Sadik Kwaish Alfraji (b. in 1960, Baghdad) is a multimedia artist, working in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video and animation. He studied art, graphic design and philosophy. The pursuit of his art profession began in the 1980s in Baghdad, relying on the expressionistic intensity of the graphic and focusing on the ideas and concepts of the existence.
His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Asia, Europe, United States, in several art venues including museums and art foundations such as: Stedelijk Museum; British Museum; Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha; MoMA PS1; LACMA, LA.; 56th and 57th Venice Biennale; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Algiers (MAMA); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Station Museum, Houston; MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Kunsthal KAdE, NL; Museum Flehite, NL; Museum of Modern Art MAMBA, Buenos Aires; Busan Museum of Art, South Korea; Barjeel Art Foundation, UAE; Whitechapel Gallery, London; McMullen Museum of Art, Boston; QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Red Star Line Museum, Belgium; Institut du monde arabe, Paris; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia; Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Romania; Hollfeld Kunst & Museum, Germany; Naves Matadero–International Living Arts Centre, Madrid; Casa Arabe, Madrid; Lemvig Museum, Denmark; Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, etc.
Alfraji’s works are housed in numerous private and public collections including: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The British Museum, UK; Museum Flehite, NL; MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; LACMA, Los Angeles Country Museum; MATHAF, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar; Barjeel Art Foundation, UAE; Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Romania; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia; Shoman Foundation Amman, Jordan; French cultural center, Amman, Jordan; National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan; The Art Center, Baghdad; The National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad; etc.
He currently lives and works in the Netherlands.
