Rafa Al-Nasiri & May Muzaffar

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:

  • 1986 First Prize, Baghdad International
  • 1977 Jury Prize, Cagne-sur-Mer International Festival, France
  • 1976 Honorary Prize, Fredrikstad Fourth International Graphic Biennial, Norway
  • 1964 Honorary Award, Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria

Jury member at the International Graphics, Berlin, Germany, 1987

Artwork in private and public collections world over. Lives and works in Bahrain

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1995, 1980, 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

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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 Biennial, 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