Untitled

Artist: Ahmed Alsoudani
Title: Untitled
Year: 2010
Medium: Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 277.7 × 311 cm
Courtesy: The Samawi Collection

Ahmed Alsoudani

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Ahmed Alsoudani came to the U.S. in the late-1990s. He received his B.F.A. in Painting from Maine College Art in 2005 and M.F.A. in Painting from the Yale School of Art in 2008. The artist's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including at Iraq Pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Phoenix Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art, the Frist Art Museum, and the Chrysler Museum of Art. The artist lives and works in New York City.

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The Samawi Collection

Including over 3,000 works by modern and contemporary artists in a variety of mediums, The Samawi Collection traverses several schools and periods of Middle Eastern and international art. The collection spans a range of genres, from politically minded canvases to painting and sculpture that remain at the cutting-edge of global art with technologically driven approaches.