Born 1918, United States. Deceased 2014.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Bernard Perlin: Friends And Lovers, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York City
2016 Bernard Perlin: An Anthology of Drawings, 1934-1994, University of Richmond Museums, Virginia
2014 Bernard Perlin: Painter of Life and Light, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City
2009 Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York
1970 Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York
1966 Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York
1963 Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York
1958 Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York
1955 Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York
1948 M. Knoedler & Co, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022-23 Strange Sensations: The Startling and Surreal in PAFA’s Permanent Collection, Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2022 We Fancy: A Legacy of LGBTQIA+ Artists at the League, Art Students League of New York, New York City
2020-21 We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, The Jewish Museum New York, New York City
2019-20 Otherwise, The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia
2020 Traveling America: East To Midwest, Debra Force Fine Art, New York City
2020 Acquired on eBay (and from other surrogate sources), Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
2019 Fifty Years of American Art, Debra Force Fine Art, New York City
2019 Summer Exhibition, Debra Force Fine Art, New York City
2019 The Young and Evil (curated by Jarrett Earnest), David Zwirner Gallery, New York City
2012 Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, United Kingdom
2011 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Anatomy/Academy. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010 Cadmus, Tooker & French, and other Magic Realist, Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 Villa America: American Moderns, 1900-1950, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
2002 Warhol Explicitly Queer. Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York.
2002 Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
2001 Interwoven Lives: George Platt Lynes and his friends, DC Moore Gallery, New York
2000 Private Realisms: American Paintings 1934-1949, Jonathan Edwards College Master’s House, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1993 American Drawings and Watercolors 1760-1960: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
1982 Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1970 Six Americans, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1969 Artists Abroad: An Exhibition in Memory of Rene d’Harnoncourt, American Federation of Arts, New York
1969 Paintings by Bernard Perlin, Sculpture by Robert White, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut
1965 The Johnson Collection of Contemporary American Painting, St. Louis Art Museum, Art: U.S.A. St. Louis, Missouri
1965 The John S. Newberry Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
1964-5 Magic Realism – What Is It?, The American Federation of Arts, New York
1964 New York World’s Fair, Pavilion of Fine Arts, Presented by the Long Island Arts Center, Inc. Flushing, New York
1960-1 The John Hay Whitney Collection, The Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1960 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1959 Drawings – Group show with Carlyle Brown and Joseph Rollo. Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York
1959 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
1959 The Collection of the Sara Roby Foundation. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1958 Seventeen Contemporary American Painters. The Universal and International Exhibition; Brussels World’s Fair. Brussels, Belgium
1956 World at Work: Twenty-Five Years of Work for Fortune Magazine. St. Louis Art Museum. St. Louis, Missouri
1956 American Artists Paint the City – XXVIII Biennale, Venice, Italy. U.S. Pavilion; organized by the Art Institute of Chicago
1955 The New Decade – 35 American Painters and Sculptors. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1954 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Watercolors, and Drawings. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1951 Contemporary American Painting. St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1950 Symbolic Realism in American Painting. Institute of Contemporary Arts [ICA], London, United Kingdom
1950 Annual Exhibition. American Academy in Rome, Italy
1950 Artists Under 35 Years of Age. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1949 Contemporary Paintings from the United States, Great Britain and France. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1948-9 Fifty–Ninth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1948 Painting in the United States. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1947 Annual Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum Collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
Museum of Art, Springfield, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Academy Museum, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts