Born Tikrit, Iraq, 1940.
BA Graphics, Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, 1959.
Further studies include: Graphics in both Peking, China, 1959-63, and Lisbon, Portugal, 1967-9.
Headed the Graphics Department at Institute of Fine Arts.
Awards:
- First Prize, Baghdad International, 1986
- Honorary Prize, Fredrikstad Fourth International Graphic Biennial, Norway, 1976
- Jury Prize, Cagne-sur-Mer International Festival, France, 1977
- Honorary Award, Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria, 1964
Jury member at the International Graphics, Berlin, Germany, 1987.
Artwork in private and public collections world over. Lives and works in Bahrain.
SSE:
1995, 1880, 1977, 1975, 1970 Gallery Sultan, Kuwait
1984, 1979 Al-Riwaq Gallery, Iraq
1983 Gallery Faris, Paris
1981 National Museum of Modern Art, Amman
1976 Gallery Nadhar, Casablanca, Morocco
1973 Gallery Contact, Lebanon
1964 Czechoslovakian Cultural Centre, Iraq
1963 Painting and Graphics, Hong Kong
SGE:
1984 Sixth Inter-Graphic Biennale, Norway
1983 Second Contemporary /Arab Graphic Art, Gallery Graffiti, London
1982
- 80 Fredrikstad Sixth and Fifth International Graphics Bienniale, Norway
- Krakow Seventh International Graphics Biennale, Poland
1979
- São Paolo Fifth Biennale, Brazil
- Contemporary Iraqi Art, Messina, Italy
1978 Czechoslovakia Eight International Graphics Bienniale
1977 Ninth Cagne-sur-Mer International Festival, France
1976 Rabat Second Arab Bienniale, Morocco
1975 68 First and Third New Delhi Triennial, India
1974 73, 71, National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad
1968 Gravura Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
1967 Iraqi Art, Lisbon
1966 Iraqi Graphics, Berlin
1965 International Graphics, Leipzig, Germany