Alya Al-Hariri is an Iraqi contemporary visual artist based in Baghdad. Working primarily in oil painting, her practice explores psychological depth, symbolic storytelling, and the invisible emotional states carried within the human experience.
Her paintings merge realism with surreal atmospheres, where feminine figures, shadows, skeletal forms, roots, and light become metaphors for identity, fear, mortality, resilience, and transformation.
Emerging from Baghdad—a city marked by memory, endurance, and layered history—her work seeks to translate personal and collective emotions into timeless visual narratives.
