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6 Introduction
9 Please Do Touch
31 Finalists
54 Biography
57 Chronology
69 Treasure Our Planet
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Introduction
Yaniv
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Please Do Touch
"Yaniv has a rare understanding of colour and composition. But his work is not just
pretty pictures - there is some kind of intent behind his work. He is using the idea
of kinesthetic art where you have to touch it to get the sensation and to get an idea
of what he is feeling when he is painting it"
Art can facilitate the complex understanding Development. Yaniv traveled in New Zealand
between humankind and our environment to consult with the disability community to be
through an alternative language involving all able to integrate their ideas into his work.
our senses.
This is the first collective project of its kind.
The Please Do Touch series of installations
make a connection between art, social and With support from Creative New Zealand
environmental topics and disability. The art and from the EASPD (European Association
develops the Taking Action! UNESCO of Service Providers for Disability), Yaniv is
project that Yaniv launched 5 years ago. taking the installation for a solo exhibition
in October 2017, at the EASPD Montenegro
The installations use visual, oral and kinetic Conference and to Europe-based projects
languages to speak to the variety of human supported by the UNESCO.
experiences - to collaborate and work on
humanitys Sustainable Development Goals The Taking Action! blog (http://tinyurl.com/
(SDGs). taking-action-unesco) reports on the project.
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GOAL 14: Life Below Water
The blue and black represents sadness which is why Sea Anemones are all kinds of colours, shapes and
it is the main colour in this painting. Everything has sizes. You will see many Sea Anemones in this painting
disappeared and it is all over as there are no living as they should help to make us all happy.
things anymore. The water is not safe to swim in. They are beautiful, they are happy and in the position
they want to be in and they are colourful.
I want this painting to affect people and make them
consider their actions toward the environment and This painting is to show people what they have and
sustainability, as this is a picture of what could happen if want - which is a healthy sea and a happy sea.
we continue to take the ocean for granted.
This painting uses dark and dirty colours to show The words tell us what we can do to get clean water
how bacteria and dirt will make life worse. It will be and it is our job to do it, so come on.
smelly and people will be dying because the dirt
and filth makes them sick. It is not an environment
that people are can live in, it is dangerous. This
artwork acts as a warning to people to look at what is
happening to our water. Fix this problem and make
an effort to make it better.
Right now millions are living like this in cities. To me a happy city is one that is supportive,
They are living in a home that can collapse, blow away connected, it has grass growing, it is clean, living,
or flood. happy and vibrant. I want this painting to communicate
that if we all worked together towards achieving happy
These house are the wrong temperature too hot or cities we can find ways to pollute less, use less and
too cold with holes in them. No wind and light comes build sustainable and supportive communities.
through. No clean water around or close enough.
It is a big mess, no toilets no sewage. It is sad for people To me a happy city will have tall buildings, lots of plants
that dont have anywhere nice to sleep or get clean. and living things, grass growing everywhere, it will
be clean, people will be active and out roller skating
They are tired all time, they dont feel comfortable or in a and skate-boarding. We will all be healthy, happy and
way they prefer to be or rather be. everywhere we go will smell of flowers. Everyone will
This painting represents what should be fixed and better be well looked after, we will have gardens everywhere
be fixed. Lets make an effort to make the change. with food to eat, jobs for people to earn a living and
we will use sustainable ways of living, like solar power.
We will all look after one another and feel connected
as a community. This is the life and the world we
should all collectively be working towards.
Urban decay, diptych B The view from the 22nd floor, diptych A
2017 2017
Acrylic on canvas Acrylic on canvas
120 x 160 cm 120 x 160 cm
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Finalists
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26th Wallace Art Award 2017
Finalist
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2016 National Youth Art Awards
Finalist
Everybodys Lives
2016
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76cm
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2016 National Youth Art Awards
Finalist
Aglio Olio
2016
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 101 cm
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2015 24th Wallace Arts Awards
Finalist
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2015 National Youth Art Awards
Best Abstract Prize
Messy Earth
2015
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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2011 Eat Your Art Out Uxbridge Awards
Finalist
In the final stage of the work, I extended the process using food
colouring on canvas to produce Sweet As.
Exploring how media other than paints intervenes with the surface of
the canvas led to questioning the life of an artwork and the durability
of pigment.
