Nazar Yahya

Nazar Yahya
Nazar Yahya in 2018
Born	1963
Education	B.F.A. Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq
Movement	Contemporary art
Website	http://www.nazaryahya.com

Nazar Yahya is an Iraqi artist living in Houston, Texas. Nazar currently works on installations and inkjet on cotton paper projects.

Early life and education

Nazar Yahya, born in Baghdad, Iraq, began exhibiting in Baghdad in the late 1970s. ^[1] He earned his B.F.A. at the Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad in 1986. ^{[1] [2]} From 1986 to 1991, Nazar worked as a map painter in the Army’s rear lines. ^[1] In 2003, during the outbreak of war in Iraq, he took his family to Amman, Jordan. Currently he lives in Houston, Texas.

Career

Nazar Yahya began his work with metal creating etchings and later continued to works on canvas, as well as paper and photography. In his early career, Nazar worked on experiments with dafatir (singular: daftar); a new expression of artist's book, or art object, possessing a distinct postmodern interpretation of the Islamic manuscript production. ^[3] During the 1990s and throughout the invasion, Dafatir as a vehicle of expression intensified in Iraq. ^[3]

Work

Major exhibitions

Nazar’s work has been exhibited in the Middle East: Beirut, Bahrain, Amman, Dubai, Qatar; Europe: London, Norway; Bangladesh; and the United States: Texas.

Select list of notable works

• Card of Illumination

See also

• Iraqi art
• List of Iraqi artists

References

1. "Nazar Yahya". BLOUINARTINFO. Archived from the original on 2022-12-31.
2. Eigner, Saeb; Caussé, Isabelle; Masters, Christopher (2010-01-01). Art of the Middle East: modern and contemporary art of the Arab world and Iran. London; New York: Merrell. ISBN   9781858945002. OCLC   436031514.
3. Amirsadeghi, Hossein; Shabout, Nada M; Mikdadi, Salwa (2009-01-01). New vision: Arab contemporary art in the 21st century. London: TransGlobe Publishing. ISBN   9780956794222. OCLC   819938421.