Abdulaziz Ashour

2008

  • Personal Exhibition – Mamarat – AL Khozama Art Gallery- Riyadh.

2007

  • Personal Exhibition – Leaves & Drops. Jeddah.

2004

  • Prepared and supervised a collective workshop in the Omani Association for Plastic Arts –
  • Muscat Third Prize – Ammar International Symposium for Arts – Dubai.
  • Member of Hiwar Group Forum – Jeddah Literary Club.

2003

  • Founded the first live cultural forum in Jeddah, concerns with the issues of plastic arts and creativity.
  • Member of Fiction Club Group – Saudi Arabian Association for Culture and Arts in Jeddah.

2002

  • Personal Exhibition – … Al (Ma …) Jeddah.

2001

  • Personal Exhibition, Arts Palace – Cairo.

2000

  • Member of the High Committee for Saudi Colored Competition – Saudi Arabian Airlines – Fifth Session.

1999

  • Participated with a paper in the 3rd International Symposium equivalent to Sharjah Fourth Biennale in Arts – Sharjah – United Arab Emirates.
  • Ninth Asian Bangladesh Biennale Prize – Dacca.

1998

  • Personal Exhibition – “Before the After” – Jeddah.
  • Seventh International Cairo Biennale.
  • Member of the High Committee for Saudia Coloring Competition – Saudi Arabian Airlines – Fourth Session.

1997

  • Third International Sharjah Binalli.
  • Participated in the Tenth International Mahras Festival – Tunisia.

1996

  • Represented the Kingdom in the 25th International Servantino Festival – Mexico.
  • Fourth Golden Safah Prize for the Gulf Cooperative States Council – Kuwait.

1994

  • Represented the Kingdom in the Fifth International Cairo Biennale.
  • Head of the Plastic Arts Committee – Culture & Arts Committee in Jeddah.

1993

  • Prince Faisal Bin Fahd Cultural Contest Cup for the Youth Houses in the Kingdom.

1992

  • Head of the Cultural Committee in the Saudi Arabian Association for the Youth Houses in Jeddah.
  • First Prize of Danah Heritage Contest– Jeddah.
  • Second Prize of SAMAREC Exhibition – Jeddah.
  • Personal Exhibition – Saudi Center Gallery – Jeddah.

1990

  • Participated in the Kingdom’s youth delegation to Seoul – South Korea.
  • 8th 25 February Exhibition – Kuwait.
  • Muscat 2nd Youth Biennale – Sultanate of Oman.
  • First Prize in the General Exhibition for the Kingdom’s Regions.

1998-1999

  • Kingdom’s Exhibitions Yesterday and Today – Washington – Atlanta – Dallas – New York – Los Angeles.

1989

  • Second Prize in the Fourth Exhibition for the Kingdom Ceremonials – Abha.
  • Third Prize in the Twelfth General Exhibition for the Kingdom Possessions – Riyadh.
  • 2nd Prize of the Ideal Member of the Saudi Society For Youth House – Hayel.
  • Arab Ambassadors Exhibition – Germany – Bonn.
  • GCC 1st International Exhibition – Riyadh.
  • Exhibition of the Plastic Artist in the Kingdom – Dammam.

1988

  • Saudi Contemporary Art Exhibition – Kuwait.
  • 3rd Prize in the 11th Exhibition for the Kingdom Possessions – Riyadh.
  • Arab Countries Cultural Contest Prize – Cairo 1988.
  • Joint Exhibition – Roshan Gallery – Jeddah.

1987

  • 3rd Prize in the 10th Exhibition for the Kingdom Possessions – Riyadh.
  • Saudi Contemporary Art Exhibition – Turkey – Istanbul – Ankara.

1985

  • 2nd Prize in the Second Competition – Culture and Arts Association – Jeddah.
  • Represented the Kingdom in the International Forum – International Year for the Youth – Tunisia.

1983

  • Participated in a number of local exhibitions and contests. Led and participated in management of a number of cultural dialogues in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam, Cairo, Sharjah and Muscat.

Writes on a regular basis in the pages of culture and arts in several Arab newspapers. Since the beginning of the nineties he has been intensively reading Arab and International plays. He believes that human awareness is able to build a civilization.

Alaa Siraih

Born Basra, Iraq, 1965.

BA Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad, 1989.

Worked as a theatre designer at the Baghdad National Theatre.

Memberships: Union of Iraqi Artists; Society of Iraqi Plastic Artists; Society of Iraqi Artists. Lives and works in London.

SSE:

2001 Talisman & Symbols, Kufa Gallery, London.
1983 Basryatha, Basra, Iraq.
SGE:

2004 Body, Soul and Seed, London.
2004 New Spring, ANO Atelier, Germany.
2003 Expressions of Hope, AYA Gallery, London.
2003 Before, After, Now: Visions of Iraq, Deluxe Gallery, London.
2002-0 Irakische Kulturtage, Lubeck, Germany.
1999 Youth Artists, ANO Atelier, Germany.
1993 Azal, Brussels.
1992 Al-Hathar International Festival, Baghdad.
1991 Babylon International Festival, Baghdad.
1991-89 Iraqi Landscapes, Art Centre, Baghdad.