Gayle Madeira

Selected Group Exhibitions

18th Annual IGOR Exhibition
T. H. Brennen Fine Art, Scottsdale AZ, 2024

The Salmagundi Club’s 140^th Annual Member’s Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2024

Realism on the Hudson
American Artists Professional League, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY, 2024

Feminism
33 Contemporary, Online, 2024

EROS
33 Contemporary, Online, 2024

Miniature Nudes
33 Contemporary, Online, 2023

Allied Artists 110th Annual Exhibition
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH, 2023

ExhibiTour
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau Wisconsin, 2023

National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society
Online, 2023

Arnot Museum’s 77th Regional Exhibition
Arnot Museum, Elmira, NY, 2023

Salmagundi Figuratively Speaking
The Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2023

Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art’s International Biennial Portrait Competition
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau Wisconsin, 2023

National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society Best of America 2023
Principle Gallery, Arlington VA, 2023

The Salmagundi Club’s 139^th Annual Member’s Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2023

Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art’s 6th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau Wisconsin, 2023

Oil Painters of America 2023 Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils
Reinert Fine Art, Charleston SC, 2023

M O (U) R N I N G curated by Didi Menendez
33 Contemporary, Online, 2023

Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Exhibition
Online, 2023 

Portrait Society Member’s Only 2022
Online, 2022

The Salmagundi Club’s 114^th Annual Thumb Box Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2022

Sunday in the Park with Asher
Durand-Hedden House, Maplewood NJ, 2022

International Guild of Realism Fall Online Exhibition
Online, 2022

FIKVA International
Online, 2022

Painting the Figure Now 2022
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau Wisconsin, 2022

National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Best of America
Wilcox Gallery, Jackson Wyoming, 2022

Allied Artists of America 109th Annual Juried Exhibition
Online, 2022

Salmagundi Annual Member’s Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2022

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 125^th Annual Open Juried Exhibition
The Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2022

Salmagundi Member’s Show 2022
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2022

Mujer curated by Didi Menendez
33 Contemporary, Online, 2022

Salon des Refusés
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau Wisconsin, 2022

National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Best of America Small Works
Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham Alabama, 2022

ModPortrait 2021
Bantierra Palace in Zaragoza, Spain and MEAM Museum in Barcelona, Spain, 2022

Salmagundi Black and White Exhibition 2022
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2022

Impressionism Today and Tonalism Today
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2022

2022 New York Figurative Show
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2022

Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists
Customs House Museum, Clarksville TN, 2022

Iconic curated by Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau Wisconsin, 2021

15^th Art Renewal Center Salon Exhibition
Sotheby’s NYC, European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona Spain, 2021

Au Naturel
33 Contemporary, Chicago, 2021

National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society Spring 2021 Online Show
NOAPS Online, 2021

Annual Member’s Exhibition
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2021

Lifting the Sky: Elevating the Works of American Women Artists
American Women Artists, 2021

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 124^th Annual Open Juried Exhibition
Salmagundi Club Club, New York NY, 2021

NYC Curated by Rick Davidman and Lisa Lebofsky
33 Contemporary, Online, 2020

Painting the Figure Now III
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau Wisconsin, 2020

Allied Artists of America 107th Annual Juried Exhibition
Online, 2020

Ambivalence curated by Carol Hodes
33 Contemporary, Online, 2020

Annual Member’s Exhibition
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2020

International Guild of Realism
IGOR Online, 2020

Figuratively Speaking
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2020

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 123rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition
National Arts Club, New York NY, 2020

Land and Sea
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2020

Thumb-Box Exhibition
Salmagundi Club, New York NY, 2019

Richeson Figure and Portrait 2019
Richeson Gallery, Kimberly Wisconsin, 2019

Oil Painters of America 2019 Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils
Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham Alabama, 2019

Beamesderfer 4: Real/Unreal
B. Beamesderfer Gallery, Highland Park New Jersey, 2019

Painting the Figure NOW II
Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wausau, Wisconsin, 2019

National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society Spring 2019 Online Show
Online at the NOAPS website, 2019

Art Renewal Center Salon Exhibition
European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, Sotheby’s Los Angeles, Salmagundi Club NYC, 2018-2019

28th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show
Abend Gallery, Denver Colorado, 2018

National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society Holiday Small Works Exhibit
Cathy Kline Gallery, Parkville Missouri, 2017

Oil Painters of America 2017 Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils
Anderson Fine Art Gallery, St. Simons Island Georgia, 2017

Immortelle
The Foundation Gallery, New Orleans Louisiana, 2016

International Guild of Realism’s 10th Annual International Juried Exhibition
Principle Gallery, Alexandria Virginia, 2015

FACE IT: The Face in Contemporary Art
OnSite:Brooklyn, NY, 2015

National Association of Women Artists 122nd and 123rd Annual Exhibition
Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NYC, 2011 and 2012

