Explore: Mohammed Sami

(1984 - )

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1984, Mohammed Sami now lives and works in London. Having completed studies in drawing and painting at the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, he worked at the Ministry of Culture, Baghdad, before being granted asylum in Sweden in 2007. Sami graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2015, and earned an MFA at Goldsmiths’ College in 2018. Sami has his first institutional solo show in the UK at Camden Art Centre, London, in 2023 (touring to De La Warr Pavilion). His work has previously featured in numerous group exhibitions, including The London Open 2022 at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); Mixing It Up: Painting Today at Hayward Gallery, London (2021); Stilla Liv / Still Life, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Gotland, Sweden (2020); Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Doha, Qatar (2018–19) and The Sea is the Limit, York Art Gallery, UK (2018); as well as The Culture Night of Norrköping City, Norrköping Art Museum, Sweden (2011). His paintings are held by a number of major collections, including the Arts Council Collection, London; Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Imperial War Museum, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Tate, London.