Yehouda Chaki

Born in Athens in 1938, Yehouda Chaki lived in Tel-Aviv from 1945 to 1960. In 1962, he immigrated to Montreal, where he still lived and worked until his death in 2023. Chaki completed his studies in Tel-Aviv and at the École des beaux-arts in Paris. From 1967 to 1989, he was the Head of Painting and Drawing at the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts. His works have been collected and exhibited in Montreal and abroad. The artist is best known for his vibrant expressionistic corpus of landscapes, figures and still lifes. However, parallel to these joyful depictions lies a dark body of work that is an expression of angst and a vestige of his grief.