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.

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

Sites:

Ig: @aboudfares @masshaus.art

You can visit him at MassHaus Friday to Sunday October 16th to 18th 11am to 6pm daily. For a sneaky preview click here!