Michael Soi Fine Artist Portfolio

Michael Soi (1972) -- Fine Art

Artist Profile

Michael Soi is a Fine Artist.

Micheal Soi

Born in 1972, Michael lives and works in Nairobi Kenya.

Michael worked with Kuona Trust from 1996 to 2009. He was incharge of international exchange as a codinator of the wasanii international artists workshop and The international artist residency in kenya.

Michael has since left kuona to concentrate in his artistic career.

His work is experiments with collages that are based on inspiration from his many travels here and there.

He says of himself 'My work mostly touches on issues related to the youth like fashion trends, music and life in general.'

Michael graduated from art school in 1996. He works as a full time artist in Nairobi kenya. He says his work is as simple as can be. “I try to create an attitude of what you see might be what you get from it. “I am involved in work that deletes, distorts and changes various images into what I want them to be, and am excited by the subtle play that erasure seems to create when executed in certain ways.

“My work is not about the suppression of images or distortion, or the negation of what the image represents, but is about obscuring the images in order to create a different relationship between the final piece and the viewer.

Exhibitions

Complicated socialization- Goethe institute Nairobi

Ashes- French cultural and cooperation centre-Nairobi

First residency-Nairobi museum

African art- Paris France

Africa- Salt Lake City Utah

Small towns- unep Nairobi

Best of Kuona – Nairobi museum

Kenya museum arts festival- Nairobi museum

Contemporary Kenyan art- Vienna Austria

Kenya museum arts festival- Nairobi

Best of Kuona – Nairobi museum

Wasanii 2000- Nairobi museum

Concepts-Vienna Austria

Workshop output-ipsden park oxford shire United Kingdom

Inner space blue rhino Nairobi

Kenya museum arts festival- Nairobi museum

Home-French cultural and co-operation center Nairobi

Spirit of friendship- midlands art center-Birmingham United Kingdom

South Africa national gallery- Cape Town South Africa

Untitled, with Spanish artist Miguel Costales-Ramoma museum of modern art Nairobi

The 3 some with Kenyan painter Beatrice Wanjiku-Godown art centre gallery

God’s kitchen with Kenyan artist Ogonga Thom-Gallery of contemporary African art

Untitled with Kenyan painter Susan Mucoki-Alliance francaise in Nairobi

Guns and roses-Ramoma museum of modern art Nairobi

Girls in the cit-Nairobi Java house

Untitled-Gallery of contemporary east African art

Workshops

Aftershave international artists workshop       Jos,   Nigeria

Abro international artist’s workshop           Addis Ababa,   Ethiopia

Triangle international artist’s workshop       New York , United States

Insaka international artists workshop          Lusaka, Zambia

Thupelo international artists workshop         Cape Town, South Africa

Brazier’s international artist’s workshop      Ipsden, United Kingdom

Wasanii international artist’s workshop        Naivasha, Kenya

Web design- British council                      Dar es Salaam,Tanzania

Residency

Fonty’s academy artist in residency            Tilburg, the Netherlands

Vivid media artist in residency                Birmingham, United Kingdom

Fordsburg artist’s in residency (bag factory) Johannesburg , South Africa

First international residency programme        Naivasha, Kenya

Education

Diploma in fine art and art history 1990-1993

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