ندى عسكر / العراق – كركوك

Nada Askar Najaf Al Ahmad

Born in Iraq / Kirkuk 3/1/1960
Graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad in 1985
Member of the Iraqi Artists Syndicate
Member of the Iraqi Fine Artists Association
Member of the Iraqi Plastic Artists Association
I worked on the establishment of the Nada Center for potters in Kirkuk
I worked as an art supervisor in the education of Kirkuk for the school activity
personal gallery
I held fifteen personal exhibitions in most of the governorates of Iraq in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Mosul, Sulaymaniyah, Erbil, Najaf and Al-Basr.
I held a personal exhibition in Turkey in Izmir in 2001
Personal exhibition in Turkey in the capital Ankara in 2015

 Participation with the Iraqi Women Artists  website: 
. Participation in the (Nawar 2) exhibition, which was held in the hall of the Amna Suwarka Museum – Sulaymaniyah, in cooperation between the Iraqi Formations website and Cihan University in Sulaymaniyah, on the date of 4/15/2024.

. Participation in the (Nawar) exhibition, which was held in cooperation between the Iraqi Formations website and Cihan Gallery – Cihan University in Erbil, on 11/2/2024.

. Participation in the Department of Public Arts at the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities 2023.
. Participation in the College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad 2023.
. Participation with the French Institute in Baghdad 2023.
local posts
Babylon International Festival 1997..1999…2000
Al Wusta Festival for the year 2010..2019..2020
Carnival of creative women in Najaf, capital of Islamic culture in 2012
Colorful Whispers exhibition at the French Cultural Center in 1912
Iraqi female artists exhibition at the French Cultural Center in 1913
Participation in all exhibitions of the MESOPOTAMIA Foundation for Cultural Development
A personal ceramic exhibition at the founding conference for the gathering of scientific competencies in 2012
Kirkuk Symposium, which was set up by the Ministry of Culture in Kirkuk in 2012
Baghdad Symposium, Capital of Arab Culture in 2013
All exhibitions of the Ministry of Education from 1991 to 2020
Participation in the Baghdad Forum for International Plastic Art, Baghdad, the capital of Arab culture in 2013
The Six Artists Eve exhibition at Ashtar Hall in the Ministry of Culture, Baghdad, 2014
Participation in the Free Spaces Festival in Gulbenkian Hall in 2019
Participation in the exhibition of Iraqi potters in the Iraqi Plastic Artists Association in Baghdad in 2017 and 2018
Participation in the exhibition of Iraqi plastic artists at the Iraqi Fine Artists Association in 2022
Participation in the Klawish International Cultural Festival 2022
Awards and certificates
Creativity necklace from the Iraqi Artists Syndicate on Women’s Day 2014 and 2015
Creativity necklace from the MESOPOTAMIA Foundation for Cultural Development in 2014
The Golden Academy Award at the Forum of the Fingerprints of Arab Artists in Egypt in 2017
The cultural giving shield for the best plastic artist for the year 2015 by the Ministry of Culture in the “We are a civilization” festival for culture and creativity
Creativity Award for Human Thought at its annual festival in 2018
Creativity Award from the Ministry of Education in the annual festival of the Supervisors’ Exhibition in 2019
First prize in the National Poster Exhibition for the year 2019 in Mosul, and first place in the Arab-Kurdish Unity Exhibition for the year 2020 in Erbil
Posts outside Iraq
China and Japan in 1989
Turkey Izmir city in 2001
Turkey in the capital Ankara in 2015
Tunisia in 1990
Algeria in 2013
Jordan in 2012
Egypt in 2015
Bahrain 1998