History of art(west and middle east)- contemporary art

1. Rembrandt
Nasrollah
Kasraian
AZIZ ART
January 2018
Hayv
Kahraman
Inspiringiranians
Dr Aziz Anzabi
Competition

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1-Rembrandt
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16-Dr Aziz Anzabi
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4. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
15 July 1606 -- 4 October 1669
was a Dutch draughtsman, painter,
and printmaker. An innovative and
prolific master in three media, he is
generally considered one of the
greatest visual artists in the history
of art and the most important in
Dutch art history. Unlike most
Dutch masters of the 17th century,
Rembrandt's works depict a wide
range of style and subject matter,
from portraits and self-portraits to
landscapes, genre scenes,
allegorical and historical scenes,
biblical and mythological themes
as well as animal studies. His
contributions to art came in a
period of great wealth and
cultural achievement that
historians call the Dutch Golden
Age, when Dutch art although in
many ways antithetical to the
Baroque style that dominated
Europe, was extremely prolific and
innovative, and gave rise to
important new genres. Like many
artists of the Dutch Golden Age,
such as Jan Vermeer of Delft,
Rembrandt was also known as an
avid art collector and dealer.
Rembrandt never went abroad,
but he
was considerably influenced
by the work of the Italian masters
and Netherlandish artists who had
studied in Italy, like Pieter Lastman,
the Utrecht Caravaggists, and
Flemish Baroque Peter Paul
Rubens. Having achieved youthful
success as a portrait painter,
Rembrandt's later years were
marked by personal tragedy and
financial hardships. Yet his etchings
and paintings were popular
throughout his lifetime, his
reputation as an artist remained
high, and for twenty years he
taught many important Dutch
painters.
Rembrandt's portraits of his
contemporaries, self-portraits and
illustrations of scenes from the
Bible are regarded as his greatest
creative triumphs. His self-portraits
form a unique and intimate
biography, in which the artist
surveyed himself without vanity
and with the utmost
sincerity.Rembrandt's foremost
contribution in the history of
printmaking was his transformation
of the etching process from a
relatively new reproductive
technique into a true art form,
along with Jacques Callot. 1

5. His reputation as the greatest
etcher in the history of the medium
was established in his lifetime and
never questioned since. Few of his
paintings left the Dutch Republic
whilst he lived, but his prints were
circulated throughout Europe, and
his wider reputation was initially
based on them alone.
Life
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
was born on 15 July 1606 in
Leiden, in the Dutch Republic,
now the Netherlands. He was the
ninth child born to Harmen
Gerritszoon van Rijn and Neeltgen
Willemsdochter van Zuijtbrouck.
His family was quite well-to-do;
his father was a miller and his
mother was a baker's daughter.
Religion is a central theme in
Rembrandt's paintings and the
religiously fraught period in which
he lived makes his faith a matter of
interest. His mother was Roman
Catholic, and his father
belonged to the Dutch Reformed
Church. While his work reveals
deep Christian faith, there is no
evidence that Rembrandt formally
belonged to any church, although
he had five
of his children christened in Dutch
Reformed churches in Amsterdam:
four in the Oude Kerk and one,
Titus, in the Zuiderkerk
As a boy he attended Latin school.
At the age of 14, he was enrolled at
the University of Leiden, although
according to a contemporary he
had a greater inclination towards
painting; he was soon apprenticed
to a Leiden history painter, Jacob
van Swanenburgh, with whom he
spent three years.After a brief but
important apprenticeship of six
months with the painter Pieter
Lastman in Amsterdam, Rembrandt
stayed a few months with Jacob
Pynas and then started his own
workshop, though Simon van
Leeuwen claimed that Joris van
Schooten taught Rembrandt in
Leiden.Unlike many of his
contemporaries who traveled to
Italy as part of their artistic training,
Rembrandt never left the Dutch
Republic during his lifetime.
He opened a studio in Leiden in
1624 or 1625, which he shared with
friend and colleague Jan Lievens. In
1627, Rembrandt began to accept
students, among them Gerrit Dou
in 1628.

