A Syrian born in 1988 in Damascus, Aboud Fares is a young sculptor with a B.A. in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University, obtained in 2010. After graduating, he joined the Syrian Plastic Artists’ Union and started his own workshop beside teaching as a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Now he is a full-time artist based in Penang, working in his private workshop, using mostly iron to create abstract forms and creatures which might be related to living creatures somewhere in our universe. after few years residing on the island, he has had two solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions, aiming to spread among Asia’s art scene.