Sami Ajouri
1980 Homs, Syria
Based in Vienna, Austria since 2006

2011 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria; Diploma in Printmaking, master class Prof. Gunter Damisch

2003 Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University, Syria; Lizenz, Sculpture

2008–2010 Study / studio practice in industrial design, Prof. Stephan Fillitz, Vienna, Austria

2001–2005 Studio practice in sculpture with Fayez Nahri, Damascus, Syria

2026
Staatsstipendium für Fotografie, grant, Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport / Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Austria

2025
Parallel Vienna, group exhibition, One State Embassy, Vienna, Austria

2023
Common Ground, group exhibition, One State Embassy and Standing Together Vienna, Kunsttankstelle Vienna, Austria

2021
Nimrods, group exhibition, One State Embassy, Vienna, Austria

2020
Delta Cultura, group exhibition / auction, Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria
Red Cross Auction, charity auction, OPEC, Vienna, Austria

2019
LAM, group exhibition, A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany
Fabrikraum, group exhibition, Fabrikraum Vienna, Austria
Mein Sehen bleibt physisch folgenlos. 2k17 – LAM, group exhibition, Gallery Altana, Dresden, Germany
Auflösung / Dissolution, group exhibition, Educult, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria

2018
Superhumanism 3, group exhibition, Treadwell Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2017
Nick at 80, group exhibition, Treadwell Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Painting Grant, grant, Laboratory of Arts, The Syrian Artist Support Program, Ettijahat – Independent Culture, Beirut, Lebanon

2016
Sowohl als auch, In Memoriam Gunter Damisch, group exhibition, x_posit, Vienna, Austria

2015
The Art of Being a Child, group exhibition of Child of Play, Museum Münze, Hall in Tirol, Austria
Einstellung, group exhibition, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany

2014
Let the Children Play, group exhibition of Child of Play, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
IPA — International Photography Awards, finalist nomination / award, Moving Images category for Child of Play, Los Angeles / New York City / Global

2012
Concrete–Constructive–Minimal, group exhibition, NÖart, Böheimkirchen, Austria

2011
Wem die Stunde schlägt, Damisch und Klasse, group exhibition, Lower Austria Documentation Center for Modern Art / NÖ DOK, St. Pölten, Austria
Thin Red Line, diploma exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Art in Public Space Competition, project presentation, Color Concept and Visual Design for Klinikum Malcherhof Baden, Austria

2010
Julia Menge, group exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Confligere, group exhibition, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Austria
First Prize, award, Art in Architecture Competition, Guidance System and Visual Orientation, Klinikum Malcherhof Baden, Austria

2009
XYZ, solo exhibition, Artmark Gallery, Vienna, Austria
S13, group exhibition, RLB-Atelier, Lienz, Austria

2007
No Landscape, solo exhibition, Weltcafé Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2006
Office Art, group exhibition, C2C Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
EWS — One World Scholarship, scholarship, Afro-Asian Institute, Vienna, Austria, 2006–2010

2005
Anta Huna, group exhibition, Goethe-Institut Gallery, Damascus, Syria

2003
Sculpture in Public Space / Sculpture Symposium, award and exhibition, Messegelände, Damascus, Syria

Collections

2020
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna / KHM Vienna, collection / commissioned portrait of Michael Alram, Director of the Coin Cabinet, Vienna, Austria

2019
OFID / OPEC Fund, collection / commissioned portrait of Suleiman J. Al-Herbish, Vienna, Austria

2018
Nick Treadwell Collection, private collection

2017
Nick Treadwell Collection, private collection

2011
Kupferstichkabinett, collection / acquisition, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

2005
Fatih Al Mudarris Art Centre, collection, Damascus, Syria

EDUCULT Talks: with Sami Ajouri