Born in 1974, Kirkuk Iraq, Shirwan Fatih lives and works in Kirkuk, Iraq. He belongs to a new wave of Sulaymaniyah artists to produce site-specific art, installation, and video. He is also a painter and performance artist. Fatih focuses on environmental issues and political transformation as well as on the education system in Iraq.
His artwork is created in close cooperation with schools and schoolchildren. Fatih’s art has been widely exhibited in Iraqi Kurdistan (e.g. in the group shows: 2005project and Sermedy Le 437.072sq km” Amna Suraka Museum Sulaimani. 2007; “Dado Exhibition”, Sara building, Sulaimani, 2010; “Clamor” Institute of fine art, Sulaimani, 2016; and ” Me and City Hurt Each Oth- er”, The English Hospital, Sulaimani, 2017) as well as in Norway and in Germany, where in 2007 he participated in the art residency program at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. He also took part in the project “Estrangement”, presented at The Showroom, London (2010) and at the Alternativa International Contemporary Visual Art Festival, Gdansk (2011); and in the show “Videozoom; Kurdistan, Iraq. Small things that matter more”, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (2015). and in the show “May Flames Pave The Way for You”, Arsenal Gallery, Poland, 2020.