Harding Meyer Brazil, b. 1964

Lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany. 

Mayer is a Brazilian-born artist. He studied from 1987 to 1993 at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, in Germany. 

He is known for his realist large-scale oil portraits, based on photographs shown in the media such as television, magazines, press or digital media. The close-up portraits, in which the eyes of the subject confront the viewer, are painted with brushes and palette-knife, simulating the distortions and machinations created by the mass media. With his art, Meyer recovers some of the individuality that those faces had lost due to the standardization of the media contents.

Since 2000, Meyer has exhibited his work in numerous galleries around the world (Germany, Austria, Canada, England, Qatar, and Italy). Among the most recent exhibitions, the following stand out: Galerie Frey, Salzburg and Vienna; Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf; Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, and Gallery Jarmuschek and Partners, Berlin. He has also participated in group exhibitions: Musée Würth France Erstein, France; Museum Dr. Guislain, Belgium, and Museo Michetti, Italy. He has taken part in various international fairs, such as Art Basel, Florida.

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