Aboudia was born on October 21,1983, in Cote d'Ivoire, and graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Bingerville in 2003.
12 Facts About Aboudia
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Aboudia first reached an international audience during the siege of Abidjan in 2011, when the conflict came close to his studio.
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Aboudia has done various solo shows with galleries in New York, London, Barcelona, Copenhagen and more.
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Aboudia was kicked out of his childhood home by his father once it was known that Abdoulaye wanted to become an artist.
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Aboudia's mother gave him the last of his savings to complete a scholarship.
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Aboudia is influenced by a synthesis of American avant-garde traditions and the graffiti in the communities where he lives.
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Aboudia worked in an artist's studio right next to the Golf Hotel [Ouattara's headquarters during the post-electoral crisis]; he could hear the bullets zipping through the air while he painted.
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Aboudia's body of work, which he describes as "nouchi", is a tribute to the essence of dreams and language.
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Aboudia uses materials within easy reach to express the maximum depth of content with a minimum of resources.
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Aboudia's goal was to create a record of Cote d'Ivoire's recent history.
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Aboudia views creating art as a means of attempting to understand current events.
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Aboudia depicts fevered landscapes and street scenes populated by childlike figures in his graffiti like style.