6. In 1629, Rembrandt was
discovered by the statesman
Constantijn Huygens (father of the
Dutch mathematician and physicist
Christiaan Huygens), who
procured for Rembrandt
important commissions from the
court of The Hague. As a result of
this connection, Prince
Frederik Hendrik continued to
purchase paintings from
Rembrandt until 1646.
At the end of 1631 Rembrandt
moved to Amsterdam, then rapidly
expanding as the new business
capital of the Netherlands, and
began to practice as a professional
portraitist for the first time, with
great success. He initially stayed
with an art dealer, Hendrick van
Uylenburgh, and in 1634, married
Hendrick's cousin, Saskia van
Uylenburgh.Saskia came from a
good family: her father had been a
lawyer and the burgemeester
(mayor) of Leeuwarden. When
Saskia, as the youngest daughter,
became an orphan, she lived with
an older sister in Het Bildt.
Rembrandt and Saskia were
married in the local church of St.
Annaparochie without the
presence of Rembrandt's
relatives.In the same year,
Rembrandt became a burgess of
Amsterdam and a member of the
local guild of painters. He also
acquired a number of students,
among them Ferdinand Bol and
Govert Flinck.
In 1635, Rembrandt and Saskia
moved into their own house,
renting in fashionable Nieuwe
Doelenstraat. In 1639 they moved
to a prominent newly built house
(now the Rembrandt House
Museum) in the upscale
'Breestraat' (eng.: 'Broadway'),
today known as Jodenbreestraat
(Jodenbreestraat 4,1011 NK
Amsterdam-now) in what was
becoming the Jewish quarter; then
a young upcoming neighborhood.
The mortgage to finance the 13,000
guilder purchase would be a
primary cause for later financial
difficulties.Rembrandt should easily
have been able to pay the house off
with his large income, but it
appears his spending always kept
pace with his income, and he may
have made some unsuccessful
investments.It was there that
Rembrandt frequently sought his
Jewish neighbors to model for his

8. Old Testament scenes.Although
they were by now affluent, the
couple suffered several personal
setbacks; their son Rumbartus
died two months after his birth in
1635 and their daughter Cornelia
died at just three weeks of age in
1638. In 1640, they had a second
daughter, also named Cornelia,
who died after living barely over a
month. Only their fourth child,
Titus, who was born in 1641,
survived into adulthood. Saskia
died in 1642 soon after Titus's
birth, probably from tuberculosis.
Rembrandt's drawings of her on
her sick and death bed are among
his most moving works
During Saskia's illness,
Geertje Dircx was hired as Titus'
caretaker and nurse and also
became Rembrandt's lover. She
would later charge Rembrandt
with breach of promise (a
euphemism for seduction under
[breached] promise to marry) and
was awarded alimony of 200
guilders a year.Rembrandt worked
to have
her committed for twelve years to
an asylum or poorhouse at Gouda,
after learning she had pawned
jewelry he had given her that once
belonged to Saskia.
In the late 1640s Rembrandt began
a relationship with the much
younger Hendrickje Stoffels, who
had initially been his maid. In 1654
they had a daughter, Cornelia,
bringing Hendrickje a summons
from the Reformed Church to
answer the charge "that she had
committed the acts of a whore with
Rembrandt the painter". She
admitted this and was banned from
receiving communion. Rembrandt
was not summoned to appear for
the Church council because he was
not a member of the Reformed
Church.The two were considered
legally wed under common law, but
Rembrandt had not married
Hendrickje. Had he remarried he
would have lost access to a trust set
up for Titus in Saskia's will.
Rembrandt lived beyond his means,
buying art prints and rarities, which
probably caused a court
arrangement to avoid his
bankruptcy in 1656, by selling most
of his paintings and large collection
of antiquities.

