Sadradeen Ameen1963 Kurdish artist~ Kirkuk south of Kurdistan He lives and works now in USA

 

Biography 

1963, Born in Kirkuk

1986-87, Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq

2001-present, Lives and works in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1989, Kurdish Modern Art, Arbil, Iraq

1989, Al-Wasiti Festival

1995, Exhibit with Hussein Kakayi, Sluis, The Netherlands

1997, Five Artists Show, Brussels, Belgium

1998, Five Artists Show, Disterbrugen, Belgium

1999, Spanish Cultural Center, Amman, Jordan

2000, Show with Hessam Kakay, Ezerman Gallery, The Netherlands

2001, Lititz Woods Art Show, Pennsylvania, USA

2001, International Art Gallery, California, USA

2001, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

2002, Five Artists Show, Elzbieta Middel, Kollum, The Netherlands

2002, Exhibit with Shamsaldin Hama, Milton Hershey School Museum, Pennsylvania, USA

2002, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

2003, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

2004, AYA Gallery, London, England

2005, Araguaney Foundation, Spain

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1999, French Cultural Center, Amman, Jordan

2001, Suk Shuglie Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

2001, Cygnet Studios, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA

2003, Suk Shuglie Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

2005, Liquid Heat Gallery , Lancaster, Pennsylavania, USA

2007, Cygnet Studios, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA

2008, Lancaster Museum of Art , Pennsylvania, USA

 AWARDS

First Prize, Landis Woods Art Show, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Honorable Mention, Lancaster Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

The search for a paradise that has disappeared, 

the reflections on the simple and invisible things of this world, 

the depth of substance of creatures, 

and a penetration into the profundity of the human spirit...

This is my particular world. 

 My paintings are expressions full of modernity;

they are also childish dreams in color, 

expressive of the sweet passing of the beauty, 

the symbols and the myths of old civilization. 

The creatures of my work are mythical poems 

illuminated by the charm of my country which comes from the distant past--

part of it still found in nature, the other part already perished. 

It is pure, personal discovery. 

 I am inspired 

by ancient civilization and religious myths, fables and popular art. 

I look to the art of children and the designs of ancient cave-dwellers. 

I look for new horizons that have no ending. 

My world seems strange to many people, 

but it is real, and has the taste of modernity. 

When I paint, I feel that I live in an ancient world, 

or like a child who has just begun 

to learn to paint with total happiness. 

 Sadradeen Ameen

Source:Site Kurdistan ART