Born in 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Aboudia lives and works between Abidjan and Brooklyn.
A graduate of the Centre Technique des Arts Appliqués in Bingerville, Aboudia's work was widely reported in the international press in 2011 for its testimony to the fighting during the Ivorian crisis of 2010-2011.
In 2012, the Galerie Cécile Fakhoury brought together his work with that of Ivorian artist Fréderic Bruly Bouabré for its inaugural exhibition. Aboudia is now beginning to be recognised on the local and international scene.
Aboudia is inspired by the graffiti drawn by young people on the walls in the streets of Abidjan, particularly the working-class neighbourhoods of Abobo, Yopougon and Treichville. Aboudia examines everyday life in Côte d'Ivoire, with particular attention to its history of conflict. His work has a biographical and even protest content in the first series.
A cosmopolitan artist, Aboudia constantly moves between worlds and cultures and his works reveal the social realities of a changing African societý. Quickly his works are presented both in West Africa but also internationally, whether at the Benin Biennial 2012, the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, 2013), Galleria Continua (Spheres#7, 2014), or the Saatchi Gallery (Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America, London, 2014-2015) then Art Twenty One in Lagos (Chap-Chap, 2016).
Selected recent exhibitions: Tokyo, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, 2021), 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair (Marrakech, Morocco, 2020), Art X Lagos (Nigeria, 2019), Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, 2016 / Dakar, 2019), Piasa (Paris, 2017), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Marrackech, (Morocco, 2018 and 2019), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair London (UK, 2018).