SAMI AL KARIM

“Art can present an alternative to what people think they realize or to what they expect to know which might otherwise be too painful or too beautiful to experience. I try to capture a single moment when home and exile do not seem opposed to each other but are parts of the single process of our existence. Through my work, I recognize the possibility that there are no true boundaries in our lives.”

- Sami Al Karim

Sami Al Karim attended the Baghdad Academy of Fine Art in Baghdad, Iraq, and Metropolitan State College, and received a BFA with honors from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Al Karim’s photography is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, and the Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum in China, among others. He has exhibited across the world with solo exhibitions in New York, USA; Dubai, UAE; Casablanca, Morocco, Istanbul, Turkey; Bologna, Italy; and Sharjah, UAE among others. Al Karim was invited to participate in the 2009 Florence Biennale, Italy; the Lampemusa, Museo Archeologico Lampedusa, Italy; and the Yinchuan MOCA near Beijing, and was recognized with an award at the Rocky Mountain Biennial at the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art.