Born Baghdad, Iraq, 1944.
Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad, 1966.
Graphic Design, College of Applied Arts, Cairo, 1980.
Teaching Plastic Arts since 1966.
Founding member of The Innovationists, Shadow Group.
Lives and works in the Netherlands.
Awards:
- First Prize, Baghdad International Festival of Plastic Art, Iraq, 1986
- First Prize, Second Sharjah Biennale, UAE, 1995
SSE:
1997 Arts Centre, Bahrain
1994 50 × 70 Gallery, Lebanon
1993 Balka Gallery, Jordan
1988 Al-Riwaq Gallery, Baghdad
1976 National Museum of Modern Art
1964 Mubarakia Gallery, Kuwait
SGE:
2000 Participation, EU-MAN, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Modern Art, Lebanon
1997 Five Iraqi Artists, Green Art Gallery, Dubai
1995 Second Sharja Biennale, UAE
1994 Four Iraqi Artists, Washington
1993 Four Iraqi Artists, Amman
1992 Two Iraqi Artists, Shoman Foundation, Amman
1990 Seven Iraqi Artists, Shoman Foundation, Amman
1989 Between Tigris and Euphrates, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
1988
- First International Biennale, Turkey
- Three Iraqi Artists, Kuwait
1987 International Poster Exhibition, Grand Palace, Paris
1986 First Baghdad International Biennale, Saddam Arts Centre
1984 First International Biennale, Cairo
1978 Contemporary Iraqi Art, London
1976
- Contemporary Iraqi Art, Messina, Italy
- Contemporary Iraqi Art, Modern Art Museum, Paris
- Second Arab Biennale, Morocco
1975
- Seventh Cagne-sur-Mer Internaional Festival, France
- Third Indian Triennial, New Delhi
1974 First Arab Biennale, Baghdad
1972 Arab Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
1972 70 First and Second Al-Wasiti Festival, Baghdad
1964 Graphic Art, Aya Gallery, Baghdad