Mikey Yates

b. 1992, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany. Mikey Yates is a Kansas City-based artist whose paintings provide intimate snapshots of daily life. Yates’s paintings are gentle, showing moments between family and friends in settings that feel deeply personal and relatable. The Filipino-American artist grew up moving from place to place as the child of two parents in the military, and his family of six appears often throughout his work. (Courtesy of Artsy).