Yann Kebbi is a French artist from Montreuil, Paris. Yann draws prolifically, filling sketchbooks with drawings on his travels or in the intimate company of friends and family. His subjects are mostly people, and often landscapes. His work moves between watercolour, ink, coloured pencils and pen on location, to engravings and monotypes created in the studio.
Yann’s artworks have appeared in L’Uomo Vogue, M le magazine du Monde, The New York Times and The New Yorker amongst others. His commercial projects span book covers, to packaging and identities. He recently created a mural for Mailchimp’s new headquarters in Atlanta, he has an ongoing collaboration with Foundation Cartier and he regularly exhibits his original drawings, etchings and prints. He was invited on set by Mike Mills to draw during the filming of ‘C’mon C’mon’ and the artworks Yann created based on a drawing trip to Las Vegas were published by Louis Vuitton in ‘Yann Kebbi: Las Vegas’ part of a growing series of travel monographs from artists around the world.
In 2025 Yann was awarded the inagural prize of Françoise Cauvin-Monet at the Académie des beaux-arts, a new award recognising the work of an Artist working in the medium of drawing
"j'aime bien le train, on a le temps de regarder"
"I like the train, we have time to look"
A book of drawings and monprints published by Éditions 2042
In a collaboration between The RATP (the transportation of Paris) and Fondation Cartier, Yann's artworks have been installed in Galerie Valois, the former shopping arcade that connects the Palais-Royal - Musée due Louvre metro station with the former Grands Magasins du Louvre department store
The writer/director and visual artist, Mike Mills (Beginners, 20th Century Women) invited Yann Kebbi to join the production of his film ‘C’mon C’mon’, to draw the locations and actors during the shoot
Published by A24 and designed by Actual Source, ‘C’mon C’mon: Drawings from the Set’ is a new 176-page book containing a curated selection of Yann's drawings, accompanied by an introduction and set anecdotes from Mike Mills
“Yann nicely agreed to come to set in Los Angeles and New Orleans, hang out with us day in and day out, and draw what he felt like drawing, not what I directed him to. He drew and drew and drew. I was surprised by how much he drew. It was magic having him drawing on set, often right in the mix of the camera crew, enchanting all of us with his human-hand-eye process of drawing”
Mike Mills, Director
In April 2022, Yann Kebbi spent a week in Las Vegas. It was an opportunity to immerse himself in the city and start to formulate a plan for the Travel Book he'd been invited to create by Julien Guerrier, part of a growing series of travel monographs by artists from around the world published by Louis Vuitton
In October 2025, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain inaugurated its new exhibition spaces at 2, place du Palais-Royal in Paris. On the occasion, the Fondation Cartier invited artist Yann Kebbi to revisit its past through an exceptional series of eighteen drawings inspired by the emblematic exhibitions that have marked its history since its creation in 1984
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