Throughout her prolific artistic career, Jeannette Pekari produced works of art using a wide range of techniques such as machine embroidery, ink, pastel, gouache, acrylic, oil, pencil, and serigraphies. Her art continues to captivate her audience with vibrant colours and a diversity of subject matters.
Jeannette Pekari breathed art all her life. When she was three years old, her mother noticed that she was more interested in playing with art materials than toys, expressing herself and communicating more with drawing than with speech. Being diagnosed as “aphasic”, she had to take speech therapy and go to a special school. She studied at Davison School in Atlanta (Georgia, USA) from 1965 to 1973. It was there that she won the first prize for her artwork, drawing a Christmas card in 1965.
After Davison School, she stayed with her parents in Montreal where she attended the Mackay Center School for the Deaf from 1973 to 1975. She then went to Switzerland for three years. She spent a year at Château Beau Cèdre in Montreux, and from there she went to Lausanne, Chateau Brillantmont for two years.
In 1978 and 1979, she took the Foundation course of Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, an independent art school in London, England. Then she spent three years at Goldsmiths’ College in London (1979 - 82) where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in textiles and Fine Arts.
She then stayed in Cannes, France, for four years where, surrounded and captivated by the beauty of the Côte d’Azur, she started to paint and prepare for exhibitions.
Education
1989 - 1991
Saidye Bronfman / School of Fine Arts, Montreal Quebec (Scholarship)
1979 - 1982
Goldsmith College, London, England (B.A. Textiles and Fine Arts course)
1978 - 1979
Byam Shaw, London, England (Fine Art Fondation Course)
1978 - 1979
Byam Shaw, London, England (Fine Art Fondation Course)
1976 - 1978
Lausanne, Switzerland
1975- 1976
Montreux, Switzerland
1974 - 1975
Trafalgar School, Montreal, Quebec
1972 - 1974
Mackay Center, Montreal, Quebec
1965 - 1972
Davidson School, Atlanta, Georgia
Solo Exhibitions
2002 July 9-Aug 2
Georges Laoun, 1368 Sherbrooke West
1997 Dec 3
L'Étape, Montreal
1993 June 17-30
Bar Bistro, 2070 de la Montagne, Montreal, Gallery Sékai
1992 March 25-27
The Arts Club, Montreal
1991 July 21-Sept 21
May 5-19
Kutz Coiffure, Montreal
Artist residence, Coolbrook, Montreal
1990 May
Artist residence, Montraal, Côte St-Luc
1989 May 25-June 4
Studio Carl Keitner, St-Paul, Montreal
1988 Aug 16- Nov 30
April 1-May 31
Studio Carl Keitner, St-Paul, Montreal
Gallery Baudinet-Hubbard, New York, NY.
1987 October
Gallery Lezart, Montreal
1984 October 4-30
108 St-Sauveur, Le Cannet, France
1982 November
Restaurant Eva, Cannes
Group Exhibitions
2003 Nov 18
Hotel Delta Montreal
2003 Nov 11- 2004 Jan 30
Hotel Delta Montreal, Espace Adagio
2003 Oct 21-
Nov 21
Carrier Gallery, Toronto
2003 Oct 9-
Nov 9
Hotel Delta Montreal, with Magyart
2003 July 21-25
Palais des Congès, 201 Viger Avenue W,
Montreal
2003 Jun 5
Place Ville-Marie, 1 Place Ville-Marie, Montreal
2002 Dec-
2003 Feb
Art en Majuscule, 950 Ottawa St
2002 May 28-
June 14
Loto-Quebec Gallery, 500 Sherbrooke W, Montreal
2001 Dec 5-
2002 Jan 6
Arts N.D.G. Montreal
2002 May 28-
June 14
Loto-Quebec Gallery, 500 Sherbrooke W, Montreal
2000 Nov 29-
2001 Jan 7
Arts N.D.G. Montreal
2000 Sept 23-24
Centre Socioculturel de Brossard "La Mosaique"
From 1000 artists, 12 has been selected, including myself.
2000 June 1-6
Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal. With Visions sur l'Art (Québec) Inc.