9. The sale list survives and gives us
a good insight into Rembrandt's
collections, which, apart from Old
Master paintings and drawings,
included busts of the Roman
Emperors, suits of
Japanese armor among many
objects from Asia, and collections
of natural history and minerals.
But the prices realized in the sales
in 1657 and 1658 were
disappointing.Rembrandt was
forced to sell his house and his
printing-press and move to more
modest accommodation on the
Rozengracht in 1660. The
authorities and his creditors were
generally accommodating to him,
except for the Amsterdam
painters' guild, which introduced
a new rule that no one in
Rembrandt's circumstances could
trade as a painter. To get around
this, Hendrickje and Titus set up a
business as art dealers in 1660,
with Rembrandt as an employee.
Rembrandt Memorial Marker
Westerkerk Amsterdam
In 1661 Rembrandt
was contracted to complete work
for the newly built city hall, but
only after Govert Flinck, the artist
previously commissioned, died
without beginning to paint. The
resulting work, The Conspiracy of
Claudius Civilis, was rejected and
returned to the painter; the
surviving fragment is only a fraction
of the whole work. It was around
this time that Rembrandt took on
his last apprentice, Aert de Gelder.
In 1662 he was still fulfilling major
commissions for portraits and other
works.When Cosimo III de' Medici,
Grand Duke of Tuscany came to
Amsterdam in 1667, he visited
Rembrandt at his house.
Rembrandt outlived both
Hendrickje, who died in 1663, and
Titus, who died in 1668, leaving a
baby daughter. He died within a
year of his son, on 4 October 1669
in Amsterdam, and was buried as a
poor man. in an unknown grave in
the Westerkerk. It was in a
numbered 'kerkgraf' somewhere
under a tombstone in the church.
After twenty years, his remains
were taken away and destroyed, as
was customary with the remains of
poor people at the time.
Works
In a letter to Huygens, Rembrandt
offered the only surviving
explanation of what he sought to
achieve through his art:

10. the greatest and most natural
movement, translated from de
meeste en de natuurlijkste
beweegelijkheid..
The word "beweegelijkheid" is
also argued to mean "emotion"
or "motive". Whether this refers to
objectives, material or otherwise,
is open to interpretation; either
way, critics have drawn particular
attention to the way Rembrandt
seamlessly melded the earthly
and spiritual.
Earlier 20th century connoisseurs
claimed Rembrandt had produced
well over 600 paintings,nearly 400
etchings and 2,000 drawings. More
recent scholarship, from the 1960s
to the present day often
controversially, has winnowed his
oeuvre to nearer 300 paintings.
His prints, traditionally all called
etchings, although many are
produced in whole or part by
engraving and sometimes
drypoint, have a much more
stable total of slightly under 300.
It is likely Rembrandt made many
more drawings in his lifetime than
2,000, but those extant are more
rare than presumed. Two experts
claim that the number of drawings
whose autograph status can be
this is disputed. The list was to be
unveiled at a scholarly meeting in
February 2010.
At one time about ninety paintings
were counted as Rembrandt self-
portraits, but it is now known that
he had his students copy his own
self-portraits as part of their
training. Modern scholarship has
reduced the autograph count to
over forty paintings, as well as a
few drawings and thirty-one
etchings, which include many of
the most remarkable images of the
group.Some show him posing in
quasi-historical fancy dress, or
pulling faces at himself. His oil
paintings trace the progress from
an uncertain young man, through
the dapper and very successful
portrait-painter of the 1630s, to the
troubled but massively powerful
portraits of his old age. Together
they give a remarkably clear picture
of the man, his appearance and his
psychological make-up, as revealed
by his richly weathered face.

11. In his portraits and self-portraits,
he angles the sitter's face in
such a way that the ridge of the
nose nearly always forms the line
of demarcation between brightly
illuminated and shadowy areas.
A Rembrandt face is a face partially
eclipsed; and the nose, bright and
obvious, thrusting into the riddle
of halftones, serves to focus the
viewer's attention upon, and to
dramatize, the division between a
flood of light—an overwhelming
clarity—and a brooding duskiness.
In a number of biblical works,
including The Raising of the
Cross, Joseph Telling His Dreams
and The Stoning of Saint Stephen,
Rembrandt painted himself as a
character in the crowd. Durham
suggests that this was because the
Bible was for Rembrandt
"a kind of diary, an account of
moments in his own life".
Among the more prominent
characteristics of Rembrandt's
work are his use of chiaroscuro,
the theatrical employment of light
and shadow derived from
Caravaggio, or, more likely, from
the Dutch Caravaggisti, but adapted
for very personal means
his contemporaries often displayed,
and a deeply felt compassion for
mankind, irrespective of wealth
and age. His immediate family—his
wife Saskia, his son Titus and his
common-law wife Hendrickje—
often figured prominently in his
paintings, many of which had
mythical, biblical or historical
themes.
Drawings by Rembrandt and his
pupils have been extensively
studied by many artists and
scholars through the centuries. His
original draughtsmanship has been
described as an individualistic art
style that was very similar to East
Asian old masters, most notably
Chinese masters: a "combination of
formal clarity and calligraphic
vitality in the movement of pen or
brush that is closer to Chinese
painting in technique and feeling
than to anything in European art
before the twentieth century"

13. Periods, themes and styles
Throughout his career Rembrandt
took as his primary subjects the
themes of portraiture, landscape
and narrative painting. For the last,
he was especially praised by his
contemporaries, who extolled him
as a masterly interpreter of
biblical stories for his skill in
representing emotions and
attention to detail. Stylistically, his
paintings progressed from the
early "smooth" manner,
characterized by fine technique in
the portrayal of illusionistic form,
to the late "rough" treatment of
richly variegated paint surfaces,
which allowed for an illusionism
of form suggested by the tactile
quality of the paint itself.
A parallel development may be
seen in Rembrandt's skill as a
printmaker. In the etchings of his
maturity, particularly from the late
1640s onward, the freedom and
breadth of his drawings and
paintings found expression in the
print medium as well. The works
encompass a wide range of
subject matter and technique,
sometimes leaving large areas of
white paper to suggest space, at
other times employing complex
It was during Rembrandt's Leiden
period (1625–1631) that Lastman's
influence was most prominent. It is
also likely that at this time Lievens
had a strong impact on his work as
well. Paintings were rather small,
but rich in details. Religious and
allegorical themes were favored, as
were tronies. In 1626 Rembrandt
produced his first etchings, the
wide dissemination of which would
largely account for his international
fame.In 1629 he completed Judas
Repentant, Returning the Pieces of
Silver and The Artist in His Studio,
works that evidence his interest in
the handling of light and variety of
paint application, and constitute
the first major progress in his
development as a painter.
During his early years in
Amsterdam (1632–1636),
Rembrandt began to paint dramatic
biblical and mythological scenes in
high contrast and of large format ,
seeking to emulate the baroque
style of Rubens.With the occasional
help of assistants in Uylenburgh's
workshop, he painted numerous
portrait commissions both small
and large.
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14. By the late 1630s Rembrandt had
produced a few paintings and
many etchings of landscapes.
Often these landscapes
highlighted natural drama,
featuring uprooted trees and
ominous skies . From 1640
his work became less exuberant
and more sober in tone, possibly
reflecting personal tragedy.
Biblical scenes were now derived
more often from the New
Testament than the
Old Testament, as had been the
case before. In 1642 he painted
The Night Watch, the most
substantial of the important group
portrait commissions which he
received in this period, and
through which he sought to find
solutions to compositional and
narrative problems that had been
attempted in previous works.
In the decade following the Night
Watch, Rembrandt's paintings
varied greatly in size, subject, and
style. The previous tendency to
create dramatic effects primarily
by strong contrasts of light and
shadow gave way to the use of
frontal lighting and larger and
more saturated areas of color.
Simultaneously, figures came to
the more expressive use of
brushwork as well, may indicate a
familiarity with Venetian art
(Susanna and the Elders, 1637–47).
At the same time, there was a
marked decrease in painted works
in favor of etchings and drawings of
landscapes. In these graphic works
natural drama eventually made way
for quiet Dutch rural scenes.
In the 1650s, Rembrandt's style
changed again. Colors became
richer and brush strokes more
pronounced. With these changes,
Rembrandt distanced himself from
earlier work and current fashion,
which increasingly inclined toward
fine, detailed works. His use of light
becomes more jagged and harsh,
and shine becomes almost
nonexistent. His singular approach
to paint application may have been
suggested in part by familiarity with
the work of Titian, and could be
seen in the context of the then
current discussion of 'finish' and
surface quality of paintings.
Contemporary accounts sometimes
remark disapprovingly of the
coarseness of Rembrandt's
brushwork, and the artist himself
was said to have dissuaded visitors
from looking too closely at his

