Ryan Abreu

Ryan Francis Abreu was born in Panjim, Goa. He completed his BFA in Painting from Goa College of Art in 2010 and a Masters in Printmaking from Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda in 2014. He has experience in graphic art and has won many gold medals early in his career as an artist. He works solo and also in group exhibitions.

His works have been showcased across the globe. Some exhibitions are namely, Inter Auid International Print Biennale, Stefan Balog, Romania (2014), Ex Libris Exhibition, Restored Lithuania – 100, Vilnius, Lithuania (2018), Outotsu Hanten, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan and Ex Vino Ex Veritas, exhibition of small graphic prints, Ex Libris, Lyuben Karavelov Regional Library, Bulgaria (2016).

Abreu explores narrations that lie between the genre of dark humour and allegory in his art. Through a personal tryst, he produces images with somber and grotesque characteristics, in order to script a visual language that lead to revelations. Social afflictions are visually encoded with symbolised meanings rather than its literal ones, in the process taxing the viewer. The fragile events from yesteryears and the future predictions of change in dynamics within the personal realm and that of society stand parallel. 

Abreu lives and works in Tiswadi, Goa.