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Jwan Yosef (born 1984) is a Swedish painter and artist. He specializes in plastic arts and is based in London, England.
Yosef is of Syrian ancestry. 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 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. He participated in the Threadneedle Prize exhibition 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. He is a founding member and studio holder at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation in Archway, North London.
Personal life
Jwan Yosef was born in Ras al-Ayn, Syria to a Kurdish Muslim father and an Armenian Christian mother. 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 São Paulo, Brazil, he announced publicly his relationship with Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin. They are engaged to be married.
