Iraqi contemporary artist and painter (born 1967)
Qais Al-Sindy (born 1967) is an Iraqi contemporary artist and painter currently residing in California.
Education and work.
Qais started painting at the age of 14 years. He received B.Sc., from college of Engineering, Baghdad University in 1989. Thereafter, he started to study Art. In 2000, he received BA, Academy of Fine Arts, in Baghdad University in which he got his MFA (Master in Fine Art) in 2004.
Qais left Iraq in 2004 for the reason according to him were the restrictions on his work. He lived temporarily in Jordan, before settling down in USA in 2008.  
His paintings are based on themes of exile and fundamental humanity.
His paintings "(16x20x20)", twenty paintings, all 16 x 20 each, were displayed in The Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds Washington-DC, USA in 2018.
Qais has also produced an 11-minute documentary about the burning of the Iraqi library called “Letters Don’t Burn.”
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