Jean Jansem was a French-Armenian painter. He was born in Bursa, Turkey in 1920. Jansem and his family fled to Greece and then to Paris in his early childhood. In Paris, he attended the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs to study painting. Jansem had been awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1997, and the Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2003 in France. In 2010, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by the President of the Republic of Armenia. Jean Jansem died in Paris, France on August 27, 2013, aged 93. Museums Collections: Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France Ennery Museum, Paris, France Museum of Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France Azumino Jansem Museum, Nagano, Japan Jansem Museum, Tokyo, Japan Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2014 “Jansem – 75 years of painting. Retrospective paintings, drawings, sculptures”, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France 2013 “Hommage to Jansem”, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France 2012 “Jansem’s Studio Work”, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France 2011 “Jansem - Humanistic artist”, Antranik Youth Association, Beirut, Lebanon 2010 “Jansem – Landscapes”, Galerie l’Art Ancien, Orléans, France 2008 “Ballerinas 1968-2007, drawings, watercolor, pastels”, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France 2008 “Jansem, Humanist Expressionist”, Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2007 “Portraits, drawings 1947-2006”, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France 2006 “Dancers and Landscapes, paintings”, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France 2004 “Retrospective”, Château de Vascoeuil, Eure, France 2003 “Jean Jansem: Paintings of the 1980's”, Galerie Rienzo, New York, United States 2002 “Massacres, National Museum”, Genocide Memorial, Erevan, Armenia 2001 “Paintings and drawings”, Museum Haus Ludwig, Saarlouis, Germany 2001 “Massacres”, Galerie Matignon and Galerie Flora J., Paris, France 2000 “Jean Jansem: Paintings & Works on Paper”, Galerie Rienzo, New York, United States 1999 “Drawings, Azumino Jansem Museum, Nagano-Ken, Japan 1997 “Retrospective”, Navio Museum, Osaka, Japan 1996 “Retrospective”, Azumino Jansem Museum, Nagano-Ken/ Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1995 “Works on Paper”, Galerie Flora Jansem, Paris, France Selected Group Exhibitions: 2011 “Engravings, group exhibition : Bernard Buffet, Salvador Dali, Jansem, Eric Lepoureau, Georges Rouault, Pascal Teffo, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France 2010 “Put your pen to paper”, Galerie Matignon, Paris, France