Born in Baghdad in 1960, Alfraji currently lives and works in Amersfoort, Holland. He received his Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting and Visual Abstract Art from the Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad in 1987 and a High Diploma in Graphic Design from CHK Constantijn Huygens, the Netherlands, in 2000. Alfraji, is an Iraqi multi-talented artist, photographer, animator, video producer and installation artist known for producing “existential” works with marginalized and fictional characters that speak to human frailty. As a young artist in Baghdad in the 1980s, Alfraji worked as an animator for children's television. This sparked a life-long interest in animation and multi-media productions, which has since become the foundation for much of his work. Sadik Kwaish Alfraji explores what he describes as ‘the problem of existence’ through drawings, paintings, video animations, art books, graphic art, and installations.  Alfraji’s works are housed in private and public collections including Stedelijk Museum, the British Museum, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad; The Art Center, Baghdad; National Gallery of Fine Arts Amman; Shoman Foundation, Amman; Royal Association of Fine Arts, Amman; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia; and Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Romania; Los Angeles Country Museum; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.