Roberto Bernardi was born in 1974 in Todi.

Roberto Bernardi is considered an artist belonging to the hyperrealist movement.

Hyperrealism is a movement that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, drawing inspiration from photography and photographic precision, but going beyond simple realism, emphasizing detail, reflections, and the rendering of light in an almost "hyper-photographic" manner. Bernardi fits this definition perfectly: his works, especially still lifes with shiny objects, glass, and fruit, display a meticulous attention to detail and a technique that makes it almost impossible to distinguish between photography and painting.

In short: Bernardi not only follows hyperrealism, but is one of its leading contemporary Italian interpreters, with a style recognizable for the brilliance of the materials and the perfection of the details.

He began painting at an early age, his first oil paintings dating back to the early 1980s. His obsession with detail and his learning of traditional painting techniques influenced his artistic development.

After graduating high school in 1993, he moved to Rome where he began working as a restorer at the church of San Francesco a Ripa. However, he soon abandoned restoration to devote himself full-time to creating his own artwork. After initially painting landscapes and portraits, Bernardi approached a new form of realism closely related to hyperrealism.

In September 1994, Bernardi held his first solo exhibition, garnering recognition from both the public and local critics. Since then, he has held 15 solo exhibitions worldwide, including in New York, London, Paris, Detroit, and Singapore, with works included in 25 international museum exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions in numerous art galleries worldwide.

A turning point in his artistic style occurred in the early 2000s with frequent trips to New York. In 2004, Bernardi moved to Manhattan for a short time, working from a studio on 73rd Street. During this period, his work was strongly influenced by American culture, thus entering the New York art market and becoming acquainted with the prestigious art world of the Big Apple.

During this period, he met many artists such as Richard Estes, Chuck Close, Tom Blackwell, Ralph Goings, Charles Bell, etc., with whom he exhibited many times in group exhibitions in various international museums.

From 2004 to 2010, Bernardi participated in numerous art projects sponsored by American and European collectors, along with other artists of the hyperrealist movement. Among the most notable were the "Zurich Project" and the "Hamburg Project" in 2007, the "Las Vegas Project" and the "Monte Carlo Project" during the Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2008, and the "Beijing Project," to which Bernardi was invited during the 2008 Olympics by American politician Eliot Cutler, who had lived and worked in Beijing for several years. After two weeks of intense travel in China and meetings with numerous Chinese politicians and artists, including Li Songsong, Cutler commissioned artist Roberto Bernardi to paint a series of works inspired by this Chinese experience.

The following year, in 2009, these works were exhibited in a solo exhibition in New York entitled “Progetto Pechino” at the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery.

In 2010, the Italian multinational oil and gas company, ENI, added Bernardi to its roster of young talents from around the world who uniquely interpret every moment of Eni's communications and commissioned Bernardi to add a work to their prestigious art collection.

Since 2012, Bernardi has been taking part in an international tour that began at the Tübingen Museum in Germany and then continued to 13 other museums around the world.

This tour includes the prestigious Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (England), the New Orleans Museum Of Art (USA), the Oklahoma City Museum Of Art (USA), the Museo De Bellas Artes De Bilbao (Spain), the Kunsthal Rotterdam Museum (Holland), the Tampa Museum Of Art (USA), etc.

In 2014, Bernardi was invited to the “Biennial of Contemporary Realism 2014” at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art (USA).

Over the last decade, Bernardi's works have evolved, his hyperrealist compositions increasingly influenced by the Pop Art movement, and in 2015, Oxford University Press included one of his paintings in D. Goldstein's book “Sugar and Sweets.”