Born in 1990 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Justin de Verteuil began his education with an informal tutorship under Edward Bowen in 2012 in Trinidad before attending the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2014 as a guest student in the class of Peter Doig. His time at the academy was divided between the class of Siegfried Anzinger from 2015-2020 and Katherina Wulff between 2020-2023. Justin was awarded as Meisterschüler in 2019 by Siegfried Anzinger.