Jwan Yosef
Jwan Yosef (born 1984) is a Kurdish[1] Swedish painter and artist of plastic arts based in London, England.[2][3]
His family immigrated to Sweden where he studied painting in Pernby School of Painting in Stockholm between 2004 and 2006, then moved to Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm[4] where he graduated with a BA in Fine Arts in 2009. He earned an MA in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, London in 2011.
Yosef has taken part in a great number of art fairs and group exhibitions. He held two solo exhibitions in 2013 titled Painting about Sex, Flesh and Violence, lol at the DIVUS Gallery in London and High Notes, at the Galleri Anna Thulin, Stockholm.[5][6] He was awarded the Threadneedle Prize in 2013 and the BEERS Contemporary Award for Emerging Art both in 2013. In 2015 he exhibited at Galleri Bon with group exhibition There and Back Again with fellow Konstfack graduates Josef Bull, Petr Davydtchenko and Natasja Loutchko.[7] He is a founding member and studio holder at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation in Archway, North London.[8]
Personal life
Jwan Yosef was born in Syria to a Kurdish family.[9] His name means handsome, beautiful and young in Kurdish. He is openly gay. In April 2016, during the amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research gala in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he announced publicly his association with Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin.[10][11] Martin has fathered two boys Valentino and Matteo and had been in a four-year relationship with businesssman Carlos Gonzalez Abella before they declared their separation in 2014.[12]
References
- ↑ http://www.umagmag.com/2015/08/a-conversation-with-artist-jwan-yosef/
- ↑ Beat Magazine: Jwan Yosef - Portraits of Absence
- ↑ Kaltblut: Interview with Jwan Yosef
- ↑ C Print: There and Back Again
- ↑ SvD: Spegelvända bilder fångar tystnaden (Swedish)
- ↑ Kunstkritikk (Norwegian)
- ↑ Galleri Bon: Dit och tillbaks igen (Swedish)
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- ↑ U+Mag: A conversation with artist Jwan Yosef
- ↑ ET Online: Ricky Martin Makes Glamorous Red Carpet Debut With New Boyfriend Jwan Yosef
- ↑ Paris Match: Ricky Martin officialise avec son petit ami, Jwan Yosef (French)
- ↑ Tetu: Ricky Martin a un nouveau petit ami, Jwan Yosef (French)
