The following is a list of important artists, including visual arts, poets and musicians, who were born in Iraq, active in Iraq or whose body of work is primarily concerned with Iraqi themes or subject matter.
Note: This article uses Arabic naming customs: the name "al" (which means 'from a certain place') or "ibn" or "ben" (which means 'son of') are not used for alphabetical indexing. Artists are listed alphabetically by their paternal family name. For example, the Iraqi artist Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi, is listed under "B" for Baghdadi, the paternal family name while the artist Zigi Ben-Haim, is listed under "H" for Haim.
A
Faraj Abbo (1921–1984), artist, theatre director, designer, author and educator
Firyal Al-Adhamy (also known as Ferial al-Althami) (b. 1950) hurufiyya artist, calligrapher
Kajal Ahmad (b. 1967), Kurdish-Iraqi poet
Najiba Ahmad (b. 1954), poet
Modhir Ahmed (born 1956), visual artist
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji (b. 1960), multi-media artist, photographer, animator, video producer and installation artist
Ahmed Albahrani (born 1965), sculptor and painter
M.J. Alhabeeb (born 1954), calligrapher and painter
Ayad Alkadhi (born 1971), visual artist
Rheim Alkadhi (b. 1973), multidisciplinary artist
Sama Alshaibi (b. 1973), media and installation artist
Usama Alshaibi (b. 1969), filmmaker and painter
Jananne Al-Ani (b. 1966), Iraqi-Irish photographer and film-maker
Latif al-Ani (b. 1932), photographer, known as the 'father of Iraqi photography'
Zahroun Amara, world renowned Mandaean niello silversmith. People that are known to have owned his silver nielloware include Stanley Maude, Winston Churchill, Bahrain royal family, Egyptian King Farouk, Iraqi royal family including kings Faisal I and Ghazi, and British royal family including the Prince of Wales who became Edward VIII.
Sinan Antoon (b. 1967), poet
Layla Al-Attar (1944–1993), artist and painter
Suad al-Attar (born 1942), painter
Halla Ayla (born 1957), photographer, painter
Apo Avedissian (b. 1990), filmmaker, painter, photographer, and writer
Dia Azzawi (b. 1939), painter active in Iraq and London
Fadhil Al Azzawi (born 1940), poet
B
Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi (1917–1973), calligrapher
Niazi Mawlawi Baghdadi, 19th-century painter, decorator and calligrapher
Ala Bashir (born 1939), painter, sculptor and plastic surgeon
Basil Al Bayati (b. 1946), architect and designer
Wafaa Bilal (b. 1966), performance artist, author and educator
C
Wasma'a Khalid Chorbachi (born 1944), Iraqi-American ceramist, calligrapher, painter
Kamil Chadirji (1897–1968), photographer
Rifa'at Chadirchi (1926–2020), architect
D
Issa Hanna Dabish (1919–2009), painter
Murad al-Daghistani (1917–1984), photographer
Salim al-Dabbagh (b. 1941), artist and print-maker
Bassem Hamad al-Dawiri (died 2007), sculptor and artist
Hafidh al-Droubi (1914–1991), painter and educator
E
Enheduanna, 23rd century BCE poet, wrote on Cuneiform tablets
Ali Eyal (b. 1994), multi-media artist and painter
F
Lisa Fattah (1941–1992), German-born painter, wife of Ismail Fatah al-Turk, active in Iraq
Mansur Al-Hallaj, 9th century Sufi poet and mystic
Jamil Hamoudi, (1924–2003), sculptor, painter and author
Choman Hardi (born 1974), poet, translator and painter
Faeq Hassan (1914–1990), painter
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat (1929–2011), sculptor
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994), painter, art historian, art critic and author
Khalid al-Jader (1922–1988), painter, educator, art historian and author
Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri (1899–1997), poet
Koutaiba Al Janabi (?-?), film-maker and photographer
Amal al-Jubouri (b. 1967), poet
Jamal Jumá, poet
Saleh al-Jumai'e (b. 1939), contemporary artist
K
Nida Kadhim (b. 1937), sculptor
Hayv Kahraman (born 1981), painter and sculptor
Farouk Kaspaules (born ?), artist
Hashim al-Khattat, "Hashim the Calligrapher," (1917–1973), calligrapher, considered as the last of the classical calligraphers
Rachel Khedoori (born 1964), Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage (twin sister of Toba Khedoori)
Toba Khedoori (born 1964), Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly detailed mixed-media paintings (twin sister of Rachel Khedoori)
Paulus Khofri (1923–2000), composer, lyricist and painter
Nedim Kufi (b. 1966), multi-disciplinary visual artist and graphic designer
M
Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin, poet
Alaa Al-Marjani (b. 1967), photographer from Najaf city, worked with AP and Reuters.
Mohamed Makiya (1914–2015), modernist architect and patron of the arts
Hanaa Malallah (b. 1958), painter
Hassan Massoudy (b. 1944), painter and calligrapher
Ahmed Matar (b. 1954), poet
Dunya Mikhail (b. 1965), poet
Muntadher Saleh (b.1999), Polymath
Ghassan Muhsen (born 1945), artist, painter and ambassador
Ibn Muqla (885/6–940), 10th-century calligrapher
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Yuhana Nashmi, Mandaean visual artist and ceramicist based in Australia
Rafa al-Nasiri (1940–2013), painter, print-maker, educator and author
Muzaffar Al-Nawab (b. 1934), poet, critic and painter
Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī, 9th century Iraqi poet
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