Explore: Michael Armitage

(1984 - )

Born in 1984 in Nairobi, Kenya, to a Yorkshireman father and Kenyan mother of Kikuyu ancestry, Michael Armitage spent his childhood in east Africa before moving to London when he was 16, and later studying at the Slade School of Fine Art and Royal Academy Schools. He now works between London, Bali and Nairobi and has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally.