SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. (upcoming)
2024 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL.
2023 Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI.
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2023 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
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2023 The Artist Book Foundation, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA.
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2017 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
2013 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
2011 Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
2010 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
2008 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
2004 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
2002 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
2001 Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX.
1999 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
1995 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
1993 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
1990 Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2024 Paper Goods, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2024 Election Reflections: A Celebration of American Culture, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2023 Art Miami, Miami, FL.
2023 Fall Selections, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
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2023 Beyond the Lens: Photorealist Perspectives on Looking, Seeing, and Painting, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, N.C.
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2022 Dusk till Dawn, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2021 Art Miami, Miami, FL.
2021 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Southampton, NY.
2020 Art Miami – SoHo Edition, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2019 TWO x TWO for Aids and Art, Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX.
2019 Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX.
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2018 Art Miami, Miami, FL.
2018 From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today, Flint Institute Arts, Flint, MI.
2018 Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX.
2018 Belief in Giants, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
2017 Size Matters: Big and Small Works from the FIA Collection, Flint Institute Arts, Flint, MI.
2017 From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY.
2017 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
2017 Gone to Texas, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX.
2017 Size Doesn't Matter: A Survey of Small Works, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2017 Hyperrealism: 50 Years of Painting, Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2016 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany.
2016 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Musée d' Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.
2016 Differing Views: Rackstraw Downes, Richard Estes, Yvonne Jacquette, Andrew Lenaghan and Rod Penner, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY.
2016 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia.
2015 Exposition Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2015 Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX.
2015 Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2014 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL.
2014 Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
2014 Hyperrealism 1967 - 2013, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain.
2014 Exposition Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2014 Photorealism: The Everyday Illuminated, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2014 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
2013 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.
2013 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Musee D’Ixelles, Brussels, Luxembourg.
2013 Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting, Kunsthall Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
2012 Art Basel Miami Beach, with A|M|Y, Miami Beach, FL.
2011 Our Own Directions: Four Decades of Photorealism from the Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
2011 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL.
2011 Four Decades of Photorealism, Mana Art Center, Jersey City, NJ.
2011 Summer Group Show, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
2010 Expansion, Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2009 American Dream, The National Museum in Krakow, Poland.
2009 Shock of the Real: Photorealism Revisited, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL.
2007 Photorealism: Cultural Icons, Jonathan Novak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2006 Photorealist Paintings from the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, Paul & Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA.
2005 American Photorealism, Iwate Museum of Art, Japan; traveling exhibition in Japan.
2005 Photorealism, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, NJ.
2003 Iperrealisti, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy.
2003 Contemporary American Realism VI, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2002 New Generation Photorealists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY.
2002 Selections from “New American Paintings #42”, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA.
2002 As Real As It Gets: Super Realism and Photo-Realism from the Tucson Museum of Art and Private Collections, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
2002 Contemporary Realism V, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2001 Contemporary American Landscapes: An Urban and Rural Perspective, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK.
2001 Tulsa Collects, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK.
2000 Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX.
1996 Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine Arts Dealership, Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY.
1996 A Survey of Contemporary American Realism, Posco Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
1991 Texas Visual Arts Association National Spring Open Exhibition, Dallas, TX.
1990 Texas Visual Arts Association National Spring Open Exhibition, Dallas, TX.
1989 Jewish Community Center's 22nd Juried Art Exhibition, Houston, TX.
1987 Second Annual International Miniature Art Exhibition, Toronto, Canada.
1986 Bateman Selects, Nicolayson Art Museum, Casper, WY.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
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Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Flint Institute Arts Flint, MI
Virlane Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Pohang Iron & Steel Co., Seoul, South Korea
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK
Ivan C. Karp Family, New York, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Louis K. Meisel, New York, NY
Martin Z. Margulies, Miami, FL
CATALOGS and MONOGRAPHS
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2022 Anfam, David and Terrie Sultan. Foreword by Louis K. Meisel. ROD PENNER: Paintings 1987 - 2022, The Artist Book Foundation, North Adams, MA.
2019 TWO x TWO for Aids and Art, Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX.
2017 Sultan, Terrie. From Lens To Eye To Hand, Water Mill, New York: Parrish Museum of Art.
2017 Seed, John. Rod Penner, New York: Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe.
2016 Van Patten, James. The Acrylic Painter: Tools and Techniques for the Most Versatile Medium, Watson-Guptill, New York, NY.
2014 Photorealism: Beginnings to Today, Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers, New Orleans, LA.
2013 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism in the Digital Age, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY.
2011 Seed, John, Nine Artists, Los Angeles, CA.
2010 Karp, Ivan C. Rod Penner: Small Town Meditations, New York: O.K. Harris Works of Art.
2009 Czubinska, Magdalena. Fotorealizm Amerykanski: From K. and Susan P. Meisel Family Collection, Poland: The National Museum of Krakow.
