Jonathan Yeo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetJonathan Yeo
British painter
Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1970
Place of Birth: London
Profession: painter
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Jonathan Yeo
- Jonathan Yeo (born 18 December 1970 in London, England) is a British artist who rose to international prominence in his early 20s as a contemporary portraitist, having painted Kevin Spacey, Dennis Hopper, Cara Delevingne, Damien Hirst, Prince Philip, Erin O'Connor, Tony Blair, and David Cameron among others.
- GQ has called him ‘one of the worlds most in-demand portraitists’.
- He was educated at Westminster School. His unauthorised 2007 portrait of George W.
- Bush, created from cuttings of pornographic magazines brought him worldwide notoriety, shown in London, New York and Los Angeles. Yeo's 2016 mid-career survey at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle followed a retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2013 and the Lowry in Manchester in 2014.Yeo was the subject of a BBC Culture Show Special in September 2013.
- The monograph The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo, featuring works from throughout his career, was published by London-based publisher Art / Books in the same month.His paintings are included within the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, and The Royal Collection. In February 2016, Yeo's portrait of the actor Kevin Spacey in the role of President Francis J.
- Underwood, from the Netflix series House of Cards, was unveiled at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
- Spacey unveiled the painting in character as the fictional President Underwood, joking "I'm pleased the Smithsonian continues to prove itself as a worthwhile institution.
- I'm one step closer to convincing the rest of the country that I am the president." Netflix made a short film of the collaboration between the museum, actor, and artist to promote the fourth season of House of Cards, which premiered that same evening.In March 2016, Yeo's largest retrospective to date opened at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark.
- A new series of paintings of the actor and model Cara Delevingne was unveiled at the museum as part of the exhibition.
- This series of portraits was made over an eighteen-month period and is concerned with image making and performed identity.
- Yeo said: “the way we manipulate and read self-portrait images, or ‘selfies’, in the last five years has far more in common with the activity of the 16th-century portrait artists and audiences than any art movement since the birth of photography".
- A portrait of the former Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, was also unveiled at the opening of this exhibition and will remain at the museum as part if its permanent collection.
- A new monograph, titled ‘In The Flesh’, was published by the museum to accompany the show.
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