JONATHAN YEO

Jonathan Yeo was born in London in 1970 and taught himself to paint while recovering from illness in his early twenties. He has since become one of the leading portrait artists of his generation.

Alongside his portraits, Yeo has developed bodies of work using fragments taken from pornographic magazines. These collages examine how bodies are represented and consumed while revealing and concealing their source material at the same time. His sitters have included artists, actors, political figures and members of the British royal family.

Circle Culture presented Yeo’s first major Berlin exhibition, (I’ve Got You) Under My Skin, in 2012. The gallery followed this with Exposure in Hamburg in 2015 and has continued to present his work through exhibitions and projects in Germany.