Sculpture by Sabah Al-Dhaher

The sculptures of Sabah Al-Dhaher is on display on the first and second floors of Odegaard.  It was originally installed in conjunction with the Unembedded photo exhibit.

Al-Dhaher was born in Nasriyah, Iraq. At the age of fifteen he was accepted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Basra, Iraq, where he lived and received his training in classical art, graduating first in his class in 1989. Al-Dhaher fled Iraq in 1991 due to his involvement in a failed uprising against the regime of Saddam Hussein at the end of the first Gulf war.

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