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List of Iraqi artists

Index List of Iraqi artists

The following is a list of important artists who were born in Iraq or active in Iraq or whose body of work is primarily concerned with Iraqi themes or subject matter. [1]

73 relations: Aatqall Taúaa, Abdul Qadir Al Rassam, Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb, Abu Nuwas, Ahmed Al Bahrani (sculptor), Ahmed Al Safi, Al-Shaheed Monument, Ala Bashir, Andy Shallal, Ayad Alkadhi, Baghdad School, Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, Choman Hardi, Dia Azzawi, Faeq Hassan, Farah Nosh, Farouk Kaspaules, Firyal Al-Adhamy, Fred Parhad, Fuzûlî, Ghassan Muhsen, Haifa Zangana, Halla Ayla, Hanaa Malallah, Hassan Massoudy, Hayv Kahraman, Hurufiyya movement, Husain al-Radi, Ibn Muqla, Iraqi art, Islamic architecture, Islamic art, Islamic calligraphy, Ismail Fatah Al Turk, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Jamil Hamoudi, Jananne Al-Ani, Jawad Saleem, Khaled al-Rahal, Khalil al-Zahawi, Koutaiba Al Janabi, Lalla Essaydi, Layla Al-Attar, Lisa Fattah, M. J. Alhabeeb, Madiha Omar, Mahmoud Obaidi, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Modhir Ahmed, Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, ..., Muqbil Al-Zahawi, Nadhim Ramzi, Nazar Yahya, Naziha Salim, Nedim Kufi, Nuha al-Radi, Paulus Khofri, Rachel Khedoori, Rheim Alkadhi, Rifat Chadirji, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Suad al-Attar, The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Toba Khedoori, Usama Alshaibi, Vartan Malakian, Vian Sora, Victory Arch, Wafaa Bilal, Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi, Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti, Zaha Hadid, Zigi Ben-Haim. Expand index (23 more) »

Aatqall Taúaa

Aatqall Taúaa is an artist (sculptor), Iraqi national anchored in the TV program of the film and the people and became very famous in the beginning of the 1970s in Iraq.

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Abdul Qadir Al Rassam

Abdul Qadir Al Rassam, عبد القادر الرسام), 1952 - 1882), was born in Baghdad, Iraq and is one of the first generation of Iraqi artists to paint in the European style and to introduce local audiences to European art. He is noted for his portrait and landscapes painted in the Realist style.

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Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb

Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb is an Iraqi artist and calligrapher living as of 2008 as a refugee in the United States.

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Abu Nuwas

Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī (756–814),a known as Abū NuwāsGarzanti (أبو نواس; ابو نواس, Abū Novās), was a classical Arabic poet.

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Ahmed Al Bahrani (sculptor)

Ahmed Al Bahrani, (أحمد البحراني) (born 1965) is an Iraqi sculptor.

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Ahmed Al Safi

Ahmed Al Safi (احمد الصافي, born 1971) is an Iraqi sculptor and painter.

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Al-Shaheed Monument

Al-Shaheed Monument (نصب الشهيد), also known as the Martyr's Memorial, is a monument designed by Iraqi sculptor, Ismail Fatah Al Turk, and is situatied in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

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Ala Bashir

Ala Bashir (born 1939 Iraq) is an Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon who has exhibited widely and is noted for his portrayls of the human condition.

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Andy Shallal

Anas "Andy" Shallal (Arabic: أنس شلال) (born March 21, 1955 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American artist, activist and entrepreneur.

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Ayad Alkadhi

Ayad Alkadhi, Arabic (اياد القاضي), (born 1971), is a New York Based, Iraqi born artist.

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Baghdad School

The Baghdad School was a relatively short-lived yet influential school of Islamic art developed during the late 12th century in the capital Baghdad of the ruling Abbasid Caliphate.

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Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri

Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri (died September 19, 2007) was an Iraqi sculptor and artist.

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Choman Hardi

Choman Hardi (چۆمان هەردی),(born 1974) is a contemporary Kurdish poet, translator and painter.

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Dia Azzawi

Dia Azzawi (born 1939) is an Iraqi born patiner and sculptor, now living and working in London and one of the pioneers of modern Arab art.

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Faeq Hassan

Faeq Hassan (also known as Faiq Hassan, Fayiq Hassan or Faik Hassan) (1914–1992) was an Iraqi painter noted for founding several 20th century art groups, which collectively were responsible for bridging the gap between Iraqi heritage and traditional art and modern art.

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Farah Nosh

Farah Nosh (فرح نوش) is an Iraqi Canadian photojournalist who was born and grew up in Canada.

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Farouk Kaspaules

Farouk Kaspaules is an Assyrian Canadian artist of Assyrian origin, noted for his engravings and silk-screen photography.

