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b. 1965 -

Ahmed Albahrani, (born 1965) is an Iraqi sculptor. Ahmed Albahrani is one of the most famous Iraqi sculptors, now living in exile.

Ahmed Albahrani was born in 1965, in Tuarej on the Euphrates River, near Babylon. He recalls that as a child, he would withdraw from the games played by other boys, to model clay on the riverbank. He also recalls that on school trips, he was taken to see some of Iraq's ancient monuments and that his reaction to them was different to other boys.

He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and graduated from with a Diploma of Sculpture in 1988, where he was influenced by many professors, notably Abdul Rahim Al Wakil.

He has participated in several exhibitions, Inside and Outside Iraq, Sculpture in Iraq and Yemen as well as his participation in several exhibitions in Qatar, Beirut and the UAE. His sculpture is on public display in several cities.

He taught at the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts between 1992 and 1994.

In mid-career, he decided to move away from the endlesss pursuit of abstraction and began producing figurative works. However, more recently he has returned to abstract sculpture.

In 1994, he left Iraq for political reasons, and lived in Amman, Jordan for a number of years and later resided in Yemen. Since 1999, he has divided his time between Doha in Qatar and Stockholm in Sweden.