Ayyad Alnimer

Ayyad Alnimer is an Egyptian-born painter, born in 1948, who studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. He later worked in Amman, where he founded the Akhenaton Gallery, before moving to the United States in 1989. He now lives and works in California, according to Darat al Funun. He exhibited at Darat al Funun in Amman in 1996 with a solo show of paintings and again in 2002 in a two-person show with Adam Henein. His artist site describes energetic, colourful brushwork and acrylic and monoprint work.