Rhyan Abud began drawing when he was 3rd yr high school, copying faces featured in newspapers. He also dabbled in animation and honed his imagination with escapist cartooning. Abud tried his hand with oil paints two years into college and soon found it was his preferred medium. He quickly warmed to realism and surrealism, then developed a particular taste for social realism which he finds both mentally and aesthetically challenging to himself and his viewers.

Abud toys with dark backgrounds, contrasting his subject matter with sinister hues that are pregnant with meaning. His interest with a variety of social issues and fantasies permeates his work in vivid form, and the emotional quality of his art elicits deep and varied responses from his viewers. His powerful images not only speak but question in return.