Yohanan Delaunay-Israel

Born in France in 1955, I live and work in Jerusalem since 2015.
I started painting with a friend in an evening class at school. He liked to draw, I liked to paint. We both entered the Institute of Visual Arts in Orléans (1975/76), and then I was admitted to the Art Department of the Villa Arson - National School of Fine Arts in Nice - (1976/79). After graduating, I trained as a house painter and then studied to become a psychiatric nurse (1980/1983). I already knew a little about hospitals and their patients, having worked there every summer as a ward attendant during my studies at the School of Fine Arts. Becoming a psychiatric nurse and then a nursing supervisor at the Georges Daumezon Mental Health Center in Loiret, I combined painting and psychiatry almost daily. Along with fatherhood and Judaism, they were my only true sustenance.

In Orléans and Nice, I discovered : the abstract painting, the Quattrocento , the prehistoric Art and the Chinese painting. We had to know "everything" about the works that preceded us, and particularly those of the 20th century. We had , in some way, to answer for our own work in front of them. All the paths of contemporary art were open to us. Somewhat against the grain, I chose painting rather ...

STUDIES

1974-1976 Institute of Visual Arts - Orléans
1976-1979 National School of Fine Arts- Villa ARSON –
Nice
1980-1983 School of psychiatric Nurse – G Daumezon
Hospital – Fleury les aubrais
1990 School of Health Executives – St Anne Hospital –
Paris
1999 EHESP School of Public Health – Rennes

1991 Scholarship from the Head Office for Cultural Affairs
in Région Centre
2015 Aid to olim artists : mention « particularly excellent »
Ministry of Allya and Intégration

SOLO EXHIIBITIONS

2024 - « 5784 » Delaunay-Israël Studio Kfar Etzion
2023 - "Ici et maintenant" Delaunay-Israël Studio Kfar Etzion 
2021 - "Lishma 2018/2021 לשמה " Delaunay-Israel Studio
Kfar Etzion
2019 - « Hiérosolymitan Epiphanies » Delaunay-Israël
Studio Kfar Etzion
2017 - « News from past year » Delaunay-Israel Studio
Jérusalem
2016 - « Open doors » Delaunay-Israël Studio Jérusalem
2011 - « Le Pays Où le Ciel est Toujours Bleu » Gallery –
ORLEANS
2006 - Municipal Gallery - JERUSALEM
1998 - « Les Temps Modernes » Gallery - ORLEANS
1997 - « Le Carré » Gallery - LILLE
1997 - Louis Joseph Soulas School - Bazoches les
Gallerandes (Loiret)
1996 - Contemporary Art Center - Carré Saint- Vincent –
ORLEANS
1995 - Maurice Genevoix House - Saint Denis de l ‘Hôtel
1992 - Gallery Louis Guilloux School - ORLEANS
1989 - Contemporary Art Center - Carré Saint- Vincent
ORLEANS

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 -  "Renaissance: Reimagining the Classics" Curator
Anatoly Baratynsky Cultural center Jerusalem
2022 - Nature and landscapes in Israeli contemporary Art
Curator Dr A. Agam Dali Phd. Natural history
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