Oltsen Gripshi was born in 1984 in Peqin, Albania. In 2006 he graduated from G.B Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts, in Verona, Italy. In 2009 he graduated from Padova State University, finishing his Professional Master; in 2010 he completed a Second Level Specialization at the G.B Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts, in Verona. From 2013 he is attending the doctoral school at the Center for Albanology Studies. He has been awarded many international prizes. Exhibition comes as a constant search of the artist, reflected in the way he sees and interprets culture and the identity of the human being, using the language of contemporary art. His artistic philosophical approach is that surreal-conceptual language, applying it with various medias such: painting on canvas, video art and installation. Through a semiotic approach in his paintings, the artist takes a look at the chiaroscuros of contemporary man, probing deep into his sensitivities, emotions, fears, anxieties, Eros, timidity, age or virginity as a phenomenon in the Albanian society. His is a genuine radiography of the human being, in a frontal relation with reality and its phenomenology. Gripshi’s work, creates a suspended situation between the geographical and intellectual boundary, and symbolically conveys the fragility between memory and oblivion, concept and imagination. In addition to symbolic means, his work is complemented by the exploration of such issues that bear corrosive institutional criticism, recalling at the center of attention the contemporary artist’s concern about environment, the politics’ demagogy, and social and cultural developments in Albania.