Kleemann, Official 500 Artist," Indianapolis 500 Official 1978 Program, May, p.72

1978
Harris, Helen. "Art and Antiques: The New York Realists," Town and Country, October, pp.242,244,246-247

1978
Richard, Paul. "New Smithsonian Art: From `the Sublime' to Photo Realism," Washington Post, November 30, p.G21

1978
Jensen, Dean. "Super-Realism Proves A Super Bore," The Milwaukee Sentinel,
December 1

1978
"Photo Journalism and Photo Realism," Milwaukee Journal, December 10

1980
"Contemporary & Modern Art to be Offered June 10th at Christie's East," Antiques & The Arts Weekly, June 6, p.38

1980
Meisel, Louis K. "Fifteen Years of Photo-Realism," Horizon, November, p.52, illustration

1981
Yoskowitz, Robert. "Photos by the Photorealists," Arts, Mar.,p.25

1981
Karmel, Pepe. "Photographs by the Photorealists," Art in America, May, p.10

1981
Forgey, Benjamin. "Aviation Art at Home in its Hangar," The Washington Review, May 21

1981
"Photo-Realist Aviation Art," Air Force Magazine, September, illustration, p.160

1981
Perreault, John. "Photorealing in the Years," The SoHo Weekly News, October 20, p.64

1981
Blass, Ruth. "The Illusion of Reality," Art News, December, p.79

1982
"New York a Bruxelles et Vice-Versa," Libre Belgique, Brussels Belgium, May 7, Ron Kleemann (Page 12)

1982
Gillemon, Daniele. "Une Galerie Bruxelloise a l'heure New-Yorkaise," Le Soir, Brussels, Belgium, May 12

1982
Morera, Daniela. "Fotorealismo," Italian Vogue, October, pp.634-639,700, Illustration

1983
Mullaly, Terence. "Icy Reflections of Life," London Daily Telegraph

1983
Hoffman, Donald. "At the Morgan," Kansas City Star, Sunday, September 25

1984
Hickey, Dave. "Will The Real Realism Please Stand Up?" Fort Worth Star-Telegram, TX, August 12, p.10F

1985
Campbell-Ewald Advertising: 1986 Corvette Catalog, 2-page spread

1985
Stains, Laurence R. "Hot Cars," The Christian Science Monitor, April 15, p.34 home forum

1985
McGee, Gay. "Noted N.Y Artist Brings Work Back Home," Bay City Times, MI, June 6

1987
Gould, John. "Clang! Clang! Clang!" The Christian Science Monitor, February 6, p.34-home forum, illustration

1987
Ligocki, Gordon. "Photorealism Holds on to 1980's Audiences," The Times, Hammond, IN, July 3, p.B-7

1990
Raynor, Vivien. "By Train and Plane and, Oh Yes, the Car," The New York Times, April 29, p.20-N.J.

1990
Grimaldi, Mary Moore. "Trains and Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting," Dialogue, Evansville, IL, May/June, p.30

1991
Schwartz, Constance. "In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism," Sunstorm, April, illus. p. 28

1991
Parks, Steve. "The Grand Museum Tour," Newsday (Nassau Edition-Part II), May 3, pp. 84-85, 100, ill.

1991
Raynor, Vivien. "Seeing Beauty or Problems," The New York Times, October 6, p. 14 (N.J.)

1991
Watkins, Eileen. "Art," The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., October 11, p. 49

1991
"Traffic Jam - The Image of the Automobile in American Art," New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, fall calendar, pp. 1, 3

1993
Cooper, James F. "Who's Afraid of Photorealism?" (Book Review), American Arts Quarterly, Summer/Autumn, pp. 31-33 ill.

1997
“The Photorealists,” Savannah College of Art and Design-The Magazine, Fall/Winter 1997, pp. 33-34, p. 33 ill.

2001
“Amerikanske Ikoner,” Samvirke, Albertslund, Denmark, August 28, ill.

2001
Bak, Line Helena. “Amerikansk Skønhed,” Morganvisen Jyllands-Posten, Viby, Denmark, September 1, ill.

2001
Nørlyng, Ole. “Biler, Baller & Boopsy,” Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 5, ill.

2001
Grubach, Carsten B. “Det er Altså Også Amerika,” Jydske Vestkysten, Haderslev, Denmark, September 22, ill.

2004
Rose, Barbara. “La Odisea Americana: Existe el Arte Estadounidense?” ABC Cultural, Madrid, Spain, April 17, p. 25 ill.

