Walid Siti
Kurdish artist
Walid Siti (born 1952, Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan) is a Kurdish painter and artist. He is currently based in London, United Kingdom.
Education and early life
He was born into a family of a Sunni Muslim background and had four brothers and a sister. His father was involved in the Kurdish revolutionary movement and often in prison. The father was the breadwinner of his family and as his was often absent, he and his siblings had to work after school. His artistic skills have already raised some awareness in primary school, but weren't met with appraisal by the family at the time. Nevertheless, his father supported his desire to study art. He studied art at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad from which he graduated in 1976. He then travelled to Yugoslavia (present day Slovenia) and where he studied graphic art between 1977 and 1982 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, from where he obtained a MSc. In 1984 he moved on to London due to the difficult situation in Baathist Iraq.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q98760267. VIAF identifies the subject as 169721916. The Library of Congress control number is no2016108343. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952, 1976, 1977 and 1982.
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