Jean David Nkot, Cameroonian visual artist, was born in Douala where he currently resides and works. He first received his BAC diploma in plastic arts in 2010 at the Institute of Artistic Training of Mbalmayo (IFA) and then joined the Institute of Fine Arts in Foumban where he obtained a degree in Applied Arts. Throughout his training, he attended the workshops of Hervé Youmbi, Salifou Lindou, Jean Jacques Kanté, Pascal Kenfack and Ruth Belinga. The artist cites the figurative emotive painters Zhang Dali, Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville as sources of inspiration. He uses a variety of mediums including paint, silk screen and India ink, to create profound portraits.

In this new work he questions the impact, the stakes and the origin of capitalism through the history of cotton but also that of humanity and the working conditions of blacks in the fields (cotton, coffee, cocoa). As Bernard-Marie Koltes stated in the case of the cotton fields « in the cotton fields what is often interesting are the cries of the blacks who do not necessarily express pain but the joy of being first of all oneself in human situations even dehumanised ». In this work he tells the story of violence, pain and frustrations of the conditions of blacks in the past through slavery and presently through the economic relations between the south and the north.

In 2022, he participated in the 1-54 in New York and Paris, ART X in Lagos, and presented several solo exhibitions, including one in Paris and one in Johannesburg. In 2023, he is preparing two new solo exhibitions including one in Brussels and one in Paris.