- 1939 Born in Mosul, Iraq.
- 1946-1956 Completed his elementary, middle, and high school studies in Iraq.
- 1954-1957 Studied painting and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.
- 1958-1961 Worked as a drawing teacher for a short period in Baghdad.
- 1962-1966 Studied painting and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad.
- 1965 Participated in the International Book Fair, Leipzig, Germany.
- 1966 Participated in the Iraqi Graphic Exhibition, Berlin, Germany.
- 1967 Participated in the Inter-graphics Exhibition, Berlin, and the Arab Art Exhibition that was organized by ‘Carreras Craven A’ in Cairo, Egypt, Beirut, Lebanon, Damascus, Syria, Amman, Jordan, Baghdad, Kuwait, Bahrain, and London, UK, and won the 1st prize.
- He taught painting in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a short period. He was granted a fellowship to study graphic art in Portugal by the Gulbenkian Foundation for two years, as the Iraqi Fine Artists Association nominated his name, and among the artists who were studying with him in Portugal were Rafa Nasiri and Salim Al-Dabbagh.
- 1968 Participated in a painting exhibition and a graphic exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1969 Returned to Iraq and joined the Towards a New Vision Group with Dia al-Azzawi, Rafa Nasiri, Ismail Fattah, Mohammed Muhraddin, and Saleh al-Jumaie. He participated in the 1st Biennial of Liege in Belgium and the Graphic Exhibition in Baghdad and Beirut. The Ministry of Information employed him, and after that, he was appointed to the Arab Horizons Magazine. He participated in and won wall poster competitions, and he designed book and magazine covers during this period.
- 1970 Participated in the Kuwait Graphic Exhibition and the Wall Poster Exhibition, Baghdad.
- 1971 Participated in an exhibition by four Iraqi artists from the Towards a New Vision Group with Rafa Nasiri, Saleh Al-Jumaie, Dia al-Azzawi and Hashem Samarachi entitled ‘Our Joint Exhibition’ at the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, in which he displayed 10 of his works in oil, acrylic and plastic media, and participated in the 1st exhibition of the One Dimension Group at the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, and Contemporary Iraqi Art Exhibition in cooperation with the Iraqi Fine Artists Association, Kuwait.
- 1972 Participated in an exhibition of four Iraqi artists entitled ‘4’ in the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, in which he displayed one painting entitled ‘Movement’. He also participated in the Contemporary Iraqi Art Exhibition at the Iraqi National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad.
- 1974 Participated in the 1st Arab Biennial Exhibition, Baghdad.
- 1981 Traveled to London and settled there with his family.
- 1986 Participated in the Baghdad International Festival for Fine Arts at the Arts Center, Baghdad.
- 1999 Participated in the Summer Festival 99 - Fifty Years of Contemporary Iraqi Graphic Art at Darat Al-Funun, Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan.
- 2012 Participated in the Arab Modern Art Artists Exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery in London and displayed one of his works entitled ‘Composition of Sights’ from 1966.
- 2017 Participated in the exhibition ‘Arab Print - Volume III’ at Meem Gallery, Dubai.
- 2019 Participated in the exhibition ‘Art and Architecture between Lisbon and Baghdad: The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Iraq, 1957-1973’ at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
- 2024 Passed away at the age of eighty-five in London.
- Member of the Iraqi Fine Artists Association.