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