This painting was created for a competition called Eat Your Art and
was a finalist in the competition. I created it by separating M&Ms into
their different colours and covering in a glass with water. When the
colours melted off the chocolate I took the choclate out and used the
coloured water that was left like paint. I threw the water at the canvase
in this order red, orange, yellow green, blue, brown in that order.
I didnt even use a brush.
The picture I could see when I finished was to red men holding up
something in amoungst the other colours. Very mysterious. Other
people have seen this too.
Ants liked the painting and they have changed it so the colours have
faded nearly to white leaving the pattern.
Sweet As
2011
Acrylic on canvas
38 x 76 cm
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2011 National Youth Art Awards
Finalist
This painting is a picture of a night that was a full moon. The title of
the painting was 5 words that rhyme and sound the same by the end.
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2009 National Youth Art Awards
Finalist
Real flection
2009
Acrylic on canvas on corrugated iron
150 x 70 cm
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2009 Great Waikato Art Show
Highly Commended
Hurricane
2009
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 120 cm
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2008 17th Wallace Art Awards
Finalist
The work I am doing now is about bridging perspectives the far and
the close. This takes me to spaces where I exchange perspectives as
often as I can it is part of growing up. From the perspective of the
planets in space, beginning with the closest to the furthest from the
Sun, there is an order that is unchangeable. From Earth near where I
am standing right now, people can see their favourite heavenly body
because the painting shows all nine planets as well as the Asteroid Belt,
the Moon and the Sun. I painted it so that people wanting to space out
can gaze at the planets that cannot be seen in real life other than by
travelling in space. My motivation is to share these visions with others.
I know I still have lots to learn. That is why it is important to be mindful
of the future and, direction I want to take my work in and the choices
to make at each intersection. The planets are on different orbits at
different speeds, so in 2012 the rare event of a planetary alignment
will occur. Unlike galactic systems, our lives are changeable: I picture
myself at that point in the future: Where am I? What am I doing?
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2008 National Contemporary Art Awards
Finalist
Autumn reflection
2008
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 61 cm
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Biography
Yaniv Janson Yaniv Janson is a 24-year-old who lives by the coast
New Zealand contemporary artist painter in Raglan, New Zealand.
Born 2 April 1992
Nationalities: New Zealand / French Although Yaniv was diagnosed at an early age with
autism and epilepsy, he maintains a hunger for
taking control of his life - for building his own
business around the work he loves most: spirit-
lifting, world-changing art.
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Awards
2017 2011
Finalist: 26th Wallace Art Award Finalist: Eat Your Art Out, Uxbridge Creative
Centre
Finalist: National Youth Art Award
2016
Finalist: Artistic Achievement Award, Arts 2010
Access Aotearoa
Finalist: Recognyz Youth Awards, Youth
Council/Hamilton City Council
2015
Finalist: 24th Wallace Trust Art Award 2009
Best Abstract: National Youth Art Award
Finalist: Artistic Achievement Category, Highly Commended Award: Great Waikato
Attitude Awards Art Show
Thirty under thirty Award: Hamilton City Finalist: Art Category, Recognyz Youth
Council Civic Award Awards, Youth Council/Hamilton City
Council
Finalist: National Youth Art Award
2014
Finalist: Artistic Achievement Category, 2008
Attitude Awards
Finalist: Trust Waikato National
Contemporary Arts Award
Finalist: 17th Wallace Trust Arts Award
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Installations
2017 2008
Please Do Touch, UNESCO Arts and Society Waikato District Health Board: Apocalypse
International Year of Understanding, Paris, now, Hamilton, NZ [WDHB Art Collection
France and World Humanities Conference, piece]
Liege, Belgium
2014
In Bee Tween, Hamilton Gardens Art Festival
[Feb]
2011
Earth, Fire, Water, Wind Layout for the New
Zealand Clean Energy Centre,Taupo, NZ
2010
Climatic Prints, Gallerie Clin. Butnaru, Paris,
France
Climate Change - Change NOW!!!