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Firyal Al-Adhamy

Firyal Al-Adhamy (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a Bahrain-based British Iraqi artist.

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Fred Parhad

Fred Parhad (born 1947) is an Iraqi sculptor, most known for his monument of Ashurbanipal which stands in San Francisco in front of the Asian Art Museum.

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Fuzûlî

Fużūlī (Füzuli فضولی, c. 1494 – 1556) was the pen name of the Azerbaijani of the Bayat tribes of Oghuz poet, writer and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman (Məhəmməd Ben Süleyman محمد بن سليمان).

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Ghassan Muhsen

Ghassan Muhsen (Arabic: غسان محسن; born September 28, 1945) is an Iraqi career diplomat, as well as an artist with over 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 joint shows in four continents ranging from New Delhi to New York, from Dubai to Tunis.

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Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana (born 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi novelist, author, artist, and political activist, best known for writing Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London.

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Halla Ayla

Halla Ayla (born in 1957) is an Iraqi American artist and self-taught photographer, currently living in San Francisco, CA.

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Hanaa Malallah

Hanaa Malallah (born 1958) is an Iraqi artist and educator living in London, England.

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Hassan Massoudy

Hassan Massoudy (حسن المسعود الخطاط), born in 1944, is an Iraqi painter and calligrapher, considered by the French writer Michel Tournier as the "greatest living calligrapher", currently lives in Paris.

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Hayv Kahraman

Hayv Kahraman (born 1981) is an Iraqi artist.

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Hurufiyya movement

The Hurufiyya movement (حروفية hurufiyya, adjective form hurufi literal meaning "letters") was an aesthetic movement that emerged in the late twentieth century amongst Arabian and North African artists, who used their understanding of traditional Islamic calligraphy, within the precepts of modern art.

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Husain al-Radi

Husain Ar-Radi (1924, Najaf – 24 February 1963, Baghdad), also known as Hashiim, 'Ammar, and Salam Adil, was an Iraqi communist politician as well as a poet and painter.

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Ibn Muqla

Abu 'Ali Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Muqla al-Shirazi (Baghdad, 885/6 – Baghdad, 20 July 940) was a Persian official of the Abbasid Caliphate who rose to high state posts in the early 10th century.

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Iraqi art

Iraqi art in the Middle Ages was influenced by frequent political changes.

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Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the early history of Islam to the present day.

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Islamic art

Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced from the 7th century onward by people who lived within the territory that was inhabited by or ruled by culturally Islamic populations.

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Islamic calligraphy

Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, based upon the alphabet in the lands sharing a common Islamic cultural heritage.

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Ismail Fatah Al Turk

Ismail Fatah Al-Turk ("Ismail Fatah") (1934 or 1938–2004) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Basra, Iraq, noted for his abstract art, monumental sculpture and public works and as part of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, which fostered a sense of national identity.

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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994) (Arabic: جبرا ابراهيم جبرا) was a Palestinian Syriac-Orthodox author, born in Bethlehem at the time of the British Mandate.

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Jamil Hamoudi

Jamil Hamoudi (1924-2003) was an Iraqi artist who became the Director of the Ministry of Culture's Fine Arts Department.

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Jananne Al-Ani

Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist.

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Jawad Saleem

Jewad Selim (1919–1961) (جواد سليم) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor born in Ankara (Turkey) in 1919.

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Khaled al-Rahal

Khaled Al-Rahal (also given as Khālid al-Raḥḥāl, 1926-1987) (خالد الرحال) was an Iraqi painter and sculptor and one of the leaders of the modern art movement in Iraq.

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Khalil al-Zahawi

Khalil al-Zahawi (خليل الزهاوي; 1946 - 25 May 2007) was one of Iraq's most prominent calligraphers.

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Koutaiba Al Janabi

Koutaiba Al-Janabi is a British-based Iraqi filmmaker, director and photographer.

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Lalla Essaydi

Lalla A. Essaydi (born 1956) is a Moroccan-born photographer known for her staged photographs of Arab women in contemporary art.

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Layla Al-Attar

Layla Al-Attar (ليلى العطار, born in Baghdad, Iraq) on May 7, 1944, was an accomplished Iraqi artist and painter who became the Director of the Iraqi National Art Museum.

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Lisa Fattah

Lisa Fattah (1941 – 1992) was a German-born artist of Swedish descent who lived and worked in Iraq.

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M. J. Alhabeeb

Musaddak Jameel Al-Habeeb (or M. J. Alhabeeb) (born مصدق جميل آل حبيب on in southern Iraq) is an Iraqi American contemporary calligrapher who follows the original traditions in Arabic-Islamic calligraphy.

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Madiha Omar

Madiha Omar (1908 – 2005 in Aleppo) (مديحه عمر) is an Iraqi artist who is known for incorporating calligraphy with abstract art.

