Osman Kader Ahmed

Osmankahmed@yahoo.co.uk mobile: (+44) 0 7936827555

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EDUCATION:
Born in 1962 in Sulaymaniya, South Kurdistan.
1980 - 1985 Completed his studies in art at the Institute of Fine Arts in Sulaymaniya. 2000 - 2004 MA in Fine Art from London Camberwell College of Art. Currently working on his PhD research on Anfal at the London College of Art.
Osman Ahmed: DISPLACED is at the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road London SE1 until 7 September. His drawing after Turner's 'Mountain near Dunkeld' is on: www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/drawingfromturner
His work has been shown in France, Italy, Iran, Iraq Germany, Syria and the UK. He is writing a doctorate on artists' responses to crimes against humanity, and the role of drawing indocumenting them.  Amanda Sebestyen curated Osman Ahmed in the group show 'Strains of War' at Greenwich Citizens' Gallery in 1992.
2007- Present: Researching for a PhD in Drawing, at Wimbledon College of Art.
2005- 2007: London University of Art, Camberwell College, MA drawing, part time.
1988 -1990: Art teacher, teaching life drawing/painting to adults in Saqez Kurdistan of Iran, as well as
teaching children 7-15 years old, survivors of Halabja, at a refugee camp near Saqez City, Iran.
1980-1985: Institute of Fine Art, Sulaymani, South Kurdistan, First Degree

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2004 Sulaymani Gallery Kurdistan Iraq
2002 Kufa Gallery London
1992 Kurdistan Hall London
1991 Lille France
1991 Ealing Library London
1985 Sulaemani Gallery (Daboka)
1983 Sulaemani Museum gallery
1980 Institute of Fine Arts.Sulaemani Kurdistan.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2007 -18th of March, Slide show of my works at Remembrance of Anfal and Halabja Seminar in London.
200 7 -15th of March, Seminar on Anfal, the ‘Kurdish Holocaust’. Guest speaker: Mr.Shoresh M Resool, Kurdish writer and academic working closely with the United Nations on Anfal.
2006 Drawing from a Turner Project organized by Professor Stephen Farthing
(http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/drawingfromturner/artists/ahmed.htm)
2005 Saqiz Town Gallery, Kurdistan Iran
2005 Kurdistan Gallery (Sena Kurdistan Iran)
2005 Amna Suraksa Gallery, Sulaemani .
2004 West-eleven Gallery, London.
2003 Portobello Gallery, London.
2002 Fulham Broadway Gallery London
1992 The Willesden Gallery, London
1992 Strains of War (Greenwich Citizen’s Gallery)
1991 Frankfurt
1990 Institute Kurde de Paris, France.
1989 Sheraton Gallery, Damascus, Syria.
1989 Azadi Gallery, Tehran.
1983 Rome, Italy