Shaban Bamerni

Shaban Bamerni was born in 1967, originally from Kurdistan. He began to paint people and nature when he went to primary school. An important inspiration was from a television program called "the little studio". At the age of 16, he decided that art was what he wanted to live, despite interest in music, for example. The painting had a slowness and heavy weight he wanted to work with. Between 1992 and 1997 he studied at an art school in Kurdistan, where he later became a teacher. In 1999, he decided to come to Norway because of the situation in Iraq.

He often uses a knife rather than a brush when painting, but often a combination. I paint both people and nature and buildings and all that is moving, a passion that clearly appears in my expression

Institute of Fine Arts 1992-1997

I have been doing a lot of exhibitions in Norway and Iraq since 1996, both solo shows and with other artists.