Salam Omar

Salam Omar
An Iraqi artist, born in Anah, western Iraq, in 1960.
In his early years of awakening, the Iraqi wars and the tragedies related to them have profoundly impacted his persona since the early eighties at the Iranian-Iraqi war, leaving an almost permanent carving in his memory & soul.
Salam Omar is a multimedia artist, from printmaking to manual and solar photography to installation. His current project, on immigration and its repercussions, continues to research the position of the killer and the victim that Beirut had previously seen in a recent project (in Counting the Missing, 2014) as an expression of its wars.
Diploma in engraving from the Institute of Fine Arts (Baghdad, 1982). BA in Painting from the College of Fine Arts (Baghdad, 2009). Participant in the UNESCO Project, Newspaper Book, Director and Art Supervisor (2002).
Salam Omar represented the new Iraqi art generation in group exhibitions and topics inside and outside his country. He has solo exhibitions in Baghdad (since 1987), National Museum of Qatar (Doha, 2000), Beirut (since 2001), Abu Dhabi (2002), Damascus (2003), Kuwait (2004), Bahrain (2008). His works include the Qatar Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad (be...

studied primary and middle school in Anah/iraq

studied and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad from 1979-1983

He studied and graduated from the College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad, 2009

The first personal exhibition at the editorial gallery in Baghdad in 1986
The second personal exhibition in Abla Al-Azzawi Gallery in 1992
The third exhibition at the Dialogue Hall, 1996
The fourth exhibition in the State of Qatar, "Doha Museum", in 1998
The fifth exhibition in the State of Qatar, Artists Association in 1999
The sixth exhibition in Beirut, the association hall, in 2000
2002 SD Seventh exhibition in Beirut Hall
The eighth exhibition in Abu Dhabi, Hall of the Cultural Foundation, 2002
The ninth exhibition in Damascus Hall of the French Cultural Center in 2003
The tenth personal exhibition in Baghdad, Akkad Gallery, 2004
The eleventh personal exhibition in Kuwait, Fine Art Gallery, 2004
The 12th exhibition at the Center for Space and Art in 2006
The thirteenth personal exhibition in Bahrain, society hall, 2008
The fourteenth exhibition in Damascus, Mustafa Ali Gallery, 2008
The fifteenth person exhibition in Baghdad, Hall of dialogue 2009
The fifteenth personal exhibition in Beirut, UNESCO Hall, 2010
Sixteenth solo exhibition at Gallarist Hall in Beirut in 2011
The 17th solo exhibition at Ajyal Hall in Beirut in 2014
The 18th solo exhibition at Afkar Hall in Beirut in 2017