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Kenneth E. J. Pils

Kenneth E.J. Pils is a contemporary artist from Sweden. He was born in 1964 in Jönköping and raised in Huskvarna until 1983 when his first art training began in Vellinge in the southern part of Sweden. After studies at the Art Academy in Stockholm, he now lives and works in Stockholm. The last name Pils is originally from Austria (the father). 1987, during his studies at National College of Art in Stockholm, he met his love, the artist Lotte Nilsson Välimaa with whom he has made numerous art projects. He is involved in several artist-run activities like Studio 44 and Supermarket Art Fair.

He is an artist firmly rooted in a painting that moves in a borderland where the painting touches and blend together with installation, sculpture and graphics. The motives revolves around the formation of self/identity and how the notion of the self affect the perception of the outside world.

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