“We all have a shared experience called humanity. Art offers a window into showing that.”
- Sorenski
Zagreb, Croatia, 2024
Artist Biography
Søren Thielemann
aka Sorenski
Born 1970, Denmark
Sorenski is a Danish/American abstract figurative painter whose work explores the emotional and symbolic dimensions of the human experience through narrative-driven imagery. He works in oil and acrylic on canvas, as well as ink on large-sized paper, creating visually rich pieces filled with symbolism and conceptual depth.
He studied language and political science in Denmark before earning a BA in Fine Arts in the United States. For 20+ years, he worked as an art director at leading advertising agencies in Miami, New York, Chicago, and across Europe, producing award-winning campaigns recognized on two continents.
This background in communication and design inspires his artistic practice. He draws on a deep curiosity about people and culture, and uses his travels to gather impressions, encounters, and personal stories that later emerge in his work. His process often begins with simple conversations and observational sketches, as he seeks to capture a specific story or moment and translate it into visual narratives about human interaction and connection.
Sorenski’s art is featured at galleries in Miami and Denmark, has completed numerous commissions, participated in group exhibitions, and been featured in magazines and articles for his distinctive style and stories in his paintings.
He is based in Miami, Florida, but currently lives in Mérida, Mexico, where he is working on new work, exploring humans as trophies and the emotional and cultural meaning of human embrace.
Artist Statement
I drift between hemispheres—Danish bones, American breath. I am a painter, sometimes an illustrator, but above all, a storyteller, who’s exploring the space between what we show and what we hide. My art is an echo chamber of emotions, where joy and sorrow sit side by side, balancing light and heaviness at the same time.
I do not paint to be admired. I paint to provoke, to stir, to startle—
to invite viewers into a quiet dialogue about hunger, power, faith, and identity. Themes of greed, injustice, and the fragile threads holding cultures together unravel gently beneath my layered messages and hidden symbolism.
Rooted in graphic design, I fracture form with precision.
My language: black-and-white linework interrupted by unruly floods of color, building a visual dialect of structured chaos, deliberate dissonance.
In my world, art is not a window. It is a mirror—sometimes warped, sometimes brutally honest, always asking: Where do you stand in this story?
Group shows
Bitton Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 2025
Studio 88, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2024
Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, 2021
Magnum Opus, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, California, 2020
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, 2020
Gallery Liisberg, Denmark 2019
Hilton Contemporary, Chicago, 2017
His Graphic design work has been featured in national TV, magazines, newspapers, and installations in the United States, Denmark, and France.
Interview with Canvas Rebel Magazine
2024
Interview with Sorenski
by Studio 88 Artist Residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand
