MAHMOUD OBAIDI (B. 1966, BAGHDAD) IS AN IRAQI-CANADIAN ARTIST WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED IN MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES AROUND THE WORLD. AFTER LEAVING IRAQ IN 1991, HE OBTAINED HIS MASTERS OF FINE ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH IN CANADA, & COMPLETED DIPLOMAS IN NEW MEDIA AND FILM FROM TORONTO & LOS ANGELES, RESPECTIVELY. HIS WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED EXTENSIVELY, INCLUDING AT MOMA PS1/ NYC / BRITISH MUSEUM – LONDON / VENICE BIENNALE / QATAR MUSEUMS GALLERY, DOHA / MATHAF: ARAB MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-DOHA / SAATCHI GALLERY – LONDON / THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF BAHRAIN / THE INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE – PARIS / THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF FINE ARTS – AMMAN / STATION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART – TEXAS & THE MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE BAIE-SAINT-PAUL - QUEBEC, AMONG OTHERS. HIS WORK IS PART OF THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT MUSEUMS, FOUNDATIONS, & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.

• 2023 Poetry to Politics, The British Museum, London

• 2023 Writing Pictures, Brunei Gallery London

• 2022 Organs of the outlandish, Saleh barakat gallery beirute

• 2021 Interactions, Istanbul Modern museum.

• 2019 MOMA Ps1 compact home project, New York, USA.

• 2017 British museum group show(compact home)

• 2017 57th venice biennale Grenada pavilion.
  Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions

• 2016 Fragments: An Exhibition by Mahmoud Obaidi,
  Qatar Museums Gallery, Katara, Doha
  Fair Skies, Project Space, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
  Baghdad Manifesto, Saatchi Gallery, London

• 2015 The Imposter, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice

• 2014 The Replacement, Meem Gallery, Dubai and Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait City

• 2013 Contemporary Arab Art: How Do You Sleep at Night?, Meem Gallery, Dubai and Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi
  Fair Skies – 25 Years of Arab Creativity, National Museum of Bahrain, Manama
  The Cubes – Hajj: The Journey Through Art, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
  Dress Code, Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, Abu Dhabi
  Confusionism, Katara Art Centre, Doha

• 2012 Fair Skies – 25 years of Arab Creativity, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

• 2011 200 Gigabytes of My Memory – Art in Iraq Today, Meem Gallery, Dubai, and Beirut Exhibition Centre, Beirut

• 2010 Fair Skies, Agial Art Gallery and Art Dubai, Dubai
  They Welcomed Us with Flowers, Bastakiya Art Fair, Dubai
  My Homeland, Art Sawa Gallery, Dubai
  Beyond the War: Contemporary Iraqi Artists of the Diaspora, LTHM Gallery, New York

• 2009 Turtles – Iraqi Artists in Exile, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
  Modernism and Iraq, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York

• 2006 Golden Leaves Book, Gallery Jouy, Switzerland, and T Cazacrou Foundation, Frankfurt

• 2005 Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton and other locations (travelling exhibition)
  Improvisation: Seven Iraqi Artists, Bissan Gallery, Doha, Al-Riwaq Gallery, Manama, and 4 Walls Gallery, Amman
  Paris–Baghdad: Iraqi Artists, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris

• 2003 Iraqi Art Now: Looking Out, Looking In, De Paul Art Museum, Chicago

• 2002 The Ramona Project, 4 Walls Gallery, Amman

• 1998 The Dome Project, Zavitz Gallery, Toronto
  The Dome Project, Public Art, India

• 1994 Obaidi, Darat Al Funun, Amman

• 1990 Cats’ Factory, Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad