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Born 1962, Baghdad, Iraq
Mohammed Al-Shammarey is a self-taught artist; he works with painting, photography, silk-screen printing, sculpture and book art (dafatir). He has held many solo exhibitions including shows held at his atelier in Baghdad (in 1988, 1991 and 1999); French Cultural Centre, Baghdad and Al-Balqa Open Gallery, Fuhaid, in 1998; Orfali Gallery, Amman, 2002; Dar Al-Anda Gallery, Amman, 2004; Book Fair, 2004 and 2005; 2004 Imagining the Book International Biennial, Alexandria Library, Egypt, 2004Prize of Arab Pioneers from the Arab Pioneers Festival under the patronage of the Arab League. Rain Song, Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and FA Gallery, Kuwait, 2010, and Word, Object, Motion (with Simeen Farhat), Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, in 2010. He has also participated in group exhibitions such as Word into Art, British Museum, London, 2006; Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, travelling exhibition, 2005–2008; Iraqi Artists in Exile, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, 2008; and Modernism and Iraq, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2009. 2013 - an Exhibition of Works by Mohammed Al Shammarey ARTSPACE Dubai.2012 SIMEEN FARHAT • MOHAMMED AL SHAMMAREY Anya Tish Gallery Houston Tx Collective Reaction: FotoFest 2014work is often inspired by literature a poetry, particularly the writings of Rumi, Mahmoud Darwish and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Since 2008, he has lived and worked in Houston, Texas.2020. Theater of operations MoMA ps1 NY.
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