Artworks by Aboud Fares

Aboud Fares (b. 1988, Damascus) is an artist based in Penang, Malaysia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University (2010), and has been working as a full-time artist since relocating to Malaysia in 2015. While rooted in sculpture, his practice engages with iron and steel, exploring abstraction, balance, and the quiet tension between form and emptiness.

Alongside his metal sculptures, Aboud has, in recent years, incorporated 3D printing and digital fabrication into his practice. These processes are used not as replacements for hand-built sculpture, but as tools for experimentation, allowing forms to be tested, fragmented, repeated, or scaled before, during, or beyond their physical realization. This hybrid approach reflects an ongoing interest in how technology can extend sculptural thinking.

His work moves between autonomous sculptures, installation-based projects, and functional forms, often blurring the boundary between object and presence. Recent explorations have also included digital and augmented reality works, expanding how sculpture can be experienced beyond physical space and reflecting an increasingly multidisciplinary approach to making.

In 2025, he founded MassHaus, a studio and gallery space conceived as both a working space and a platform for exhibitions, experimentation, and dialogue. MassHaus reflects Aboud’s interest in process, scale, and community, serving as a site where making, showing, and exchanging ideas coexist.

His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Malaysia and internationally, and has been featured in regional media. His sculptures and installations are held in the collections of several museums, private institutions, and collectors in Malaysia and abroad. Rather than prescribing meaning, Aboud’s work invites open interpretation, encouraging viewers to encounter the work on their own terms.

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions

2026

On My Mind, MassHaus, Penang, Malaysia

2025

Gaze Down, Float Up, MassHaus, Penang, Malaysia

2023

Echoes, Artas Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2022

NOW (Solo AR Exhibition), Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

2019

UNTiiTLED, ChinaHouse, Penang, Malaysia

2018

Faces, Keeni Kessler KKG (Pinghub), Malaysia

2016

Untitled, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

Group Exhibitions

2026

Silhouettes (with James Seet), Harta Space, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaAArt Shanghai City Art Fair, Artemis Art, Shanghai, China.2026 Art Fair Philippines, Artemis Art, Manila, Philippines.

2025

Borderless Voices: Expanding Horizons, Artemis Art @ ChinaHouse, Penang, MalaysiaConvergence, Artemis Art @ Nalarroepa Ruang Seni, Yogyakarta, Indonesia1000 Tiny Art Works, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang, MalaysiaThis Is ____, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

2023

Lembaran Exhibition, Artas Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaOff Spaces In Between, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang & Zhan Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2022

Tu7oh Exhibition, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang & Temu House, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2021

Langur Exhibition, Penang State Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

2020

BOXED IN (One Foot at a Time), Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery & Online, Penang, MalaysiaBELANG Exhibition, Penang State Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia

2019

The 8″ by 6″ Project II, City Hall & KL Performing Arts Centre, Gallery Weekend KL, MalaysiaKecik-Kecik Group Exhibition, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang, MalaysiaThe 8″ × 6″ Project, Project 26 Art Space, Penang, MalaysiaREKA Exhibition, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia3 Elements Group Exhibition, Penang State Art Gallery, Penang, MalaysiaArtEDecor Art Fair, MATRADE Exhibition & Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2017

Revisit Exhibition, Hin Bus Depot Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia