Samson Kebede was born in Addis Ababa in 1987.He graduated from Addis Ababa university school of fine arts and design in 2012.
He also attend his theology program in St George church for four years. During that time he was interested on Ethiopian traditional painting.
Concerning his works, it is about Ethiopian traditional painting specially, ‘’Telsem’’. Which is fascinating art form, because it has different dimensions including cosmic science (astronomy, astrology), linguistic and also the aspect of healing power, which makes it able to be considered as one of the mechanisms for art Therapy.