Guy Yanai attended Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; The New York Studio School, New York, NY; Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France and received a BFA from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
Yanai has had numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Calm European, Flatland Gallery, Art Brussels; Calm European, Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Love of Beginnings, Galerie Derouillon; Fox Hill Road, Rod Barton, Brussels, Belgium; Ordinary Things, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel; Diary, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France; First Battle Lived Accident, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Accident Nothing, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Lived & Laughed & Loved & Left, La Montagne Gallery, Boston, MA; and Battle, Therapy, Living Room, The Velan Center for Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy.
Recent group exhibitions include Surreal House, The Pill, Istanbul, Turkey; Art Cologne with Conrads Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany; Post Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York, NY; What’s Up 2.0, London, England, curated by Lawrence van Hagen; Tableaux, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, Australia; The Ties That Bind, David Achenbach Projects, Wuppertal, Germany; Cause the Grass Don’t Grow and the Sky ain’t Blue, Praz Delavallade, Paris, France, curated by Clemence Duchon and Flavie Loizon; Bisou Magique, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France, curated by Yundler Brondino Verlag; Mademoiselle Albertine est Partie!, Kaye Donachie and Guy Yanai, Appartement, Paris, France, curated by Timothée Chaillou; A House Without Rooms, Galerie Torri, Paris, France; Words Without Letters, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; and GROWTH, Charlotte Fogh, Aarhus, Denmark; and Not For Sale, Kiryat Tivon Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
Yanai currently lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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