Hervé Gabriel Ngamago Youmbi, born in Bangui on March 25, 1973, is a Cameroonian artist who lives and works in Douala. He is a founding member of the Cercle Kapsiki, a collective of five Cameroonian artists, founded in 1998.

Portraiture has played a pivotal role in Youmbi’s oeuvre; focusing on the human body as an expression of everyday experience, Youmbi asks fundamental questions about the urban experience: the cities he inhabits, cities he passes through and others he dreams of knowing, places that are both the subject and the medium – the raw materials – of his practice.

Herve’ Youmbi is represented by Axis Gallery, NYC