Manu De Mey was born in Antwerp in 1965, his mother a British artist and his father a
Flemish accountant.
He started creating digital graphic art as a hobby in 2008. In September 2017, he
experienced a creative epiphany at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, USA. Less
than a week later, he enrolled in art school and began drawing and painting.
With his art, Manu tries to create something visually striking and convey a strong emotion.
His portraits often are ambiguous and this is mostly intentional. Manu’s world is populated
with vulnerable, melancholic people with suppressed emotion.
Manu has had several expositions all over the world, including Antwerp, Brussels,
Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Italy, Monaco, Kopenhagen, Cairo, China and Taiwan.