2004
Bueno, Carlos. “El Mensaje de los Pinceles Yanquis en la Guerra Fría,” La Gaceta, Spain, April 17, p. 25 ill.



SELECTED BOOKS (Top)

1973
Brachot, Isy. Hyperréalisme, Imprimeries F. Van Buggenhoudt, S.A., Brussels, Belgium

1973
Sager, Peter. Neue Formen des Realismus, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne

1975
Battcock, Gregory. Super Realism, A Critical Anthology, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York

1975
Chase, Linda. Hyperrealism, Rizzoli, Inc., New York

1975
Kultermann, Udo. Neue Formen des Bildes, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Tubingen, West Germany

1979
Seeman, Helene Zucker; Siegfried, Alanna. SoHo, Neal-Schuman, NY

1979
Bryan, C.D.B. The National Air & Space Museum, Harry N. Abrams, New York, p.309, illustration

1978
Krantz, Les. The New York Review of Art, The Krantz Co., New York

1980
Lindey, Christine. Superrealist Painting and Sculpture, William Morrow Company, Inc., New York

1980
Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism, Harry N. Abrams, New York

1980
Gerdts, William H. The Art of Healing, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, p.110

1983
Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, The Krantz Co., New York, pp.74 & 99, illustration

1985
Krantz, Les. American Art Galleries, Facts on File Publications, New York, NY, p.211

1985
Krantz, Les. American Artists - An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans, Facts on File Publications,
New York, NY, p.176, Illustration p.177

1986
Martin, Alvin. American Realism - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors, (The Glenn C. Janss Collection),
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, New York NY, Illustration p.187, pp.128,168,217

1988
Krantz, Les. The New York Art Review, American References, Inc., Chicago, IL, pp.130, 761

1989
Ward, John L. American Realist Painting 1945-1980, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, pp.272,276,316,321,338, 389

1993
Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism since 1980, Harry N. Abrams, New York, pp. 267-282

1994
The Fine Art Index, Volume I, International Art Reference, Chicago, p. 111

2002
Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism at the Millennium, Harry N. Abrams, New York, pp. 161-164

2004
Cempellin, Leda. L’Iperrealismo “Fotografico” Americano In Pittura. Padua, Italy: Coop. Libraria Editrice Università di Padova, p. 224


SELECTED CATALOGS (Top)

1971
"Art Around the Automobile," Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, June-August

1971
Karp, Ivan C. "Radical Realism," Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY

1972
Janis, Sidney. "Sharp-Focus Realism," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, January 6 - February 4, Illustration

1972
Baratte, John J., and Thompson, Paul E. "Phases of the New Realism," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL,

January 20 - February 20

1972
Warrum, Richard L. "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1972," Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, April 26 - June 4

1972
Abadie, Daniel. "Hyperrealistes americains," Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France, October 25 - November 25

1972-73
Amaya, Mario. "Realism Now," New York Cultural Center, New York, NY, December 6 - January 7

1973
Sims, Patterson. "Realism Now," The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY, May 20 - June 24

1973
Dali, Salvador. "Grand Maitres Hyperréalistes Américains," Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France, May 23 - June 25

1973
Lamagna, Carlo. "The Super-Realist Vision," DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, October 7 - December 9

1973
Meisel, Louis K. "Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Illustration

1973-74
"Hyperréalism," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium, December 14 - February 9

1974
Shipley, James R.; Weller, Allen S. "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, IL, March 10 - April 21

1974
"Twenty-Five Years of Janis: Part II from Pollack to Pop, Op and Sharp Focus Realism," Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC, March 13 - April 13

1974
Cowart, Jack. "New Photo-Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, April 10 - May 19

1974
Warrum, Richard C. "Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, May 22 - June 14

1974
Walthard, Dr. Frederic P. "Art 5`74," Basel, Switzerland, June 19-24

1974
"38th Annual Midyear Show," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, June 30 - September 2

1974
"Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek," Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, Holland, August; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Sept.-Oct.

