Biography
Guy Yanai's 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.
His work has been exhibited in numerous institutions, including the Ju Ming Museum, Taipei (2025); MORE Museum, Gorssel (2024); the Nassima/Landau Foundation, Tel Aviv (2024); Kunsthal, Rotterdam (2022); Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (2015); Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin (2013); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar. Guy Yanai’s paintings feature in numerous public and private collections in the United States, Europe and Asia, including those of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Xiao Museum (Rhizao), the Hort Mann Foundation (New York), the José & Mary Mugrabi Collection (New York), M Art Centre (Shanghai), UT Southwestern Medical Centre (Dallas), Museum Voorlinden (Wassenaar), the Drake Collection (Wassenaar), the Anita Zabludowicz Collection (London), Pon Holdings Collection (Amsterdam), the Bronfman Collection, the Arison Family Collection, and the Creutz & Partners Luxembourg Collection.
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