Executed at a young age of 19 years old, the early paintings of Raja Shahriman exhibit imaginative sculptural forms that reflect the internal state. Although it was painted at the start of his career, the work’s bold experimentation of shapes and colours display stylistic sophistication. In Keganasan, Raja Shahriman utilizes the landscape as a site of contemplation to explore the contradictions and paradoxes of the human condition. Raja Shahriman’s works cover the spectrum of Nature, Religion and Culture, and are all rooted in Malayness, first captured the imagination with his Killing Tools (1994) in the Killing Tools, Lalang and Warbox exhibition. He used metal scraps for linear anatomical constructs. He had his first solo, Gerak Tempur, in 1996. He enrolled as a Painting major at the Mara Institute of Technology but switched to Sculpture in the fifth semester, graduating in 1990. In 1994, after three years of teaching at the Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA), he returned to his hometown Kuala Kangsar. He was honoured with solo shows at Pelita Hati Gallery of Art, Galeri Petronas, National Art Gallery Malaysia.