Jaber Alwan (born 1948 in Babylon, Iraq ) is an Italian artist and painter of Iraqi descent.
Born in Babylon, Iraq, in 1948, Alwan graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad in 1970. In 1972 he arrived in Rome and started painting in the famous Piazza Navona .
In 1975 he gained a diploma degree in Sculpture from the Rome Academy of Fine Art. Ten years later the Municipality of Rome awarded him the prize of Best Artist, the first foreigner to receive this prize.
He has works on permanent display in the Museums of Modern Art of Baghdad, Damascus, Qatar and Kuwait, the Opera House of Culture in Cairo, also at the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, the Dei Diameni Palace, Ferrara, and the Academy Museum, Ravenna; and has private collections in many cities in Europe, Russia, Japan and Chile.
Alwan lives in Rome, Italy .
1975 “La Giada” Gallery Rome Italy 1976 “The Cross Library” Gallery Rome Italy 1977 “The Hall of Plastic Artists “ Gallery Baghdad Iraq 1978 “Studio Dell Arte” Gallery Rome Italy 1978 “Ipotesi” Gallery Rome Italy 1979 “La Perla” Gallery Florence Italy 1985 “Leonardo da Vinci” Gallery Rome Italy 1986 An Exhibition at his Studio Presented by “Giovanni Carandente” the Manager of Venice Penaly. Rome Italy 1987 “Il Leone” Gallery Rome Italy 1988 “Ornina” Gallery Damask Syria 1988 “Mass Palass” Museum Vienna Austria 1990 “Artemos” Gallery Bastogne Ballgame 1991 “Kufa” Gallery London England 1992 Liehrmann” Gallery Liege Ballgame 1993 Vittorio Caporrella” Foundation Rome Italy 1994 Liehrmann” Gallery Liege Ballgame 1994 “Lombardi” Gallery Rome Italy 1995 “Gallery Atassi” Damascus Syria 1995 Abaad” Gallery Amman Jordan 1995 “Sala” College Ronciglione Italy 1995 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat 1995 “Communale” Gallery Founainebleau France 1996 “Liehrmann” gallery Liege Ballgame 1996 “Private Collection Art” Gallery Bahrain Bahrain 1997 “Museum Loggetta Lombardesca” Ravenna Italy 1997 Magazzino Del Sale” Cervia Italy 1998 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat 1999 “Arte Contemporanea” gallery Foggia Italy 1999 “ Museum Civico Vieste” Vieste Italy 1999 “Atassi” Gallery Damascus Syria 1999 “Leonardo da Vinci” Gallery Catania Italy 2000 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat 2000 “Al-Mada” Gallery Damascus Syria 2001 “XPO” gallery Beirut Lebanon 2001 “M-Art” Gallery Vienna Austria 2001 “Bilad Al Cham” gallery Halab Syria 2002 “Liehrmann” gallery Liege Ballgame 2002 “M-Art” Gallery Vienna Austria 2003 “Al-Mada” Gallery Beirut Lebanon 2004 “Grant” Gallery Cairo Egypt 2004 “Al-Marsa” Gallery Tunis Tunis 2005 “Museum of Art” Kuwait Kuwait 2005 “Liehrmann” Gallery Liege Ballgame 2005 “Al-Riwaq” Gallery Bahrain Bahrain 2005 “Green Art” Gallery Dubai The Arabian Emarat 2006 A solo exhibition at Dar Al Anda, Jordan 1977 “Festival of International Art” Abbruzzo Italy 1977 “From Rome To Tokyo” Exhibition Japan 1981 “Iraqi Art” Rome Italy 1983 “Women in Iraq Art” Regge amilia Italy 1984 “Contemporary Iraqi Art” Brecht center,Milan Italy 1984 A group of Iraqi and Iranian Artists for Peace Rome Italy 1986 An Exhibition for a group of Italian and Foreign Artists Genezzano Italy 1986 “International Gallery” Rome Italy 1986 “Iraqi and Iranian Artists” Roma Italy 1987 “Salone del Quotidiano” Rome Italy 1987 “Anti Racial” Exhibition Rome Italy 1988 “Punto 8” Gallery Florence Italy 1988 “Iraqi Art” National Museum Damascus Syria 1988 “Far away from the first Sky” Florence Italy 1988 “Punto Gallery” Rome Italy 1989 “Mass Palass” Museum Vienna Austria 1989 “Palasso Valentine” Rome Italy 1990 “Biennale di Bastogne” Bastogne Ballgame 1993 “Il Torchio” Gallery Rome Italy 1993 “Mass Palass” Museum Vienna Austria 1995 “La Bottega” gallery Ravenna Italy 1996 “Communale” Museum “The Italian Art” Liege Ballgame 1997 Biennale di Rome “Palasso del Matto to “ Rome Italy 1999 Bienale di Beirut Beirut Lebanon 2003 Biennale di Cairo Cairo Egypt 2004 Biennale di Tunis Tunis Tunis 2005 “Adn- Kronos” Hall Rome Italy 
