Education

Born: 1954. Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan
1976 Graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad
1977-1982 BA & MA from Academy of Fine Arts,
          Ljubljana, Slovenia.

One Man Exhibition

2011  Rose Issa Projects, London
          XVA Gallery, Dubai
          Merg Gallery, Erbil, 
2010  Sardam gallery, Sulaimania
          Duhok Gallery, Duhok
2009  XVA Gallery, Dubai 
2008  Leighton House Museum, London
2004  Salman’s Gallery. Duhok
2002  Arcola Gallery, London
2001  Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
1998  Diorama Gallery, London
1996  Leighton House Museum, London
1992  Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham

Group Exhibitions

2011  54th Venice Art Biennale, Pavilion of Iraq
          'Take care of yourself' Amed Art Gallery, Diyarbakir, Turkey
2010  Taswir,- Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam 
          Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin
2009  PlanetK, The 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice 
          " Iraq's Past Speaks to the Present" at the British Museum, London [2008-2009].
          Modernism and Iraq, Miriam & Ira Wallach Art Gallery, 
          Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
          Taswir,- Pictorial Mappings of Modernity and Islam Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum,Berlin
2008  Permanent art collection, Imperial War Museum, London
          " Occupied Space 08, Art for Palestine", Qattan Foundation, London
          18th  Istanbul International Art Fair, 
          Word into art, Dubai International Finance Centre
          Space Now, The Triangle, London
          “Re-Orientations” at the European Parliament, Brussels
2006  The British Museum, London
2004  Contemporary Arts Society, London
          The Museum Hall, Sulaymania, 
2003  The  National Museum in Cracow, Poland
2002  The Historical Museum of The City of  Vienna
          10th Asian Art Biennale, Dahka, Bngladesh
2001  International Art Biennale Dialogue, St.Petersburg, Russia                                                              
          5th Sharjah International Arts Biennal, Sharjah, UAE
2000  Galerie De Boog, Ijsselstein, The Netherland
          Thing, The Garret Centre, London
1999  The 9th International Biennale of Prints & Drawings Taiwan
          XIV Premio Internazional Biella Per L’incisione,   Biella, Italy
          Towards the Millennium, Artsway, UK
          Pilonava Galeria, Ajdovscina, Slovenia
1998  Cheltenham Open Drawing ’98 touring to Hall and Berlin
1997  The 8th International Biennale of Prints & Drawings Taiwan
1996  10th International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany
          Contemporary Art Collection, Imperial War Museum, London,
          Under Different Skies, Oksenhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Public Collection

The British Museum, London
The Imperial War Museum, London
The national Gallery of Amman, Jordan
The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Iraq Memory Foundation
Art for American Embassy program, USA

Publications

2011 Contemporary Practises, Volume VIII
2010  Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran
2009  Modernism and Iraq, exhibition catalogue.
          Planet K, Catalogue. Collateral event of  53rd Venice international Biennale 
2009  Khaleej Times
          Southeby’s Contemporary Art, Arab & Iranian Art
2008  The British Museum, Iraq’s ‘Past speaks to the Present’
          Land on Fire, exhibition catalogue, Rose Issa Projects, Leighton house Museum, London
          Reorientations, Contemporary Arab presentations
          Southeby’s Contemporary Art, Arab & Iranian Art
2006 Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, british Museum Publication