Jaber Alwan (born 1948 in Babylon, Iraq [1] ) is an Italian artist and painter of Iraqi descent.
Born in Babylon, Iraq, in 1948, Alwan graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad in 1970. In 1972 he arrived in Rome and started painting in the famous Piazza Navona.
In 1975 he gained a diploma degree in Sculpture from the Rome Academy of Fine Art. Ten years later the Municipality of Rome awarded him the prize of Best Artist, the first foreigner to receive this prize.
He has works on permanent display in the Museums of Modern Art of Baghdad, Damascus, Qatar and Kuwait, the Opera House of Culture in Cairo, also at the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, the Dei Diameni Palace, Ferrara, and the Academy Museum, Ravenna; and has private collections in many cities in Europe, Russia, Japan and Chile.
Ala Bashir is an Iraqi painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon who has exhibited widely and is noted for his portrayals of the human condition.
Omar "Malva" Hamdi was a Syrian Kurdish artist. From 1978 to 2015, he lived and worked in Vienna, Austria.
Roland Khoury (1930—1988) was a Syrian painter.
Salwa Zeidan is a Lebanese artist, sculptor, and curator.
Mohammad Rawas or Mohammad El Rawas is a Lebanese painter and printmaker. He studied arts at the Lebanese University, then moved to London and studied Printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art. He currently lives and works in Beirut, where he taught at the Lebanese University and the American University of Beirut.
Hussein Madi is a Lebanese painter, sculptor and printmaker. He studied painting, sculpture and printing in Beirut and Rome. He lived between these two cities between 1973 and 1986. In Rome, he did advanced research on Arabic cultural heritage and on Egypt. He went back to Lebanon in 1986 where taught sculpture and engraving at the institute of Fine Arts of the Lebanese University and, from 1958 to 1962, at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. He has been exhibiting in Europe since 1965. His art has been showcased at the British Museum, the Venice Biennale and Tokyo's Ueno Museum.
Julianos Kattinis is a Greek painter who lives and works in Rome, Italy.
Hilda Hiary is a Jordanian visual artist.