List of Iraqi artists
The following is a list of important artists, including visual arts, poets and musicians, who were born in Iraq, active in Iraq or whose body of work is primarily concerned with Iraqi themes or subject matter.
Note: This article uses Arabic naming customs: the name "al" or "ibn" or "ben" are not used for alphabetical indexing. Artists are listed alphabetically by their paternal family name. For example, the Iraqi artist Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi, is listed under "B" for Baghdadi, the paternal family name while the artist Zigi Ben-Haim, is listed under "H" for Haim.
A
- Faraj Abbo, artist, theatre director, designer, author and educator
- Firyal Al-Adhamy hurufiyya artist, calligrapher
- Kajal Ahmad , Kurdish-Iraqi poet
- Najiba Ahmad, poet
- Modhir Ahmed, visual artist
- Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, multi-media artist, photographer, animator, video producer and installation artist
- Ahmed Albahrani, sculptor and painter
- M.J. Alhabeeb, calligrapher and painter
- Ayad Alkadhi, visual artist
- Rheim Alkadhi, multidisciplinary artist
- Farid Allawerdi, Iraqi composer
- Sama Alshaibi, media and installation artist
- Usama Alshaibi, filmmaker and painter
- Jananne Al-Ani, Iraqi-Irish photographer and film-maker
- Latif al-Ani, photographer, known as the 'father of Iraqi photography'
- Zahroun Amara, world renowned Mandaean niello silversmith. People that are known to have owned his silver nielloware include Stanley Maude, Winston Churchill, Bahrain royal family, Egyptian King Farouk, Iraqi royal family including kings Faisal I and Ghazi, and British royal family including the Prince of Wales who became Edward VIII.
- Sinan Antoon, poet
- Layla Al-Attar, artist and painter
- Suad al-Attar, painter
- Halla Ayla, photographer, painter
- Apo Avedissian, filmmaker, painter, photographer, and writer
- Dia Azzawi, painter active in Iraq and London
- Fadhil Al Azzawi, poet
B
- Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi, calligrapher
- Niazi Mawlawi Baghdadi, 19th-century painter, decorator and calligrapher
- Ala Bashir, painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon
- Basil Al Bayati, architect and designer
- Wafaa Bilal, performance artist, author and educator
C
- Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi, Iraqi-American ceramist, calligrapher, painter
- Kamil Chadirji, photographer
- Rifa'at Chadirchi, architect
D
- Issa Hanna Dabish, painter
- Murad al-Daghistani, photographer
- Salim al-Dabbagh, artist and print-maker
- Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri, sculptor and artist
- Hafidh al-Droubi, painter and educator
E
- Enheduanna, 23rd century BCE poet, wrote on Cuneiform tablets
- Ali Eyal, multi-media artist and painter
F
- Lisa Fattah, German-born painter, wife of Ismail Fatah al-Turk, active in Iraq
- Fuzûlî, 15th century poet
- Mun'im Furat, sculptor
H
- Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb, calligrapher
- Mohammed Saeed Al-Habboubi, poet
- Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-British architect
- Asim Abdul Hafid
- Kadhim Hayder , artist, poet, author, stage-set designer, educator
- Zigi Ben-Haim, sculptor and painter
- Mansur Al-Hallaj, 9th century Sufi poet and mystic
- Jamil Hamoudi,, sculptor, painter and author
- Choman Hardi, poet, translator and painter
- Faeq Hassan, painter
- Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, sculptor
J
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, painter, art historian, art critic and author
- Khalid al-Jader, painter, educator, art historian and author
- Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, poet
- Koutaiba Al Janabi, film-maker and photographer
- Amal al-Jubouri, poet
- Jamal Jumá, poet
- Saleh al-Jumai'e, contemporary artist
K
- Nida Kadhim, sculptor
- Hayv Kahraman, painter and sculptor
- Farouk Kaspaules, artist
- Hashim al-Khattat, "Hashim the Calligrapher,", calligrapher, considered as the last of the classical calligraphers
- Rachel Khedoori, Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage
- Toba Khedoori, Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly detailed mixed-media paintings
- Paulus Khofri, composer, lyricist and painter
- Nedim Kufi, multi-disciplinary visual artist and graphic designer
M
- Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin, poet
- Alaa Al-Marjani, photographer from Najaf city, worked with AP and Reuters.
- Mohamed Makiya, modernist architect and patron of the arts
- Hanaa Malallah, painter
- Hassan Massoudy, painter and calligrapher
- Ahmed Matar, poet
- Dunya Mikhail, poet
- Ghassan Muhsen, artist, painter and ambassador
- Ibn Muqla, 10th-century calligrapher
N
- Yuhana Nashmi, Mandaean visual artist and ceramicist based in Australia
- Rafa al-Nasiri, painter, print-maker, educator and author
- Muzaffar Al-Nawab, poet, critic and painter
- Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī, 9th century Iraqi poet
- Farah Nosh, photographer and photo-journalist
O
- Amer al-Obaidi, painter
- Mahmoud Obaidi, painter, conceptual artist, sculptor, film-maker
- Madiha Omar, pioneer of the Hurufiyya movement
- Widad Al-Orfali, artist and musician
P
- Fred Parhad, sculptor
Q
- Qais Al-Sindy, artist and painter
R
- Husain al-Radi, politician, poet, and painter
- Nuha al-Radi, diarist, ceramicist, painter
- Khaled al-Rahal, sculptor and painter
- Nadhim Ramzi, artist and graphic designer
- Abdul Qadir Al Rassam, painter
- Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq, poet
S
- Miran al-Saadi sculptor
- Mahmoud Sabri, painter
- Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, poet, educator and activist
- Ahmed Al Safi, sculptor
- Shakir Hassan Al Said, painter, art historian, art critic, educator and prolific author
- Issam al-Said, painter, print-maker, designer, etcher, architect, philosopher and author
- Muhammad Sa'id al-Sakkar
- Jawad Saleem , sculptor
- Su'ad Salim
- Tamara Salman, 20th century designer
- Lorna Selim, artist and English-born wife of Jawad Saleem
- Naziha Salim, artist and painter
- Mohammed Hajji Selim, painter, father of Suad Salim, Jawad Saleem, Naziha Salim and Nizarre Selim
- Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, poet
- Andy Shallal, artist and activist
- Naseer Shamma, musician and singer
- Muhannad Al-Shawi, poet
- Walid Siti
- Vian Sora, painter
T
- Ali Talib, painter
- Aatqall Taúaa, sculptor and author
- Ismail Fatah Al Turk, painter and sculptor
W
- Yahya Al-Wasiti, 13th century illustrator
Y
- Nazar Yahya, Iraqi-American etcher, sculptor, installation artist and photographer
- Saadi Yousef, poet, author and journalist
- Yaqut al-Musta'simi 13th-century calligrapher
Z
- Khalil al-Zahawi, calligrapher
- Muqbil Al-Zahawi, ceramicist
- Salim Mohammed Saleh Zaki painter
- Haifa Zangana, novelist, author and artist