Yasmine Samir Borro

Yasmine Samir Borro is a Belgian contemporary artist creating vivid mixed-media worlds inhabited by human, animal and imagined figures. Born and raised in Ivory Coast, she is based in Brussels. Painting has been a constant in her life since early childhood. At the age of five, she won a drawing competition in Ivory Coast and appeared on television to speak about her work.

Her upbringing in a family with a longstanding engagement with African art forms part of the cultural context of her independent practice.

Working across painting and mixed media, Borro builds layered surfaces using acrylic, drawing, ink and textured relief. Her compositions are inhabited by hybrid figures—part human, part animal, part imagined—whose identities remain deliberately open.

At the centre of her practice is the ongoing series Imaginary Friends, in which childhood memories become spaces for transformation, freedom and invention. Bold colour, rhythmic lines, tactile surfaces, recurring faces, masks and symbolic forms give the works an immediate presence while inviting a slower, more intimate reading.

In L’Art pour tous, she reworks illustrated pages through colour, drawn contours and layered forms. This series of original works on paper brings inheri...

Fashion studies in Brussels and Paris. Self-taught contemporary artist. Painting has been central to her practice since early childhood.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 — The Vault Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium — three-month presentation of selected work.
2013 — Street Talk, Minus 1, Beirut, Lebanon — group exhibition.
Galerie des Dominicains, Brussels, Belgium — exhibition.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS
2026 — Espace Centsix, Brussels, Belgium — selected paintings presented in the space; documented in a post published by the venue on 14 July 2026.