1974
"Aspects of Realism," Moos Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September - October

1974
Chase, Linda. "Photo-Realism, Tokyo Biennale 1974," Traveling Exhibition: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Perfectual Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

1974
Goldsmith, Benedict. "New Realism Revisited," Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University of Potsdam, NY

1974
Taft Museum and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, September 12 - October 26

1975
Meisel, Susan Pear. "Watercolors and Drawings - American Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, January

1976
Felluss, Elias A. "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC

1976
Gervais, Daniel. "3e foire internationale d'art contemporain," Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16-24

1976-78
Chase, Linda. "`U.S.A.' Aspects of Realism," Rothman's of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd., June 1976 - January 1978

1977
Dempsey, Bruce. "New Realism," Jacksonville Art Museum, FL

1977
Felluss, Elias A. "Washington International Art Fair," DC

1977
Seabolt, Fred. "New in the `70's," Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Austin, TX, August - September

1977-78
Stringer, John. "Illusion & Reality," Australian Gallery Director's Council, North Sydney, N.S.W.

1978
Hodge, G. Stuart. "Art and the Automobile," Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI. January 12 - March 12

1978
Henry, J. B. III. "With a Little Help from our Friends," Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 22 - July 16

1978
Adams, Lowell. "Cityscape`78," Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK, October 27 - November 29

1978
Meisel, Susan Pear. "The Complete Guide to Photo-Realist Print-making," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NY, December

1979
"Ron Kleemann Official 500 Artist," Indianapolis 500, IN

1979
Steuber, Michael. "Selections of Photo-Realist Paintings From New York City Galleries," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art,
St. Francis College, Loretto, PA, May 12 - July 8

1980
"Photorealism," Kauffman Gallery, Houston, TX

1981
"Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism," Essays by Alvin Martin, Linda Nochlin, and Philip Pearlstein.
Traveling Exhibition Organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art, TX.

1981
"Cityscapes," The Column, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, July

1981
"Super Realism for the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," September 1, 1981 - August 15, 1982

1982
"Photo-Realisme Dix Ans Apres," Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France, January 13 - March 6

1983
"American Super Realism From the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL,
Nov. 4 - Dec. 7, p.28

1987
"Art and Law," West Publishing Co., Saint Paul, MN, p.50, Illustration p.70-71, Illustration

1991
Scott, Sue. "Motion as Metaphor - The Automobile in Art," Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA, April 13 - June 16

1991
Cohen, Nancy. "Traffic Jam - The Automobile in Art," New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, September 15 - October 27

1991
Schwartz, Constance. "In Sharp Focus: Super Realism," Nassau County Museum Of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

1994
“New Art in an Old City/2,” with essay by Edward Lucie-Smith. The Virlane Foundation and The K & B Corporation Collections,
New Orleans, LA, p.42

1997
“Photorealists,” with essays by Dr. Judith Van Baron & Dr. Margaret Betz, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

1999
Gibson, Eric. "Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century,"
Meridian International Center, Washington, DC (International Traveling Exhibition) illustration page 44

2001
"Illusion and Reality: Hyperrealism Painting in Korea and America," Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea, March 3 - April 29, pp. 76-79

Perrell, Franklin Hill.
“Photorealism: Painting and Sculpture,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

2004
“Seeing Photographically: Photorealist Paintings (The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection),” with essay by Hanneke Grootenboer.
New Orleans, LA, plates 20 and 30

2004-05
“American Photorealism,” traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art, April 4 – May 16; Iwaki City Art Museum, May 23 – July 4;
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, July 16 – September 5; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, September 12 – November 7;
Also to Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, Dec. 12, 2004 – March 27, 2005, pp. 72-73

2004-05
“An American Odyssey 1945-1980 (Debating Modernism),” traveling exhibition, Spain: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 13 – May 30;
Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, June 10 – July 31; Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, September 2 – October 2;
Also to Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY, October 24, 2004 – January 15, 2005, pp. 282-283.

2005
"Cars and Ketchup: Photorealist Images of the American Landscape." Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, NY April 2 - June 19, p.17


Ron Kleemann - Photorealist Artist

BORN:

Bay City, Michigan, July 24 1937

CURRENT RESIDENCE:
Valatie, NY

EDUCATION:
University of Michigan, College of Architecture
and Design, B.S. in Design, 1961