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Guy Yanai
Guy Yanai
(b. 1977, Haifa, Israel)
Guy Yanai lives and works between Tel Aviv, Israel, and Marseille, France. His practice has long
been concerned with transforming the everyday into a distilled visual language of color and form.
His paintings are distinguished by bold, saturated tones; a tension between simplified and highly
complex compositions; and an intentional flatness that together create an atmosphere of both
immediacy and quiet reflection. Drawing from sources that range from classical and modern
painting to cinema, advertising, digital imagery, and social media, Yanai translates the visual
saturation of contemporary life into precise, contemplative arrangements.
His works often depict familiar scenes—domestic interiors, landscapes, and fragments of daily life
—reduced to essential planes of color and rhythm. Through this process, the ordinary becomes
luminous and the fleeting is granted permanence. Although disciplined, the artist’s brushwork
retains a human and poetic pulse. The clarity of line and calibrated harmony of tone evoke a sense
of stillness within motion, and distance within intimacy. Yanai’s practice proposes a new form of
seeing, one rooted in both detachment and tenderness.
Recent solo exhibitions include You Must change Your Life, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (2026); The Tokyo Edit, Isetan the Space, Shinjuku, Tokyo (2025); Your World Not Mine, Galerie König, Berlin (2024); Blue Hour, Seo Jung Gallery in conjunction with Art Intelligence Global HK, Seoul (2023); Finding Time Again, Harper’s Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); The Things of Life, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2021); The Caboose, Praz- Delavallade, Los Angeles (2021); Life in Germany, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf (2020); and Niels Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills (2020).
Selected recent group exhibitions include Throughlines, Larsen Warner, Stockholm (2025); Dear
World, Galerie König, Berlin (2025); On the Voyage, Asia Art Center, Beijing (2024); Inner Spaces,
König Gallery, Seoul (2021); The Body Electric, Larsen Warner, Stockholm (2023); The Natural
World, Alexander Berggruen, New York (2022); The Greek Garden (curated by Aurore Chauve &
Guy Yanai), Praz-Delavallade, Paris (2021); Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo (2022); and To Paint Is
to Love Again (curated by Olivier Zahm), Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2020).
Recent institutional solo and group exhibitions include Inner and Outer Worlds (group), Ju Ming
Museum, Taipei (2025); The Light Within, duo exhibition with Joel Mesler, Nassima Landau
Foundation (2025); Threadsun, Nassima Landau Foundation, Tel Aviv (2024); Licked by the
Waves, Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands (2024); Home Is Where the Art Is, Kunsthal Rotterdam
(2022); Guy Yanai, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (2015); Battle Therapy Living Room (curated by
Noam Segal), Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Turin (2013); and Recent Purchases, Ashdod
Museum of Art (2008).
Yanai’s works are represented in numerous public and private collections across the United States,
Europe, and Asia, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Xiao Museum, Rizhao; the Rema Hort
Mann Foundation, New York; the José & Mary Mugrabi Collection (New York, Paris, Tel Aviv);
Israel Discount Bank; M Art Center, Shanghai; UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas; the
Drake Collection; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; the Anita Zabludowicz Collection, London; the
Poort Visser Collection, Netherlands; Creutz & Partners, Luxembourg; Pon Holdings Collection,
Amsterdam; the Arison Family Collection; and the Bronfman Family Collection.
His most recent solo exhibition is currently on view at Galerie Lelong, Paris