1999 April 21-
May 3
Pierrefonds Cultural Center
1998 April 22-26
The Arts Club, Montreal
1997
December 1-9
Nov 23-Dec 7
Nov 15-21
June 26-July 17
April 2-6
March 9-29
February 22-28
Jan 15-Feb 2
Loto-Quebec Gallery, 500 Sherbrooke W, Montreal
The Arts Club, Montreal
Constance-Lethbridge Rehab. Center, Montreal
Commensal, Montreal
The Arts Club, Montreal
La Maison d'art Fra Angelico, Montreal
Studio Armand Laramé, Montreal
with Armand Laramé
Faubourg Ste-Catrine, Montreal
With Performance Art Visuels
1996-97 July-
January
Cine Express Ste-Catherine, Montreal
1996 April 7-17
Burke Gallery, Suny Plattsburg Art Museum,
New York
1996 April 19-21
Art Auction 57 on Ch 57, Plattsburg
1995
December 6-24
Nov 25-Dec 13
Nov 24-26
July-August 30
May 28-June 3
Artkore Gallery, Old Montreal
The Arts Club of Montreal
Mgr Pigeon Center, Montreal
Entre Cadre Gallery, Montreal
Complexe Desjardins, Montreal
Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montreal
Galerie Desrochers, Montreal
Bar Au Plaisir, Montreal
with Brigit Blais and Claude Jean
Leon d'or, Montreal
with the Fou Art
Place Ville-Marie - Main Entrance Hall, Montreal
Sedarco, Montreal
1994
October 24
Oct 12-Nov 5
October 2-15
June 1-9
April 10-15
April 5-17
1993
November 24-26
November 14-26
November 9-28
Aug 25-Sept 5
April 21-25
April 18-30
March 7
The Arts Club, Montreal
with Georgette Picron
Complexe Guy Favreau, Montreal
Sodarco, Montreal
Sodarco, Montreal
The Arts Club, Montreal
Complexe Guy Favreau, Montreal
Montreal Council of Women, Salle Claude-Champagne
with Gallery Sékai, Montreal
1992
November 25-29
November 7-22
October
September 1-23
July 1-3
March 4-8
The Arts Club, Montreal
Aeroport international de Montréal, Dorval
9e Grand Concours, National des arts Visuels
The Arts Club, Montreal
Galerie l'Empreinte with S. Paré, Old Montreal
International Exhibition Villa Brillantmont
Lausanne, Switzerland
The Arts Club, Montreal
1991
Nov 27-Dec 6
October 2-6
April 24-May 3
April 18-27
April 15-30
Feb 14-March 29
The Arts Club, Montreal
The Arts Club, Montreal
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
Tudor Hall Ogilvy with The Arts Club, Montreal
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
with Seymour Segal class
Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Crescent St, Montreal
1990
October 18-21
October 15-30
June 13
April 23-28
April 19-May 1
Hungarian United Church, Montreal
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
Israel Tour Exhibition
Kfar Giladi, Israel
Saidye Bronfman Tour
Gallery Walter klinkhoff with the Arts Club, Montreal
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
1989
October 18-29
Aug 15-Sept 6
July 15-25
Hungarian House, Montreal
Old Port of Montreal, Montreal
Complexe Guy-Favreau,Montreal
1988 December 3-7
The Arts Club, Montreal
1987-88
Gallery Nova, Crescent Street, Montreal
1987 June
St-Eustache, Quebec
1986
Oct 16- Nov 7
Sept 18-28
Ateliers des Maîtres, Paris, France
with Nathiela Mitro
Le Salon d'automne, Le Cannet, France
(4th price for Atmosphere of the cats at Le Cannet)
1985
July
April
March 17-26
Le Salon d'été, Le Cannet, France
Le Salon du Printemps XXI, Le Cannet, France
La Gare Maritime, Cannes, France
(XXIe Grand Prix International de Peinture)
1983
Laval Jewish Community Centre, Laval, Quebec
(Juried show with 108 artists)
1982
Goldsmith University, London, England
1974
Mackay Centre, Montreal
(3rd prize, competition for the hearing impaired)
Collections
1985
Michèle Deniau Theater Paris, France
- Several works in machine embroidery, ink, pastel, and gouache
Frida Boccara Family, Paris, France
- Eleven works in pen, crayon, and pastel
Gallery Baudinet-Hubbard, New York City
- Twenty-five works in acrylic, oil, pastel, pencil, sergraphies, and
machine embroideries
1982
Hampton Court Palace Museum, East Molesey, Surrey, England
- Two works in machine embroidery
Competitions
1986
Salon des Ambassadeurs, Palais des festivals, Cannes, France
- Costumes de bal
Poster for le Cannet France
- First prize for Atmosphere of the cats at Le Cannet
1985
Dinnerware Plates design, Paris, France
Special Projects (Painting in direct)
1994 June 11
"La Vache Lait " with the fou art.
Le Carré Viger, 425 St-Antoine E.
- First prize of 500 artists
1989-1990
1987-1990
1987
Artists from Montreal and Ottawa, Ottawa
Foufunes électriques, Montreal
Foufunes électriques, Montreal
with Gallery Lezart
Art Books
Guide Roussan, Peintres du Québec, evaluations in galleries 1997, Roussan Editeur Inc., Montreal
Affiliations
1997-
Member of Visions sur l'Art (Quebec) Inc, Montreal
1988-1998
Member of the Arts Club of Montreal
1999-
Member of RAAV, Montreal
2000-2002
Member of Arts NDG