GreenSpace, Hamilton East, NZ
2009
Momento, University of Waikato Management
School, Hamilton, NZ Waikato District Health
Board: Sues t-shirt [Transfusion Competition],
NZ
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Solo Exhibitions
2017 2010
Please Do Touch, Galerie Memoire de Massey University, Global Warning -
lAvenir, Paris [Oct] Sustainability in Balance, Albany, New
Rich and Middle Class and Poor, ArtsPost Zealand [Nov]
Gallery, Waikato Museum, Hamilton [Feb- Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, The world
March] according to me, Morrinsville [Nov]
Waikato Management School: MCOM PR
Case Competition [Oct]
2016 ArtsPost, Waikato Museum: Visualising
Climate Change[Sep]
Yaniv Janson, Exhibitions Gallery of fine Art, Bayt Aba Hushi Cultural Centre: The Joy of
Auckland [July] Colour, Haifa, Israel [May]
Yaniv Janson Exhibitions Gallery Wellington
of fine Art [July - August]
2009
2014
Pomegranate Gallery, Grey and Beal St.,
Experience Comvita, Beehives Hidden in Trees Hamilton, New Zealand [Dec]
(part 2), Te Puke [Sept-Oct] Ein Hod Artist Village, Climatic
Perspectives, Israel [Oct]
Hillcrest High, Hamilton [Jun-Aug]
2013
The Depot Artspace, Naamat Gallery, New 2008
Zealand in the Minds Eye, Devonport [Oct]
Back to Haifa, Haifa, Israel [Jul] Tamarillo Gallery, Wellington [Aug-Sep]
La Commune, Hamilton [May: silent
auction]
2011 SANDZ Gallery, Frankton Village, Hamilton
[Apr]
Galerie Le Vieux Forgeron, Our Changing Momento (Lakeside venue), University of
World, Stanstead, Canada [Jun] Waikato, Hamilton [Apr]
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 2009
The Wallace Foundation, Auckland, 17th Waikato Museum, Claymation workshop
Annual James Wallace Trust Awards [Jul: video The artist within, Hamilton [Jun-Sep]
finalist] Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, Our
The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award and Space, Wellington [Apr]
exhibition, Whakatane [Oct]
Thornton Gallery, Waikato Society of Arts
WAIPRINT 2008, Hamilton [Sep]
Waikato Museum, Trust Waikato National
Contemporary Arts Award [finalist: Aug-
Dec]
SANDZ Gallery, Telecom IHC Arts Awards
2008, Hamilton [Jul]
OSFAOne Size Fits All, Thornton Gallery,
Hamilton [Jul]
ArtsPost, Waikato Society of Arts Members
Exhibition 10 years at ArtsPost [Jun]
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Publications
2017 2010
Yaniv Janson, Please Do Touch (ISBN-13: 978- Yaniv Janson, PortFolio, EGL Press Books
1548468903) Division: Hamilton, New Zealand (ISBN-
10:1449512933)
2016
Yaniv Janson, Rich and Middle Class and Poor
(ISBN-13: 978-1540529831)
2015
Yaniv Janson, Since the Beginning, Y-Artism
Creative: Charleston SC, USA (ISBN-10:
1483959031)
2014
Yaniv Janson, Beehives Hidden in Trees,
Y-Artism Creative: Charleston SC, USA (ISBN-
10: 1499668317)
2013
Yaniv Janson, Changing the World One
Painting at a Time, Ecosynergy Creative:
Hillcrest, New Zealand (ISBN-10:1451547013)
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Projects Collections
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Grants & Scholarships
2017 2009
2017 Creative New Zealand Award [Strong Wheeler Trust grant and Eleos Trust grant
International Presence towards Please Do
Touch Installations traveling to Montenegro
and Paris]
Eleos Trust, UNESCO project grant
Resene, New Zealand
2014
Creative New Zealand, Creative Communities:
Social integration artistic collaboration grant
2013
Eleos Trust grant and Fairey Trust grant
2012
TLC: International School of Art & Creativity,
scholarship
2011
Creative Hamilton, Artistic Development grant
2010
Arts Waikato, scholarship and Variety Gold
scholarship
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Media
2017 2013
Waikato times, Raglan Artist receives royal Hamilton News, Editor, Creative
invitation, Ruby Nyika, p.3 [23 Aug] combination:Beads of Courage Art Auction
