mohamed

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Born: Wast/Iraq
Lives: Amsterdam and London

Education
2007/08 Chelsea College of Art and design, MA interior and Special design, London.UK
2001/02 Jan Van Eyck Academy, Post academic institute, Fine Art Maastricht. NL
1994/99 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Fashion design, Amsterdam. NL
1998 Study exchange, SACI, Drawing and Painting, Florence. IT
1998 Study exchange, Nuova accademia di belle arti, Fashion design, Milan. IT
1997 Study exchange, Escola Massana, Textile print and design, Barcelona. ES
1986/90 Academy of fine Arts, Sculpture, Baghdad. IQ


Solo Exhibitions
2008 TELL BRITAIN an every Thursday performance installation at opposite site of Tate
Britain, London.UK
2006 he left a stream of object in his wake, Goyang art studio, Korea
2004 Ich habe einen Laden, Laden5 gallery space, Bad Ems. DE
2003 Who is afraid of Mohamed? How to make an exhibition for people who won't come?
4 events for 4 Thursdays. Hedah, Maastricht.NL
2002 Still life in Baghdad/ Performance installation, The sun rises at 11:00 AM, JVE,
Maastricht.NL
January the 15th/ Performance installation, JVE, Maastricht. NL
It is stormy, but I don't know why/ installation, Museon Museum, The Hague. NL
2000 I see the mirror I wake up/ Performing installation, Kunst Rai (Art fair), Amsterdam. NL
Yellow mask/ Performing installation, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. NL
And after/ Exhibition, Gallery Attasi, Damascus.Syria
And after/ Exhibition, Agial Art Gallery, Beirut.Lebanon

Group Exhibitions
2007 IN FOCUS, Tate Modern & Contemporary Art Platform, London
Undo, The Dazed Gallery, London
Green Zone/Red Zone, GEMAK Centre for Art and Politics, The Hague. NL
The third culture, Kaapelitehdas-Puristamo, Helsinki. FI
2006 Eastern Exressway Stadtgallerie, Frankfurt. DE
Hot Art, Cold Cash, Cologne Fine Art- Köln Messe. DE
2005 Skulptur-Biennale Munsterland - Kreis Borken 2005. DE
Bremer förderpreis für bildende kunst, städtische galerie,Bremen. DE
AWIA contemporary workshop, Aley. Lebanon
2004 Art- Köln Messe, Köln.DE
Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin.
Voluptuous Bad Ems a site-specific project curetted by Pfelder, Bad Ems. DE
2003 Wasla contemporary workshop, Nuweiba, Egypt.
2001 8th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt.
St'art, contemporary art fair, Strasbourg, France
2000 1st Painting Biennial of Islamic World, Tehran, Iran.
1999 UNISCO Palace, Beirut-Lebanon.
Helga Hofman gallery, Alphen a/d Rijn, NL
Robijn Fashion Award, Amsterdam.

Grants/Awards
2004 Co-curator with Catherine David of the unrealized INBETWEENITY set to take place in Witte de With center for contemporary art, Rotterdam. NL
2002 Prize design for Association of International Residential Arts Center, Amsterdam
2003 First prize/ Competition of covering Jaakontori-square in Kemijärvi, Finland
2000 Jury prize/ Painting Biennial of Islamic World, Tehran. Iran
1999 Robijn Fashion Award Studio 2, Amsterdam. NL
2006 Goyang art studio/National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. Korea
2005 Artist in residency/ Kunstlerhauser Worpswede, Worpswede. DE
Artist in residency / Kunstlerdorf Schopingen, Schopingen.DE
2004 Artist in residency / Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems. DE
2004 Project grant/ The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2001 Research and production grant/ the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.NL