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Aboudia

Aboudia (Born 1983) is active/lives in New York / Africa.  Aboudia is known for Painting.

Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, widely known as Aboudia, has risen to the attention of the international artworld with his dynamic renderings of the street culture of his native Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Born in 1983, Aboudia left home at the age of 15 to study at the Centre Technique des Arts Appliqués in Bingerville before graduating from the Abidjan Institut des Arts in 2005.

Now working between his native Abidjan and Brooklyn, New York, Aboudia recognizes the enduring influence of the visual imagery he encountered when growing up in the urban centre of the Côte d'Ivoire:"Kids in the street would write their dreams using crayons, sand, rocks, tiles – whatever they could find. Some drew houses and cars, others drew classrooms and gardens and families – mom and dad. All the things I had missed in life. And I said to myself that I would borrow the writings – and I mean borrow – it belongs to the kids in the street. I needed to deliver their message to exhibiti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8086 characters.]  Artist bio

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