Shwan Kamal was born in the city of Sulaimaniyya in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1967. He is a Kurdish and German artist and sculptor.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Shwan Kamal was born in the city of Sulaimaniyya south of Kurdistan He studied art at the Institute of Fine Arts. He obtained a diploma in sculpture with honors degree and obtained a Bchelor from the Academy of Fine Arts from the University of Baghdad in 1991.[7] studied the art of sculpture at the hands of great artists and professors such as Dara Hama Saeed, Ismail Fattah Al-Turk, Muhammad Ghani Hikmat, Saleh Qargoli and Mortada Al-Haddad After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1991, he returned to the city of Sulaymaniyah and worked as a teacher in the Fine Department of Sculpture until 1994, after the outbreak of the civil war in Kurdistan and the deterioration of the political situation he immigrated to Turkey and then to Greece and settled in Germany since 1995 and obtained German citizenship From 1995 to 2000 he worked as an artist in the foundry (Raymond Keitel) in Düsseldorf, after 2000 until 2015 he worked in the foundry (Rolf Kayser (Kunstgießer)) after a year 2015 Shawan moved to the Kingdom of Sweden, so far he lives and works in Malmö, Sweden.[8] In 2018 he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in plastic arts and sculpture.[9]
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, Shawan Kamal set up many artistic projects and statues in many cities in Kurdistan, Iraq and Europe.[10]
After completing his studies of art in 1991, Shwan had a dream of having projects, artworks and memorials in Kurdistan, and he made some of these works until the outbreak of the civil war and its migration to Europe, from these works and statues: