ahmed Alsoudani

14 Oct-26 Nov 2011

Overview

Ahmed Alsoudani’s turbulent paintings depict a disfigured tableau of war and atrocity. Drawing on the artists’ own experiences of recent wars in Iraq, the imagery of devastation and violence, often laced with a morbid and barbed humour, evokes a universal experience of conflict and human suffering. Alsoudani draws on many artists for inspiration and imagery from Caravaggio to Carroll Dunham, yet has a clearly developed language of his own. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, Alsoudani currently lives and works in New York. His work has been included in significant museum exhibitions, while a monograph was published by Hatje Cantz in 2009. He has already received substantial press attention, and his work is in many museum and private collections around the world. He will be one of five artists representing Iraq in the upcoming 2011 Venice Biennale