[image: An aligned vision (2024) oil on linen 78 inches x 64 inches]


Abdul Abdullah is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist. As a self-described ‘outsider amongst outsiders’ with a post 9/11 mindset, his practice is primarily concerned with the experience of the ‘other’. Abdullah’s projects have engaged with different marginalized minority groups and he is particularly interested in the disjuncture between perception/projection of identity and the reality of lived experience. Identifying as a Muslim and having both Malay/Indonesian and convict/settler Australian heritage, Abdullah occupies a precarious space in the political discourse that puts him at odds with popular definitions. He sees himself as an artist working in the peripheries of a peripheral city, in a peripheral country, orbiting a world on the brink. His work has been censored by politicians who have accused him of attacking Australian culture, and once a member of the Christian Democratic party wrote that he wants to “convert young Australians” and that he “worships a moon god”.


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Instagram: @abdul_abdullah

Current and upcoming projects:

Of dreams and contemplation I am all but a story
The Private Museum, Singapore
January 9 - March 9, 2025

Art Basel Hong Kong
Ames Yavuz, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
March 28 - 30, 2025