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Mahmoud Obaidi

Mahmoud Obaidi (born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1966) is an Iraqi-Canadian artist whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

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Mansur Al-Hallaj

Mansur al-Hallaj (ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج; منصور حلاج) (26 March 922) (Hijri 309 AH) was a Persian mystic, poet and teacher of Sufism.

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Modhir Ahmed

Modhir Ahmed (born 1956) is an Iraqi-Swedish artist.

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Mohammed Ghani Hikmat

Mohammad Ghani Hikmat, (April 20, 1929 – September 12, 2011) (محمد غني حكمت) was an Iraqi sculptor and artist credited with creating some of Baghdad's highest-profile sculptures and monuments.

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Muqbil Al-Zahawi

Muqbil Al-Zahawi (born 1 April 1935) (Arabic, مقبل الزهاوى) is an Iraqi ceramicist.

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Nadhim Ramzi

Nadhim Ramzi (ناظم رمزي; 14 July 1928 – 18 September 2013 from a Kurdish family) was an Iraqi graphic designer, calligrapher, photographer, and painter best known for documenting life in Iraq from the 1950s by photography.

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Nazar Yahya

Nazar Yahya is an Iraqi artist living in Houston, Texas.

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Naziha Salim

Naziha Salim (نزيهة سليم, 1927–15 February 2008) was an Iraqi artist and painter, described by the country's president, Jalal Talabani, as "the first Iraqi woman who anchored the pillars of Iraqi contemporary art".

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Nedim Kufi

Nedim Kufi (also known as Nadem al-Kufi), born 1962 in Baghdad), is an Iraqi-Dutch multi disciplinary visual artist. He is primarily known for conceptual art that explores themes such as war, political conflict, exile, loss, and historical memory. Much of his work contains autobiographical elements.

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Nuha al-Radi

Nuha al-Radi (January 27, 1941, Baghdad – August 30, 2004, Beirut) was an Iraqi diarist, ceramist and painter and noted author of the Baghdad Diaries which vividly recounts the horror of living through the first Gulf War.

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Paulus Khofri

Paulus Khofri (ܦܘܠܘܣ ܟܦܪܝ, پولوس خفری), was an Assyrian composer, lyricist and painter.

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Rachel Khedoori

Rachel Khedoori (born 1964 in Sydney, Australia) is a contemporary artist of Iraqi heritage based in Los Angeles and known primarily for her mixed use of sculpture, film and architecture.

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Rheim Alkadhi

Rheim Alkadhi (Arabic: ريم القاضي) (born 1973) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Beirut.

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Rifat Chadirji

Rifat Chadirji (also known as Rifa'at Al Chaderchi رفعت الجادرجي) was born on December 6, 1926 in Baghdad, is an Iraqi architect, photographer, author and activist.

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Shakir Hassan Al Said

Shakir Hassan Al Said (شاكر حسن ال سعيد) (1925–2004), an Iraqi painter, sculptor and writer, is considered one of Iraq's most innovative and influential artists.

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Suad al-Attar

Suad al-Attar (Arabic,سعاد العطار) (born 1942) is an Iraqi painter whose work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The British Museum and the Gulbenkian Collection.

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The Monument to the Unknown Soldier

The Monument to the Unknown Soldier (Arabic: نصب الجندي المجهول) is a monument in central Baghdad built by Italian architect, Marcello D'Olivo, based on a concept by Iraqi sculptor, Khaled al-Rahal, and constructed between 1979 and 1982.

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Toba Khedoori

Toba Khedoori (born 1964 in Australia) is an artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper.

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Usama Alshaibi

Usama Alshaibi (أسامة الشيبي) (born in Baghdad, Iraq on November 20, 1969) is an Iraqi-American independent filmmaker and visual artist.

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Vartan Malakian

Vartan Malakian (Armenian: Վարդան Մալաքյան, born February 14, 1947) is an artist and painter.

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Vian Sora

Vian Sora (born 1976 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi American artist.

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Victory Arch

The Victory Arch (قوس النصر Qaws an-Naṣr), officially known as the Swords of Qādisīyah، and popularly called the Hands of Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq.

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Wafaa Bilal

Wafaa Bilal (وفاء بلال; born June 10, 1966) is an Iraqi American artist, a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently an associate professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

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Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi

Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi is an American-Iraqi artist.

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Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti

Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti (يحيى بن محمود الواسطي) was a 13th-century Iraqi-Arab painter and calligrapher, noted for his illustrations of al-Hairi's Maqamat Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani.

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Zaha Hadid

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect.

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Zigi Ben-Haim

Zigi Ben-Haim (born 1945 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an American-Israeli sculptor and painter who lives and works in New York City and Israel.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iraqi_artists

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