In 2012, he collaborated with Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré on producing a unique series of paintings exhibited in Abidjan.
In 2017 Abdoulaye collaborated with British internationally acclaimed painter Christian Furr, producing works between New York, London and Abidjan.
[3] In 2012 and 2014, Abdoulaye's work was exhibited in the Ivory Coast, at the Galerie Cécile Fakhoury in Abidjan,[4] as well as Europe and North America, and bought by influential contemporary art collectors including Charles Saatchi, Jean Pigozzi and Frank Cohen.
Many in the art world relate his work to Jean-Michel Basquiat,[6] who was the first black American who gained fame for his contemporary paintings with African characteristics.
[5] In fact, the riots that followed the disputed Ivorian presidential election in late 2010 greatly influenced Aboudia's painting.
[7] While some artists chose to flee the civil war, Aboudia decided to stay and continue working despite the danger.
He worked in an artist's studio right next to the Golf Hotel [Ouattara's headquarters during the post-electoral crisis]; he could hear the bullets zipping through the air while he painted.
[9] Aboudia depicts fevered landscapes and street scenes populated by childlike figures in his graffiti like style.
[7] Aboudia's multi-layered paintings offer a simultaneity of images and meanings that conduct a continuous discourse with each other and with the viewer.
There would be simple drawings on the walls, done by the youth using charcoal, mostly of cars, televisions, status symbols, statements and saying; children are seen as the weakest, not taken seriously and left alone in the world.