Pehouet Soro was born on April 24 in 1980 in Tiassalé in the south of the Ivory Coast. He is a painter, a representatives of visual art and also a professor of Plastic Arts. After a few years of primary studies at the Catholic mission of St Martin of Agboville, he was admitted in 1997 to the Lycée d’Enseignement Artistique (L.E.A) of the National Higher Institute of Arts and Cultural Action (I.N.S.A.A.C) in Abidjan. Four years later he continued his studies and went to the Beaux-Arts de L’I. N.S.A.A.C in which he improved his execution with the brush through the training provided by his workshop masters.
After meeting Christian Jecquel, he merges his technique of the palette knife and that of the brush. In his paintings, he also uses the brush as the knife, thus obtaining his Diploma of Higher Artistic Study.
The very first exhibition in which he participated was a group exhibition entitled ‘The Masters of Tomorrow’ organized by the HOUKAMI GUYZAGN agency in 2006 and, the following year he won the Guy Nairay Grand Prix, always organized by the HOUKAMI GUYZAGN agency.
In 2008, he was at his first solo painting exhibition, this one entitled “Black Woman, African Woman” and, in 2009, he was selected to compete in the third edition of the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègre (FESTMAN III).
Then he took part in the permanent exhibition entitled ‘’ Petite Revue de l’Art Moderne et Contemporain en Côte d’Ivoire ’from 2011 to 2012.
Soro Pehouet likes to stage his compositions and through each canvas, he takes the viewer to the heart of a story. He first constructs each painting from pencil drawings where the areas of light and shadow are already easily distinguished before proceeding to the laying down of colors.