Solo Exhibitions

The Foundation Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2013

Collections

Thirteen images of Gayle Madeira’s paintings are archived in the Lunar Codex

Publications / Films

The Artists Magazine January/February 2024 issue

Fine Art Connoisseur October 2023 issue 

Enchanted Living Magazine, Summer 2023, issue #63

Fine Art Connoisseur May/June 2023 issue

Strokes of Genius 14: The Best of Drawing 2022

Plein Air Magazine September 2022 issue

Fine Art Connoisseur August 2022 issue

PoetsArtists March 2022 “Mujer”

International Artist Magazine’s December 2020/January 2021 issue #136

American Art Collector July 2021 issue #189

American Art Collector June 2020 Issue #176

International Artist Magazine’s December 2019/January 2020 issue #130 

GOSS183’s 2019 “The Gaze” Issue #107

PoetsArtists 2018 “Painting the Figure NOW II”

PoetsArtists 2018 “Abend Miniature Show 2018”

PoetsArtists 2018 “Painting The Figure Now” Issue #95

PoetsArtists 2018 “Eros Gaze” Issue #93

PoetsArtists 2018 “10th Anniversary” Issue #92

1340 Art Magazine 2018 Q2 Edition

PoetsArtists 2017 “Family / La Familia” Issue #88

American Art Collector’s 2015 Issue #119

Strokes of Genius 5: Best of Drawing | Composition 2013

Artists Magazine Artist-of-the-Month, 2010 February

Fifteen paintings in feature-length film “Prayer to a Vengeful God” by Dan Eberle, 2010

Awards / HONORS

The Artists Magazine 40th Annual Art Competition
2^nd place winner – Portraits/figures category – 2023

American Women Artists 2023 Annual Online Juried Show
Outstanding Achievement Figurative Award – 2023

Allied Artists 110th annual Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art
Alden Bryan Memorial Medal Award for Traditional Landscape – 2023

Exhibitour at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art
2 awards for 2 separate paintings – 2nd place and People’s Choice award – 2023

The Almenara Art Prize
Honorable mention and was chosen to represent the Almenara prize in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine

Salmagundi New York Figurative Show
Certificate of Merit – 2023

NOAPS Best of America
Award of Excellence – 2023

FIKVA International
Top 100 artists – 2023

The Portrait Society of America International
Select 50 – 2023

Art Renewal Center 16th International Salon
Enchanted Living Magazine Award and Finalists – Portrait and Plein Air categories – 2022

American Women Artists “Breaking Through” show at the Customs House Museum
The Kathleen J. Smith Humanity in Art Award – 2022

Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Semifinalist – 2022

The Portrait Society of America Member’s Only
Finalist – Non-commissioned portrait category – 2022

Outwin Boochever
Semifinalist – 2021

National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society
2nd Place – 2021

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 124th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club
Dorothy Kenney Memorial Award – 2021

Art Renewal Center 15th International Salon
Finalist – 3 paintings in the figurative category, 1 in the landscape category – 2020

The Portrait Society of America Member’s Only
Finalist – Outside the box category – 2020

The Salmagundi Club Annual Member’s Exhibition
Certificate of Merit – 2020

The Portrait Society of America Member’s Only
“Select 50” – 2020

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 123rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition, National Arts Club
First place gold medal – Oil painting category – 2020

The Salmagundi Club “Land and Sea” Exhibition
Royal Talons Material Award – 2020

The Portrait Society of America Member’s Only
Finalist – Outside the box category – 2019

Salmagundi Club Fall Auction
Sylvia Glesmann award – 2019

Beamesderfer 4: Real/Unreal
Honorable Mention – 2019

Figurativas 10th Annual International Painting and Sculpture Competition
Finalist – 2019

Art Renewal Center 14th International Salon
Finalist – Figurative and landscape categories – 2019

Richeson Figure & Portrait 2019
Finalist and meritorious awards – 2019

The Portrait Society of America Member’s Only
Finalist – Outside the box category – 2018

Natural Pigments
Featured Artist – ongoing

National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society Fall 2018 Online Show
Merit Award – 2018

Art Renewal Center 13th International Salon
Finalist – Figurative category – 2018

Richeson Still Life, Figure & Portrait, Animals Birds & Wildlife 2017
Finalist and meritorious awards – 2017

Art Renewal Center 12th International Salon
Finalist – Still life category – 2016

The Portrait Society of America Member’s Only
Finalist – Still life category – 2016

Richeson Still Life 2016
Finalist and meritorious awards – 2016

Artists Magazine
Finalist – Still life category – 2015

Art Renewal Center
Finalist – Animal category – 2015

Artists Magazine
Finalist – Portraits/figures category – 2014

Education

Intensive private study with Christopher Raccioppi – 2020-current

Gilding workshops with Charles Douglas – 2024

Art Students League NYC –Christopher Raccioppi, Barney Hodes, David Kassan, Terence Coyle– 1996-current

New York Academy of Art – workshops (Alyssa Monks, Vincent Desiderio, Dennis Cheaney, David Klass) – 2010-2019

Salmagundi Club – workshop (Quang Ho) – 2016 

Grand Central Academy of Art – workshops (Sam Wisneski, Travis Schlaht, Ted Minoff, Patrick Byrnes, George O’Hanlon) – 2009-2015

State University of New York, College at Purchase – BFA– 1992