BOULDER, CO.- The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art presents Halim Al-Karim - Passage to Sumer. Born in Najaf, Iraq Halim Al-Karim is a refugee living in Amsterdam. His work reflects the notion that our existence is not our destiny. Al-Karim's art is not an example of the brutality he has survived but the outward representation of the sublime dreams of his own inner world. His art offers symbolic shelter to recover from the disastrous violence of mankind.

A graduate of Baghdad Academy of Fine Arts, Halim Al-Karim has exhibited his work internationally in the Netherlands, Dubai, Lebanon, Jordan, and France. His work was awarded the jury prize in the International Cairo Biennale in Egypt and is in numerous museum collections around the world.