Jaber Alwan

Jaber Alwan (born 1948 in Babylon, Iraq) is an Italian artist and painter of Iraqi descent.
Biography
Born in Babylon, Iraq, in 1948, Alwan graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad in 1970. In 1972 he arrived in Rome and started painting in the famous Piazza Navona.
In 1975 he gained a diploma degree in Sculpture from the Rome Academy of Fine Art. Ten years later the Municipality of Rome awarded him the prize of Best Artist, the first foreigner to receive this prize.
He has works on permanent display in the Museums of Modern Art of Baghdad, Damascus, Qatar and Kuwait, the Opera House of Culture in Cairo, also at the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, the Dei Diameni Palace, Ferrara, and the Academy Museum, Ravenna; and has private collections in many cities in Europe, Russia, Japan and Chile.
Alwan lives in Rome, Italy.
Exhibitions
1975 “La Giada” Gallery Rome Italy
1976 “The Cross Library” Gallery Rome Italy
1977 “The Hall of Plastic Artists “ Gallery Baghdad Iraq
1978 “Studio Dell Arte” Gallery Rome Italy
1978 “Ipotesi” Gallery Rome Italy
1979 “La Perla” Gallery Florence Italy
1985 “Leonardo da Vinci” Gallery Rome Italy
1986 An Exhibition at his Studio Presented by “Giovanni Carandente” the Manager of Venice Penaly. Rome Italy
1987 “Il Leone” Gallery Rome Italy
1988 “Ornina” Gallery Damask Syria
1988 “Mass Palass” Museum Vienna Austria
1990 “Artemos” Gallery Bastogne Ballgame
1991 “Kufa” Gallery London England
1992 Liehrmann" Gallery Liege Ballgame
1993 Vittorio Caporrella" Foundation Rome Italy
1994 Liehrmann" Gallery Liege Ballgame
1994 “Lombardi” Gallery Rome Italy
1995 “Gallery Atassi” Damascus Syria
1995 Abaad" Gallery Amman Jordan
1995 “Sala” College Ronciglione Italy
1995 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat
1995 “Communale” Gallery Founainebleau France
1996 “Liehrmann” gallery Liege Ballgame
1996 “Private Collection Art” Gallery Bahrain Bahrain
1997 “Museum Loggetta Lombardesca” Ravenna Italy
1997 Magazzino Del Sale" Cervia Italy
1998 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat
1999 “Arte Contemporanea” gallery Foggia Italy
1999 “ Museum Civico Vieste” Vieste Italy
1999 “Atassi” Gallery Damascus Syria
1999 “Leonardo da Vinci” Gallery Catania Italy
2000 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat
2000 “Al-Mada” Gallery Damascus Syria
2001 “XPO” gallery Beirut Lebanon
2001 “M-Art” Gallery Vienna Austria
2001 “Bilad Al Cham” gallery Halab Syria
2002 “Liehrmann” gallery Liege Ballgame
2002 “M-Art” Gallery Vienna Austria
2003 “Al-Mada” Gallery Beirut Lebanon
2004 “Grant” Gallery Cairo Egypt
2004 “Al-Marsa” Gallery Tunis Tunis
2005 “Museum of Art” Kuwait Kuwait
2005 “Liehrmann” Gallery Liege Ballgame
2005 “Al-Riwaq” Gallery Bahrain Bahrain
2005 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat
2006 A solo exhibition at Dar Al Anda, Jordan
Group exhibitions
1977 “Festival of International Art” Abbruzzo Italy
1977 “From Rome To Tokyo” Exhibition Japan
1981 “Iraqi Art” Rome Italy
1983 “Women in Iraq Art” Regge amilia Italy
1984 “Contemporary Iraqi Art” Brecht center,Milan Italy
1984 A group of Iraqi and Iranian Artists for Peace Rome Italy
1986 An Exhibition for a group of Italian and Foreign Artists Genezzano Italy
1986 “International Gallery” Rome Italy
1986 “Iraqi and Iranian Artists” Roma Italy
1987 “Salone del Quotidiano” Rome Italy
1987 “Anti Racial” Exhibition Rome Italy
1988 “Punto 8” Gallery Florence Italy
1988 “Iraqi Art” National Museum Damascus Syria
1988 “Far away from the first Sky” Florence Italy
1988 “Punto Gallery” Rome Italy
1989 “Mass Palass” Museum Vienna Austria
1989 “Palasso Valentine” Rome Italy
1990 “Biennale di Bastogne” Bastogne Ballgame
1993 “Il Torchio” Gallery Rome Italy
1993 “Mass Palass” Museum Vienna Austria
1995 “La Bottega” gallery Ravenna Italy
1996 “Communale” Museum “The Italian Art” Liege Ballgame
1997 Biennale di Rome “Palasso del Matto to “ Rome Italy
1999 Bienale di Beirut Beirut Lebanon
2003 Biennale di Cairo Cairo Egypt
2004 Biennale di Tunis Tunis Tunis
2005 “Adn- Kronos” Hall Rome Italy
References
External links
Official Site
Living people
1948 births
People from Hillah
Italian people of Iraqi descent
Italian contemporary artists
Iraqi painters
Italian painters