Return to Spring
30 x 54
Not for Sale
Emanuel Asdou was born in Iraq in 1945. He completed his high school studies in Baghdad, Iraq. He began his art career at the age of 15. He first joined a group art exhibition in 1972 at The Assyrian Cultural Club in Baghdad. After migrating to America, he then joined an exhibition at the Assyrian American Association of Chicago, Illinois in 1980. He then ran an individual exhibition in 1989 at the Iraqi Democratic Union of Chicago. Since March 2000, Selections of his work have been featured at Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus and the Assyrian Council of Illinois, in Skokie.
Emanuel most often works in oil and acrylic on canvas, and his surrealist style depicts themes of family, displacement, language, homeland, indigeneity, intimacy, genocide, and identity. To Emanuel, art is an expression of things he can’t form into words. “As humans, art is our collective first language. It began in the caves over fifty thousand years ago. It is a form of communication that gathers us all together.”
Emanuel Asdou (Assyrian-American)
