Yehouda Leon Chaki - Artist Info

About Yehouda Leon Chaki

  • Biography

    Yehouda Chaki was born in Athens in 1938, lived in Tel Aviv from 1945 until 1960, and then emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1962. From 1967 until 1989, Chaki was head of Painting and Drawing, Department of Fine Arts, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre. Presently (2006), he still acts as an artistic advisor for the centre.

    Chaki was educated both in Tel Aviv and at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris. He began exhibiting in group exhibitions in 1959, and solo exhibitions in 1962. Chaki is represented in collections around the world, and the subject of Chaki: A Language of Passion, published by Buschlen Mowatt Fine Arts, Vancouver, 1994.

    The essence of Chaki's work has been described as a collision of the outside world ...

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