Chronicle, Raglan artists new work right to the profit of the Child Cancer Foundation
under cafe customers noses, Edith Symes, , p.17 [15 Nov]
p. 3 [Jul] TV Central News, Yaniv Janson - an
emerging New Zealand artist, 9:30pm [9
2016 Oct]
Waikato Times, A painter who sees the
Kia Ora, Air New Zealand Magazine, world differently [21 Mar]
Agenda - Top cultural events in the country,
Auckland & Wellington Yaniv Jansons 2012
exhibition, p. 122 [Jul]
The New Zealand Artist, Solo exhibition for Waikato Independent, Global premiere to
talented young artist, Editor, p. 48-49 [Jul] screen at Waikato Museum [16 Aug]
UNO Magazine, A message in colour, p. Waikato Times, Spark of Genius: Doco on
100-105 [Jul] Hamilton artist highlight of festival, p.4-7[10
Aug]
2015
2011
New Zealand Herald, Sublime art for social
change, Francis Cook, p.22 [1 Dec] Hamilton News, Founder honoured, p.7 [18
Radio New Zealand, Yaniv Janson: Nov]
Accomplished Artist, by Carol Styles [28 Stanstead Journal, Janson Exhibition
Jun] Opens, p.3 [29 Jun]
Sherbrooke Record, New Show at Ye Olde
2014 Blacksmith Gallery, p. 7 [17 Jun]
Stanstead Journal, Internationally
Art News New Zealand, In praise of the Recognized Teen to Exhibit at Ye Olde
honey bee, p.141 and p.158 [Nov] Blacksmith Gallery, p.2 [15 Jun]
Hamilton News, Danielle Nicholson, Le Parisien, Edition 77, Je Peins Pour Etre
Hamilton artist honoured for colourful Heureux, p. 11 [20 May]
outlook, p.3 [3 Oct] VivreFM French Radio interview, LInvite de
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2011 (continued) 2010 (continued)
la Semaine, 8am Listen to Podcast [17 May] Hamilton high fliers, p.4 [1 July]
Housen Lifestyle, Waikato Times, The world Haifa and Northern News, The Joy of
through Yanivs eyes, p.20-21 [4 May] Colour Exhibition, p.28 [18 May]
Hamilton News, Quiet teen expresses a
2010 unique world view, p.9 [12 April]
Eastsider: Paintings speak for young
The Christchurch Press, Educational Hamilton artist, p.4 [4 April]
Options; Artist studies from home [23 Sept]
TV Central News, Interview with Yaniv 2009
Janson [20 Sept; 7:30pm]
Waikato Times, Waikato artistic efforts Waikato Times, Sensory delight: The new
rewarded, News, p.A7 [18 Sept] drill. Arts Section, p.17 [24 Dec]
Stuff.co.nz, Local youth to be celebrated at
Recognyz Awards, Scoop News 2008
SciBlogs, Science Media Centre, Royal
Society of New Zealand [10 Sept] Waikato Times, Waikato talent eyeing
Hot-Topic, Global Warming and the Future award, Arts section, p.10 [1 August]
of New Zealand, Paint it Bleak [9 Sept] New Zealand Arts Monthly, Y-artism
Hamilton News, Climate change visualised exhibition tour [1 May]
through art, p.15 [3 Sept] Hamilton Press, Talent unleashed, p.6 [16
Radio New Zealand, Our Changing World April]
news item [2 Sept] World News Network (http://wn.com/yaniv_
Hamilton Press, Yaniv - an early achiever, janson)
p.13 [1 Sept]
MSN New Zealand, Cleo News, Young Kiwi
artist inspires change [27 Aug]
ArtSpace Radio Show Interview, on HCR
with Renee Casserly and Margi Moore [26
Aug]
Wallis New Zealand, Anna Munford Pick of
the Week: Yanivs Tee [26 Aug]
Hamilton News, Gold Heart Scholarship for
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Moving Image Studies
2012
Short clips: http://tinyurl.com/Yaniv-Janson-
Diploma of Arts and Creativity (Hns.), The
movies
Learning Connexion, International School of
Arts and Creativity
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Treasure
Our
Planet
How late is too late for action? Yaniv Janson is
becoming known for his environmental and social
activism - perhaps he could call himself an Art-ivist.
He seeks to surprise - and having surprised - asks
his audience to visualise change.
Beehives
2013
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 76 cm
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