Israeli artist Yanai Segal (b. Netherlands 1977) makes mixed-media paintings and sculptures that explore the cultural histories of materials and images. Often using industrial materials in his painting, he draws on personal, political, and cultural narratives from a wide range of sources including his childhood in Jerusalem and Israeli architecture and History. Using a variety of mediums he explores themes of idealism, oppression, anxiety, utopia and the search for personal freedom. These universal themes are filtered through a personal emotive approach to material and color. His works frequently feature walls, openings, gates and borders and often reference imprisonment and the relationship between the individual, society and landscape. They offer an idiosyncratic mixture of abstraction, figuration, humor, violence and sweetness.

Yanai Segal lives and works in Tel Aviv. He is a co-founder of Barbur gallery, Israel's leading artist-run gallery. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at venues in Israel including Sadnoat Ha'Omanim Tel Aviv, The Jerusalem Artists House, Atelier Shemi, Haifa Museum of Art, Hamekarer Gallery, Mane Katz Museum, Tower of David Museum, Art Cube gallery, Feinberg Projects and more. He has taken part in numerous international exhibitions and events including at TWS gallery in Tokyo, Japan, No Soul For Sale at the Tate Modern in London; Centraal Museum in Utrecht The Netherlands, Subvision festival in Hamburg, Germany and more.