Jean David Nkot was born in 1985 in Douala, Cameroon, where he currently lives and works. In 2010, he completed a BAC in Fine Arts at the Institute of Artistic Training of Mbalmayo (IFA). He then joined the Foumban Institute of Fine Arts where he obtained a degree in drawing/painting. During his training, he also attended the workshops of his elders, Hervé YOUMBI, Salifou LINDOU, Jean Jacques KANTÉ, Pascal KENFACK and Ruth BELINGA. He is also the winner of several artistic awards. His work quickly became the subject of numerous exhibitions, notably in the Doual'art space in 2014. 2016 was a turning point with the exhibition in "Fleur de peau" and his participation in numerous international events such as RAVY, YIA, BIND and Bandjoun Station . In 2017, he presented "The said and the unsaid" to the public on the occasion of SUD2017, the urban fair in Douala. On the trompe l'oeil façade of the house in Nkongmondo by Ruben Um Nyobe typographic excerpts from his speech at the UN. In the same year, he joined the postmaster "Moving Frontiers" organised by the National Art School of Paris-Cergy on the theme of borders. In 2018, three solo exhibitions were held, one in London at Jack Bell Gallery "Mental Maps" and in Paris "Jeux de Clowns" at Carole Kvasnevski Gallery and "Jeux de Malos" at the International City of Arts.

A painter of the human condition, Cameroonian Jean David Nkot’s work is easily recognisable, with his hyperrealist portraits over mapped backgrounds. He builds through his work, the archives of the anonymous of his time. He exposes the faces history will forget. Those the governments ignore. Workers, migrants, but above all, human beings.