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Dia al-Azzawi
(
Iraqi
, born 1939)
Dia al-Azzawi
Design Object,
2018
Price on Request
Dia al-Azzawi
Desert Rose 3,
2019
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Biography
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Public Collections
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1939
Born in Baghdad, Iraq
Exhibitions
2012
Meem Projects. Part 1: Modern Arab Art. Part 2: Letters in Art, Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
2011
Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Interventions: A Dialogue Between the Modern and the Contemporary, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Art in Iraq Today: Part IV (with Rafa Nasiri and Ali Talib), Meem Gallery, Dubai
Art in Iraq Today: Conclusion, Meem Gallery, Dubai
Elegy To My Trapped City, Abu Dhabi Art, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi (solo)
2010
Dia Azzawi & Parviz Tanavoli, Abu Dhabi Art, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi (solo)
Modernism and Iraq, Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery, New York
Recent Works, Meem Gallery, Dubai (solo)
2009
ADMAF, Sixth Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Festival, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi (solo)
2008
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Dubai
Iraq’s Past Speaks to the Present, British Museum, London
Iraqi Artists in Exile, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
Dafatir. Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
2007
Dafatir. Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, The Centre for Book Arts, New York; Minneapolis Athenaeum, Minneapolis, Minnesota; NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois; The Jaffe Centre for Book Arts, Boca Raton, Florida
Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris (solo)
4 Walls Gallery, Amman (solo)
Kalemmat Gallery, Aleppo (solo)
Dar Al-Funoon Gallery, Kuwait (solo)
Dafatir. Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota; Minnesota Centre for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; University of Texas, El Paso, Texas;
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London
Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia
2006
Portraits of the Bird, Festival of Arts, Bastia, Corsica
2005
Improvisation: Seven Iraqi Artists, Bissan Gallery, Doha, Al-Riwaq Gallery, Manama, and 4 Walls Gallery, Amman (solo)
Dafatir. Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas
Portraits of the Bird: Books and Drawings, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris
Homage to Shafic Abboud, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris
Recent Paintings, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris (solo)
St’Art - Strasbourg Art Fair: Recent Paintings, Galerie Claude Lemand, Strasbourg (solo)
Art Books and Painting, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris
2004
Recent Paintings, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris (solo)
2003
Fondation Colas, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris
Broken Letter, Contemporary Art from Arab Countries, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Palestine and Mahmoud Darwish: Large Polyptychs, Drawings, Prints and Books, Cité du Livre, Aix-en-Provence (solo)
2002
Retrospective Exhibition, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (solo)
Masters of Tondo, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris
The Kinda Foundation Collection, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
2001
Machreq - Maghreb: Paintings and Books, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris
1998
Azzawi & Nasiri, Galerie La Teinturerie, Paris
1997
Five Visual Interpretations, Green Art Gallery, Dubai
1996
Art Centre, Bahrain (solo)
1995
Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris (solo)
Al-Manar Gallery, Casablanca (solo)
Al-Sayed Gallery, Damascus (solo)
Galerie 50x70, Beirut (solo)
1994
Ab’aad Gallery, Amman (solo)
1992
Flandria Gallery, Tangier (solo)
1990
Alif Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Galleri Nakita, Stockholm (solo)
Vanazff Gallery, Gothenburg (solo)
Galerie des Art, Tunis (solo)
Galerie 50x70, Beirut (solo)
1989
Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, Barbican Centre, London
Arab Graphic Art, NCCL, Kuwait
Galerie Claudine Planque, Lausanne (solo)
1988
Olympiad of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Azzawi, Jumaie, Nasiri, Kufa Gallery, London
1987
Third International Biennial Exhibition, Taiwan
1986
Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Contemporary Arab Art, The Mall Gallery, London
Royal Cultural Centre, Amman (solo)
1985
Musée Hubert d’Uckerman, Grenoble
British International Print Biennial, Bradford
1984
First Arab Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Tunis
Alif Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
1983
National Council for Art and Culture Gallery, Kuwait (solo)
1982
Intercontinental Hall, Abu Dhabi (solo)
1981
Basel Art Fair, Galerie Faris, Paris (solo)
FIAC, Galerie Faris, Paris (solo)
Seventh International Grafik Triennial, Frechen
1980
Salon de Mat, Paris
FIAC, Galerie Faris, Paris
Salon d’Automne, Espace Cardin, Paris
Galerie Faris, Paris (solo)
Galerie Centrale, Geneva (solo)
1978
Patrick Seale Gallery, London (solo)
1977
Sultan Gallery, Kuwait (solo)
1976
Gallery Nadhar, Casablanca (solo)
Second Arab Art Biennial, Sao Paulo
1975
Seventh International Painting Festival, Cagnes-sur-Mer
International Summer Academy, Salzburg
Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad (solo)
1973
Gallery Raslan, Tripoli, Lebanon (solo)
1971
Contemporary Arab Art, National Museum, Nicosia
1969
Sultan Gallery, Kuwait (solo)
1967
First International Triennial, New Delhi
1966
Gallery One, Beirut (solo)
1965
Al-Wasiti Gallery, Baghdad (solo)
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Public Collections
The World Bank, Washington, DC
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
Harba Collection, Iraq and Italy
Gulbenkian Collection, Barcelona
Fondation Colas, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris
Development Fund, Kuwait
British Museum, London
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Arab Monetary Fund, Abu Dhabi
Jeddah International Airport
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Una Foundation, Casablanca
The Saudi Bank, London
Museum of Modern Art, Tunis
Museum of Modern Art, Damascus
Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad
Museum of Modern Art, Amman
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The United Bank of Kuwait, London
Kinda Foundation, Saudi Arabia
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