15. The tactile manipulation of paint may hearken to medieval procedures,
when mimetic effects of rendering informed a painting's surface. The
end result is a richly varied handling of paint, deeply layered and often
apparently haphazard, which suggests form and space in both an
illusory and highly individual manner.
In later years biblical themes were still depicted often, but emphasis
shifted from dramatic group scenes to intimate portrait-like figures
(James the Apostle, 1661). In his last years, Rembrandt painted his most
deeply reflective self-portraits (from 1652 to 1669 he painted fifteen),
and several moving images of both men and women (The Jewish Bride,
c. 1666)—in love, in life, and before God.

16. Nasrollah Kasraian
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17. Nasrollah Kasraian
Biography
A graduate in law from Tehran
University, Nasrollah Kasraian has
been engaged in photography
since 1966. The Kasraian family is
an influential Iranian family. Many
of the family members are
important artists in Iran and are
also internationally known.
Nasrollah Kasraian is married to
Ziba Arshi, a sociologist who
accompanies him on his
expeditions and collaborates with
him in the publication of his works.
They have three daughters and
live in Tehran.
Photography career
Kasraian travels around Iran
taking pictures of all ethnic
groups and publishes them in
photobooks. The pictures are
supplemented by detailed texts
about the particular subject of each
photobook. The text for the
photbooks is often written by
Kasraian's wife Ziba Arshi. Some of
the photobooks are also made in
collaboration with his brother
Ghodratollah Kasraian.
Some important ethnological works
are based on the work of Nasrollah
Kasraian. One example is The
nomadic people of Iran of Richard
Tapper and Jon Thompson. The
photo book Persepolis was made in
collaboration with Mehrdad Bahar.
Nasrollah Kasraian's work has
appeared in GEO (German and
French), Airone (Italian), Grand
Reportages (French), Animan
(Switzerland) and Altaiir (Spain). His
published collected works in Iran
include "Our Homeland, Iran",
"Turkmans of Iran", "Kurds of Iran" ,
"Balouchestan" , "Qashqais" ,
"Deserts of Iran" , " Bazaars of Iran"
, "Damavand", "Isfahan",
"Persepolis" and ... ; Also "l'Iran
Rural" , "Kurdistan" and "The
nomadic peoples of Iran" published
abroad .

18. Published photo books
Damavand, 1992, ISBN 964-6194-70-2
Isfahan, 1999, ISBN 964-6728-08-1
Persepolis, 5.Auflage: 1998, ISBN 964-416-167-X
Nomads of Iran, 2001, ISBN 964-416-184-X
Our Homeland Iran, 2001, ISBN 964-416-170-X

19. Inspiringiranians
Artist Dr. Aziz Anzabi
((@aziz_anzabi)) is originally from
Iran currently based in London.
.
His practice is mainly focused on
sculpture and painting.
Through his art, Anzabi explores
the concept of myths and rituals
by examining their role and
significance to the human
tradition. Anzabi's
figurative and abstract creations
form an unconscious emotional
connection to a deeper yearning
with the viewer. "My ultimate
goal is to have the viewer
feeling a sense of familiarity with
the
work, a sense of having
experienced this before.”
.Aziz Anzabi's art (aziz-anzabi.com)
describes a fantasy that shelters the
individual in order to lead him
throughout life. With strong
surrealist influences, Anzabi creates
a universe that establishes a sense
of harmony and balance. Anzabi's
work is heavily influenced by
Mahmoud Farschian, evidence of
which can be seen in the lines and
textures of his work - both painting
and sculpture. Anzabi's style and
influences are diverse and whilst
some of his artwork is reminiscent
of Dali, other pieces have elements
of cubism, realism, impressionism
or more interestingly a
juxtaposition of more than one
style therein inventing a whole new
style of his own.
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20. Anzabi's work has been displayed and collected around the world; from
UK, USA, Spain, Italy and Dubai. In addition, his work has appeared on
National Stamps and some of his works can be viewed at the Tehran
Museum. Aziz Anzabi is also an academic, previously a professor at
Tehran University, and has written and produced books on the subjects
of art and mathematics.
.
Bio from : Art Represent dot com .
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#tehranmuseum #dali #iranianpainter
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new year
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inspiringiranians@aziz_anzabi it is my honor. Wishing you a happy new
year and continued success.

