Mike Bayne (b. 1977 Ottawa, Canada) creates miniature Photorealist paintings of overlooked North American scenes, frequently of his childhood town. Capturing every detail from his working photographs, he replicates his subject not only in terms of imagery, but often also in scale, by mimicking the size of actual commercially printed photographs. Bayne’s highly detailed brushwork captures imagery from the everyday and the banal. His depictions of architecture and vehicles render environments locked in a moment of time, devoid of people and movement. Deliberately lacking expressive content, his head-on compositions often feature broad swathes of color in seemingly flattened geometric forms. Visually, his works are at once abruptly realistic, and yet purposefully inorganic.
He received his MFA from Concordia University and has participated in many group shows across the U.S. and Canada. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Nerman Museum to name a few. Bayne was also the recipient of the Kingston Prize for Portraiture in 2011.
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Exhibitions
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Previous Exhibitions
Art Miami 2021
Booth AM406
30 November — 5 December, 2021
High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli & the Digital Age Photorealists
14 February — 30 August, 2020
Mike Bayne
4 April — 27 April, 2019
Food for Thought
A Selection of Small Works Curated by Susan Meisel
28 February — 30 March, 2019
Art Miami 2018
4 December — 9 December, 2018
Photorealism Revisited
50 Years of Photorealism
6 June — 21 June, 2017
Recent Press
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Mike Bayne
by Nicole Armour
Square 2 Magazine, 01/01/2011