Abdul Vas was born in Maracay, Venezuela in 1981 and grew up living between Surinam, Guyana, and Belgium. He studied Fine Arts at EAVRA, Maracay, and later at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. He has created handmade books and zines, photographs, drawings, paintings, murals, and installations. Since 2004, he has realized several solo exhibitions for commercial galleries in Europe and America. In 2009 he was selected for the Beijing Biennale; in the same year, he exhibited My 57 States AC/DC (Georgetown, Guyana). Since 2010 he has been working on the project North-American Truckers and AC/DC Power, exhibited at Disk Union (Tokyo, Japan).