Shadi Abousada, born in 1983 in Sweida City, Syria, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University in 2008. He is a painter, installation, and video artist whose work explores the complex socio-political reality and absurdity of his cultural environment. Through symbolic gestures and motifs, Abousada introduces playful and surreal elements into his art.
Since 2006, Shadi Abousada's works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in galleries in the UK, Netherlands, the UAE, Qatar, Switzerland, and France and many more.