Yianni Johns

YIANNI JOHNS

Drawing all night from his earliest memories Yianni was and still is addicted to art. In some cases he has referred to art, as, important to him as oxygen, without it he can’t survive.

Yianni is a self-taught artist who started exhibiting his work in public in 1985. In 1991 had his first solo exhibition in Sydney where he was involved with at the time, a very progressive art movement called, ‘Art in Public Spaces.’ In 1998 Yianni hosted his own Solo Exhibition on the Central Coast where he lived at the time.

In 2002 Yianni made the front page of his local paper after being selected to sit for an Archibald Prize by the award-winning artist Peter Smeeth. This article brought him to the attention of local businessman Cedric Millner. Out of that meeting a new gallery was born in the heart of Wyong. The Grand Gallery shared a space with a Bottle shop at the back of the Grand Hotel a perfect venue for an art gallery. The charter of the Grand Gallery was, “Bringing Art Back to the People.”

Grand Gallery went on to become the center for contemporary art on the Central Coast attracting hundreds of art lovers to its many themed openings and artistic happenings.

Out of the Grand Gallery the Zooid Art Movement was born with ...

Master of Arts (Writing) with Swinburne University.

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Curtin University WA

EXHIBITIONS:
2024
Solo Exhibition Leeton Regional Gallery Museum.
Completed 4 years of Commissioned Artworks over 30 paintings.
Guest Artist Leeton Art Deco festival.
Solo Exhibition (Invitational) "Adoring Art Deco" Leeton Museum Gallery Leeton NSW. Australia.

2022
Finalist in the National Napier Waller Art Prize.

2020
Finalist in the National Napier Waller Art Prize
Opened my own commercial gallery in Temora Australia.

2019
Ardlethan Annual Art Prize Curator
The Other Art Fair Sydney
Completing Master of Arts

2018
The Other Art Fair Melbourne Exhibitor
A Taste of Yianni Solo Exhibition.
Art Takes Times Square
Judge: Temora Shire 2018 Art Awards
Judge: Leeton Annual flower Art Exhibition.

2017
Completing numerous private commissions.
Gosford Art Prize
Archibald Prize entry (rejected)

2016
Gosford Art Prize (Finalist)
Cossack Art Awards (Finalist)
Featured Artist ‘Urban Art Project’ NSW Central Coast
Solo Portrait Exhibition Tap Gallery

2015
First Look Exhibition Buratti Fine Art Gallery Subiaco
Cossack Art Prize.
Judge 2015 RAS Perth Show ‘Art Exhibition’
Art displayed in the Louvre in Paris
Art presented digitally in The Louvre Paris.
Headland Art Prize Finalist
Featured Artist Urban Art Project Central Coast NSW

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