Omar Obed Abdulqadir, also known as Ari Baban, was born in 1953 in #Kirkuk#.
He opened his first exhibition in 1972 with Gara-Ayub Sharif in Imam Qasim Hall in Kirkuk. He has had several private exhibitions and was the director of the #Sulaymaniyah# Public Library, and in late March 2008, due to a fire more than 100 of his paintings were burned down in his house, which resulted in the loss of a large part of his art and literature archive.
Ari Baban passed away on #26-12-2020#.[1]