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22. Hayv Kahraman
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23. Hayv Kahraman
She was born 1981 is an Iraqi
artist. She primarily paints,
but also sculpts and sketches. Her
works reflect the controversial
issues of gender, specifically
concerning female identity in
relation to her experiences as a
refugee, and all issues that plague
her home country of Iraq. Hayv
currently lives and works in
California, United States.
Life and career
Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1981.
During the Iran War, Hayv spent a
lot of her time in the basement of
her uncle's house. Her relatives
would all huddle around candles
and play card games.While living in
Iraq, she attended the Music and
Ballet School in central Baghdad.
One night, her family packed their
car and hired a smuggler to take
them where it was safe. They had
reached the Stockholm Arlanda,
the airport in Sweden, and this is
when she became a refugee. She
then moved to Sweden at the age
of 11. She enrolled in music and
ballet classes, but decided to
leave due to the teacher's racism.
She began oil painting at the age of
12 and later had several successful
exhibitions in Sweden.She studied
at the Academy of Art and Design
in Florence, Italy. This is where she
met her husband, Anthony
Velasquez. Kahraman's artwork
depict the effects of war, and how
they affect women. Her wide
stylistic references range from
Japanese and Arabic calligraphy art
nouveau, Persian miniatura and
Greek iconography.
Works
War-aq, the Arabic word for playing
cards, is a very personal group of
her works. She combined the idea
of a scattered deck of cards with
the experiences of five million
displaced Iraqis. Migrant 11 is a
series of a contorted dancer that
refers to the deformation of the self
due to migration. This work relates
to her personal experience of
attending the music and ballet
school in central Baghdad. Migrant
3 is a self portrait of herself cutting
off her tongue to represent the loss
of language and communication
through her life experiences.

24. Solo and Group Exhibitions
2016 - Hayv Kahraman, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, October
8, 2016 – January 8, 2017
2016 - No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family
Collection, Miami, Florida
2015 - June: A Painting Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2015 - UNREALISM: Presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch.
2016 - Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2015 - How Iraqi Are You?, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2013 - Let the Guest be the Master, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2013 - Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists, Curated by Kim
Masteller, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas, Aug 31st 2013 - March 30th
2014
2013 - The jameel, Art inspired by Islamic tradition, Curated by Salma
Tuqan, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, May 24th 2013
2012 - Fertile Crescent, Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, Aug
13th, 2012
2012 - Newtopia: the State of Human Rights, Curated by Katerina
Gregos, Kazerne Dossin Museum, Belgium, Dec 1st 2012
2009 - Marionettes, The Third Line, Doha
- Life Drawing, The Third Line, Dubai
- New Works, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, New York
- Solo presentation by Thierry Goldberg Projects at Volta, New York
- The 9th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
- Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, The Saatchi Gallery, London,
UK
2008 - I-Ling Eleen Lin & Hayv Kahraman, Thierry Goldberg Projects,
New York, NY
- Local Produce, The Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, U.S.A

25. 2007 - Life Drawing, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirate
2007 - International Women’s Day, Erbil, Iraq
2007 - Celebrating Women in the Arts, Diyarbakir, Turkey (solo)
2006 - Daemons, Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, U.S.A
2005 - Accademia di Arte e Design, Florence, Italy
2003 - Thoughts on Canvas, Hudiksvall’s Museum, Hudiksvall, Sweden

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