Bert Menco

January 9, 1946, Arnhem, The Netherlands, lives in Evanston, IL, USA. Bert Menco is an avocational artist. His images tend to be reflections of inner feelings; hiding behind reality, masking yourself, or trying to show with the mask how you really feel, maybe one's normal face is really a mask. Please see also: .html

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS:
2013 - In: Nuno Canelas: “Global Print 2013”, Nucleo de Gravura do G. R. Cultural de Alijó, Alijó, Portugal
2012 - In: Francisco Lara Mora, Clemente Barrena: Sobral, Imprima 2012, Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
2011 - In: “Feest”, 18de Internationale Exlibris en Kleingrafiekwedstrijd, International Ex-Libris Center, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2010 - In: “Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries”, Colapasta in Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2000 - In: Ivy Sundell, “Art Scene, Chicago 2000”, Crow Woods Publishing, Evanston, IL
1997 - In: Lynne Allen, Phyllis McGibson, Ruth Weisberg: “The Best of Printmaking”, Rockport Publ., Gloucester, MA

ARTICLES:
Brazil: Dégagé; Italy: Venezia News; Japan: Hokkaido Newspaper; Latvia: Chas Daily; South Korea: Art in Culture; The Netherlands: De Gelderlander, NIW; UK: Coventry Evening Telegraph; US: Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, Evanston Review

SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL; College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Hyundai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea; Illinois State M...

SELECTED ONE-AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013 - “Bert Menco, Dutch-Chicago Interactions”, Fireplace Gallery, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2012 - “Works on Paper”, Oxalá Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 - “Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries” (individual shows), Colapasta in Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2002 - “Images from Beyond”, Libreria San Pantalon, Venice, Italy
2001 - “Portraits of the Soul”, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 - “Franz von Bayros (1866 -1924) and Others”, Musée de l´Erotisme, Paris, France (travels to China and Poland, 2015)
2014 - “7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, 400 Artists - 800 Works - 70 Countries”, various locations, Portugal
2013-14 - “Strong Water 4”, The Etching Guild, Riga, several Latvian locations, Jurmala & Riga, Latvia
2013-14 - “4th Lessedra International Painting & Mixed Media Competition”, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2013 - “The “Iosif Iser” Contemporary Print Biennial Exhibition 10th Edition”, “Ion-Ionescu” Art Museum, Ploiesti, Romania
2013 - “Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial”, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston
2012-13 - “Figurism: Narrative and Fantastic Figurative Art from the Ill...