Mahoud Ahmed was born in 1939 in Marshes, Maysan province, Iraq and graduated at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad 1961. Ahmed received a master’s degree and doctorate from Russia Institute and the Institute of Theoretical Aldrest Sorkkov, Moscow. He worked as a professor at the University of Baghdad and Salah Al-Din University Faculty of Fine Arts. Mahoud won several awards and published many books in addition to writing numerous scientific articles of art, art criticism and poetry.