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Simko Ahmed
- Personal Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmed, Simko 1972 births Living people Kurdish male artists Kurdish artists 21st-century Iraqi artists 21st-century Japanese male artists Iraqi emigrants to Japan Iraqi Kurdish people People from Sulaymaniyah Salahaddin University-Erbil alumni University of Tokyo alumni Naturalized citizens of Japan
Japanese
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: 澄湖 アフマド (born 1972) is a Kurdish
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artist.
He moved to Japan in 1996, where he became the first Kurd
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to become a Japanese citizen.Simko Ahmad: From Kurdistan to Japan, A Journey of Art and HumanityKurdistan 24
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retrieved on 17/3/2024. His work as a representation of his life experiences, ranging from contemporary surrealism to abstract forms. Furthermore, Ahmad stressed his dedication to using his work to advocate for human rights, freedom, and equality, reflecting people's struggles across the globe.
Early life and education
Simko Ahmed was born inSulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah or Slemani (; ), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is the capital of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. It is surrounded by the Azmar (Ezmer), Goizha (Goyje) and Qaiwan (Qeywan) Mountains in the northeast, Bara ...
in 1972. After graduating from high school in Erbil
Erbil (, ; , ), also called Hawler (, ), is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The city is the capital of the Erbil Governorate.
Human settlement at Erbil may be dated back to the 5th millennium BC. At the h ...
, he planned to study at the college of fine art
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s, but his teachers advised him to study engineering since it has better outcome and more stable economy. He enrolled in Salahaddin University
Salahaddin University-Erbil (''Zankoy Selaheddîn-hewler'', ''زانکۆی سەلاحەدین-هەولێر'' in Kurdish) is one of the public higher education institutions in the Kurdistan region It is located in Erbil ( Hewler), capital of the ...
and graduated from the college of civil engineering in 1990. He later travelled to Japan
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to attend the college of fine arts at the University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
.
Bibliography
* Colors Of Paradise, 2010 * Spring never dies, 2011 * Baran Art 1, 2012 * Sparrows of Paradise Painting, 2018Kurdistan 24 (Kurdish), published in 2018/10/19.
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Simko Ahmed
- Personal Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmed, Simko 1972 births Living people Kurdish male artists Kurdish artists 21st-century Iraqi artists 21st-century Japanese male artists Iraqi emigrants to Japan Iraqi Kurdish people People from Sulaymaniyah Salahaddin University-Erbil alumni University of Tokyo alumni Naturalized citizens of Japan