Works
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled19, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled19, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    59 x 59 in
    150 x 150 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled19, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled20, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled20, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    59 x 59 in
    150 x 150 cm
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled21, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled21, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    59 x 59 in
    150 x 150 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled21, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled22, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled22, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    59 x 59 in
    150 x 150 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled22, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled23, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled23, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    59 x 59 in
    150 x 150 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled23, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled24, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled24, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
    120 x 120 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled24, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled25, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled25, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
    120 x 120 cm
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled26, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled26, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
    120 x 120 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled26, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled27, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled27, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
    120 x 120 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled27, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled28, 2022
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled28, 2022
    Melted recycled plastic and acrylic on mounted paper
    47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
    120 x 120 cm
    Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Untitled28, 2022
    Sold
  • Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 12, 2021
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled 12, 2021
    Paint and melted recycled plastic on canvas on board
    39 3/8 x 39 3/8
    100 x 100
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 12, 2021
    $ 16,000.00
  • Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 14, 2021
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled 14, 2021
    Paint and melted recycled plastic on canvas on board
    39 3/8 x 70 7/8
    100 x 180
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 14, 2021
    $ 20,000.00
  • Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 15, 2021
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled 15, 2021
    Paint and melted recycled plastic on plexiglass
    39 3/8 x 39 3/8
    100 x 100
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 15, 2021
    $ 11,000.00
  • Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 18, 2021
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled 18, 2021
    Paint and melted recycled plastic on plexiglass
    39 3/8 x 39 3/8
    100 x 100
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 18, 2021
    $ 11,000.00
  • Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 3, 2021
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled 3, 2021
    Melted plastic on recycled paper
    43 1/4 x 86 5/8 in
    110 x 220 cm
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 3, 2021
    $ 27,000.00
  • Painting by Saint-Etienne Yeanzi, Ivory Coast artist, melted plastic on recycled paper, depicting young men
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi
    Untitled 4, 2021
    Melted plastic on recycled paper
    31 1/2 x 46 1/2 in
    80 x 118 cm
    Saint-etienne Yeanzi, Untitled 4, 2021
    Sold
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Biography

Yéanzi was born 1988 in Katiola, Côte d’Ivoire, lives and works in Bingerville.

Graduated in painting and photography at the “ Lycée d'Enseignement Artistique “of Cocody and the National School of Arts in Abidjan, where he graduated in 2012.

Yéanzi, a street art enthusiast, worked as a commissioned portrait painter for ten years.

Since 2013, he has been pursuing personal work using melt plastic material. He thus modifies his relationship to the portrait and paint without painting, the people around him on a daily basis. In this process, he collects everyone's stories, uses their assumed name as a title, their remarkable identity, the mask they wear in society, to reveal their personality behind them.

Yéanzi has received several prizes and distinctions, including the first painting prize in the 'Ivory Coast-Israel' cultural competition, in 2008. He also received the diploma of honor from the Ivorian National Order of Merit in 2012. In 2013, he won the '' Guy Nairay Grand Prix '' and the ‘‘ Bene Hoane ’’ in 2013, he also participated in “les jeux de la Francophonie”at Nice, France.

He presented his work in 2015 at Galerie Cécile Fakhoury Abidjan during a solo exhibition entitled persona, at the exhibition « Abidjan on dit quoi? ». Also at Young talents in 2012 at the « Rotonde des Arts » and in 2014 at the « collective AAA (Abidjan Arts Actuels) » exhibition at the Donwahi Foundation in Abidjan and then at the Art prize the same year at the jack bell gallery in London.

 

Galerie Cécile Fakhoury presented his works at the biennial off of Dak’art in 2016 in the exhibition “a private collection”, at the platform of the art twenty one gallery in Lagos, Nigeria,1:54 Contemporary African ArtFair 2014,2015 and 2016 in London then at the 2016 Edition in New York and at Art Dubai in 2015.In 2017, he show up his work at the fifth edition of the Cape Town art fair in South Africa and made his entry the same year at the Mohammed 6 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, in the Africa in Capital exhibition.

 

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