Kamal Ahmad

Kamal Ahmad (he/him) is an artist, educator, and curator who lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a multidisciplinary visual artist who creates painting, sculpture, video, printmaking and design, and sometimes combines those mediums together. His recent work is more personal and psychological which is based on his past of witnessing wars and psychology of wars as well as religious and cultural identities among different ethnicity groups. The inspiration of his themes comes from his unique background, and it transfers and grows into new artistry forms along the time.

Kamal’s artwork has appeared at a number of galleries and museums such as MassMoCA, Boston Sculptors Gallery, MUSA Gallery, Piano Craft Gallery, etc. He has worked as an educator, art technician, designer, curator, coordinator and installer in many different organizations such as University of Sulaimani, BU, MassArt, MIT, PC Gallery, etc. Kamal has most recently worked as a curator and one of the directors of Piano Craft Gallery in Boston as well.

Kamal was born in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan. He received his first MFA from Boston University in 2016 and his second MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2019. He received his BFA from Sulaymaniyah University in Kurdistan in 2010.

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