2008 Fisher, Dean and Josephine Robinson. Teach Yourself Visually - Drawing, New Jersey: Wiley Publishing.
2007 Hermanns, Ralph. New York, of Course, Stockholm: Wetterling Gallery Publishing.
2006 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism: Cultural Icons, Los Angeles: Jonathan Novak Gallery.
2005 Rubin, David S. New Art In An Old City: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, New Orleans: Virlane Foundation.
2004 Meisel, Louis K. and Linda Chase. American Photorealism, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art.
2003 Becker, Wolfgang, Gianni Mercurio and Louis K. Meisel. Iperrealisti, Rome: Chiostro del Bramante.
2002 Auping, Michael. New American Paintings, (No. 42), Boston: Open Studios Press.
2002 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism at the Millenium, New York: Harry N. Abrams.
2000 Lash, Michael. New American Paintings, (No. 30), Boston: Open Studios Press.
1998 Kotick, Charlotta. New American Paintings, (No. 18), Boston: Open Studios Press.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 "The Last Picture Show: Photorealist Paintings by Rod Penner." Tampa Style Magazine, October 30 2023
2023 Spohn, Sarah. "New Exhibit at FIA Captures the Beauty of Forgotten Towns in Rural America." Flint Side, June 13, 2023
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2017 Smith, Andy. "Critic's Corner: Shows at Jerald Melberg Gallery." Charlotte Magazine, September 22, 2017
2017 Sava, Kenn. "Rod Penner's Neighborhood." NighthawkNYC.com, August 4, 2017
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2017 Sava, Kenn. "Rod Penner: Brilliance, Under Cloudy Skies." NighthawkNYC.com, June 10, 2017
2017 Sava, Kenn. "The Vermeer of Marble Falls, TX." NighthawkNYC.com, April 28, 2017
2014 Greenman, Ben. Photograph, "Admirable Restraint." The Morning News, December 12, 2014
2014 D'Addario, John, "Review of 'Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection'." The New Orleans Advocate, November 19, 2014.
2014 McCash, Doug. "Marvelous 'Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection' exhibit at NOMA." The Times-Picayune, November 6, 2014.
2014 Smart, Alastair. "Photorealism, at Birmingham Museum, review." The Telegraph, March 22, 2014.
2014 Davie, Will. "Review of Photorealism, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery." Aesthetica Magazine, March 2014
2014 Wei, Lilly. “Review: Rod Penner and Suzanne Caporael.” Artnews, February 2014.
2013 Seed, John. “Rod Penner at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe." The Huffington Post, October 25, 2013.
2013 Drigo, Daniele. "Hyper-Realistic Painting by Rod Penner." DD Arc Art, November 27, 2013.
2013 Mobertz, Lauren. “These Miniature Paintings Give a Hyperrealistic Glimpse into Small-Town America.” Dasburst, November 26, 2013.
2013 di Costanzo, Lily. “These Photos of Crumbling Buildings are Actually Paintings.” Curbed National, November 14, 2013.
2013 Gauss, Daniel. "Rod Penner Tears Your Eyelids Off at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery, NYC.” Examiner, November 13, 2013.
2013 Rhodes, Margaret. “Miniature Paintings Pay Homage To Small Town Life.” Fast Company, November 22.
2013 “To Do: See Rod Penner.” Critics' Pick, New York Magazine, October 28, 2013.
2010 Seed, John. “Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass.” The Huffington Post, October 16, 2010.
2010 Stoodley, Sheila Gibson. “Picture This.” Art & Antiques Magazine, May 2010.
2009 Aydlette, Larry. "The Pop! And Pow! Of Photorealism.” Palm Beach, February 01, 2009.
2005 Genocchio, Benjamin. “Photorealism: Is That All There Is?” New York Times, January 30, 2005.
2003 Leigh, Bobbie. “Alternate Realities.” Art & Antiques Magazine, Summer 2003.
2002 Photograph, Harper’s Magazine, June 2002.
2001 Ingalls, Hunter. "Four Exhibitions showing at Amarillo Museum of Art." Amarillo Globe-News, October 21, 2001.
2001 “The Real World.” Texas Highways, September 2001.
1997 Parks, John A. "Confronting Reality: The Watercolors of Rod Penner and Jay Kelly.” Watercolor - American Artist, Winter 1997.
1992 Brown, Debra. "Is Your House Hanging In A New York Gallery?” Clifton Record, October 12, 1992.
1992 Browne, Alex. “HYPER-REALISM; More Real Than Reality?” Peace Arch News, August 29, 1992.
AWARDS / HONORS
1991 Texas Visual Arts Association National Spring Open Exhibition, Dallas, TX; Honorable Mention
1989 Texas Visual Arts Association National Spring Open Exhibition, Dallas, TX; Best of Show