1940 Artist Ali Al-Najjar was born in capital, Baghdad, Iraq.
1947 - 1957 He completed his primary, middle and secondary school studies in Baghdad schools.
1957 - 1961 He studied and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.
1966 He held a solo exhibition at the Soviet Cultural Center in Baghdad.
1968 He held a solo exhibition at the Iraqi Artists Association in Baghdad.
1971 He participated in the Contemporary Iraqi Art Exhibition in Kuwait.
1972 He participated in the Contemporary Iraqi Art Exhibition at the Hall of the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad.
1973 He participated in the fifteenth exhibition of the Plastic Artists Association in the hall of the Plastic Artists Association and the retrospective exhibition of Iraqi art in the hall of the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad.
1974 He participated in the first Arab Biennale exhibition in Baghdad.
1977 He held a solo exhibition at the Iraqi Artists Association in Baghdad and participated in the Kuwait Biennale.
1978 He held a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad and participated in the fifth anniversary of the ruling party exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad and the Iraqi Modern Art exhibition in Moscow, Russia.
1980 He held a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad and participated in the seventh anniversary of the ruling party exhibition at the Hall of the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad.
1982 He participated in the Modern Iraqi Art exhibition in Germany.
1987 He held a solo exhibition at Al-Riwaq Hall in Baghdad.
1986 He participated in the Baghdad International Festival for Plastic Art at the Saddam Art Center in Baghdad.
1988 He held a solo exhibition at the Al-Rasheed Hall in Baghdad and participated in the Baghdad International Festival of Plastic Art in Baghdad and the Third Cairo Biennale in Egypt.
1989 He participated in the International Biennale in Havana, Cuba.
1990 He held a solo exhibition at Al-Riwaq Hall in Baghdad.
1991 He held a solo exhibition at Saddam Art Center in Baghdad.
1992 He held a solo exhibition entitled "Legends of Innocence" at Saddam Art Center in Baghdad, in which he exhibited 30 oil works and 8 ink sketches.
1993 He held a solo exhibition at Nadhar Gallery in Baghdad.
1995 He held a solo exhibition at Ain Hall and Saddam Arts Center in Baghdad.
1996 He held a solo exhibition at Ibda’a Hall in Baghdad.
1997 He held a solo exhibition at Hiwar Gallery in Baghdad and Baladna Gallery in Amman, Jordan.
1999 He held a solo exhibition in the hall of the Spanish Cultural Center in Amman, and moved to live and work in the city of Malmö, south of Sweden.
2000 He participated in the traveling exhibition of the Southern Sweden Art Association in Sweden.
2001 He held a solo exhibition at Tapper-Popermajer Gallery in Malmö, Sweden, and participated in the St. Petersburg Biennale of Dialogues in Russia.
2003 He held a solo exhibition at Tapper-Popermajer Gallery in Malmö, Sweden, and another in southern Sweden. He participated in an art exhibition in Finland.
2004 He participated in an exhibition at Simone Gallery in London and an exhibition at the History Museum in Sweden.
2005 He held a solo exhibition at Frans Suell Gallery in Malmö.
2006 He held a personal exhibition at the Ur Gallery in Malmö and at the Posk Gallery in London.
2007 He participated in the cultural exhibition in Helsinki and Copenhagen.
2009 He participated in the Biennale of Dialogues in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the exhibition "Artists from Exile" in France.
2011 He participated in the boat project in Morkow, Finland.
2013 He held a solo exhibition at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Stockholm, Sweden, and participated in the documentary art book project.
2014 A book signing ceremony for the artist's biography was held at Dar Al-Anda in Amman.
2016 He participated in the exhibition "Iraqi Painters", in cooperation with the Iraqi Plastic Artists Association and the Lebanese Association of Painting and Sculpture in Beirut.
He lives and works full time art in Malmö, Sweden.
Member of the Southern Sweden Artists Association.
Member of the Association of Immigrant Artists in Finland.
