1931 
Born in Jerusalem on May 27th

Studies successively at: Fine-Arts School Tel-Aviv, Ecole des Beaux-Arts - Paris, and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti - Florence.

1960-1962 
Lives in Toscany, studies Italian Medieval and Renaissance art.

1962 
Moves to Paris.

1967 
First prize winner - Adolphe Neuman contest. Winner of the „Best Foreign Artist“ contest Musée d‘art moderne de la Vile de Paris, France.

1968 
Individual exhibition - Galerie 44, Brussels. Individual exhibition - Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv.

1969 
Five Israeli Artists at Saginawa Museum Michigan, USA.

1970 
The International Biennial of Bradford, Great-Britain.

1972 
Individual exhibition - Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv. Participates in „Les Fantastiques Contemporains“ - Galerie Gaubert, Paris.

1975 
International Fair of Basel, Switzerland. Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Group exhibition - Galerie Liliane François, Paris.

1976 
„Espaces insolites“ - exhibition - Palais des Congrès, Strasbourg, France. First Art Critics‘ Fair - Paris-La Défense.

1977 
Israeli Perspective - Grand Palais, Paris. Individual exhibition - Aberbach Fine Art, New-York.

1978 
Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel. Participates in the Israeli Art Festival - Ottawa, Canada.

1978--1980 
Draws in the Israeli wilderness (Negev and Judea deserts).

1979 
Israeli Art Festival - Berlin, Germany.

1980 
Individual exhibition - Galerie Noir, Paris.

1982 
Publication of „Espaces et Esprit d‘Israel“ edited by Images publishers, lithographies by Raff Kaiser.

1985 
Individual exhibition - Galerie de France, Paris. Individual exhibition - Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany. Individual exhibition - De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands.

1986 
The International Fair of Basel Individual exhibition - Goldman Gallery, Haifa.

1987 
Six months‘ stay and travel throughout the Popular Republic of China, following the steps of the artists of the Soung and Yuan periods (10th -13th centuries AD).

1988 
Individual exhibition - Stuttgart town-hall, Stuttgart, Germany.

1990 
Individual exhibition - Musée Guimet, Paris. Individual exhibition - Galerie Heyram - Mabel Semmler, Paris. Preparation of a rare publication at the Government Printing Office.

1991 (29/9/91-03/11/91)
Individual exhibition - Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany.

1991 
The first painter invited by the Nomura Cultural Foundation for a 12 months‘ stay in Japan. Travels throughout the Japanese mountains.

1992 
Publication of „Livre des Roches et des Nuages“ by the Government Printing Office; poems by Kenneth White, drawings by Raffi Kaiser.

1993 
Obtains the French Foreign Affairs‘ scholarship - a three months‘ stay at Villa Kujoyama Kyoto, Japan.

1994 
Group exhibition - Galerie de l‘Etoile- Mabel Semmier, Paris. Participates in the reopening activities of Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Germany.

1995-1997 
Sejourns in Negev and Judea deserts - Israel.

1997 
Individual exhibition - Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris.

1998 
Individual exhibition - De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands.

1999 
Individual exhibition - Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, Germany.
Individual exhibition - Galerie „Espace Furstemberg“ Mabel Semmler, Paris.

2000 
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Nijgata Prefecture, Japan.

2001 
Individual exhibition - Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg (Katalog)

2003 
Individual exhibition - Galleria del Leone, Venedig

2006 
Individual exhibition - Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt Raffi Kaiser „Paravents“
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Primordial Landscapes“ Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt

2007 
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Portraits of Trees“ Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt
Group Exhibition - Japan and the West, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

2008 
Group Exhibition - Morat Institut, R.Kaiser / A. Jaquet, Freiburg
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Espaces vides“ Galerie Claudia Delank, Köln

2009 
Group exhibition - Galerie Friedrich Müller, Raffi Kaiser et son invité Alain-Pierre Jacquet, Frankfurt

2011 
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Landscapes“ Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt

2012 
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Le voyage des voyages“, Morat Institut, Freibug
Individual exhibition - Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt

2013 
Group exhibition - Raffi Kaiser et son invité Alain-Pierre Jacquet, Galerie Michèle Broutta, Paris

2014 
Group exhibition - „Metaphysical Landscapes“, ARTVERA‘S Art Gallery, Geneva

2015 
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kasier „Drawings“, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt

2017 
Individual exhibition - Raffi Kaiser „Von Bäumen und Bergen“, Morat-Institut Freiburg

2018 
Individual exhibition - Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt

 

2021

Individual exhibition - Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt

 

2021/22

Group exhibition - „Japonismus 2.0 - Landschaft im Zeichen Japans“, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen

 

2022

Group exhibition - „Inspiration Japan“, Schloss Bondorf