“We all have a shared experience called humanity. Art offers a wonderful window into showing that.”​
- Sorenski
Zagreb, Croatia, 2024
Artist Biography
Søren Thielemann
aka Sorenski
Born 1970, Denmark
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Sorenski studied language and political science in Denmark before earning a BA in Fine Art in the United States in 1997. 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.
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This background in design and communication inspires his artistic practice, which blends storytelling, symbolism, and layered meaning. He works in oil and acrylic on canvas, as well as ink on large-sized paper. Through his art, Søren weaves narratives of the human condition, capturing love, loss, injustice, and the profound effects of political and social change.
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During his artist residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand, he developed a distinctive style that merges his ink doodles with acrylic/oil on canvas—a technique that defines much of his current work. Since then, his curiosity about culture and people has led him to spend the past two years traveling across Asia, Europe, and Central America, painting and seeking inspiration for his latest series about human interaction.
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Sorenski 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's working on the "Trophies" and "Hugs" series.
Artist Statement
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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
