Muluken Gorfu was born in 1994 in the small village of Kirkos in Addis Ababa. After leaving formal education, he began a painting course at ‘Abyssinia Arts Centre’ to pursue his passion for painting and drawing. At the center, he was taught painting/ drawing by the well-known Ethiopian painter-teachers Worku Mamo, Girma Agegnehu and Girma Seboka whereas he attended graphic art sessions from the great ‘Gash Abebe’.
Muluken enjoys playing with lines as a distinctive style, which had become his “mother-tongue language” to speak about his inner ambitions, happiness and frustrations. Lines have become the lenses through which Muluken observes the society he grew up and lives in. Muluken hopes and works towards putting his mark in Ethiopian modern paining.