1932 Artist Eidan Al-Sheikhli was born in the capital, Baghdad, Iraq.
1956 He participated in the Art Exhibition at the Mansour Club in Baghdad while he was student in the IFAB.
1957 He studied and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad.
1961 He traveled to England on a scholarship to study sculpture and casting at the Chelsea College of Arts and then at the Central School of Art and Design-London. For a year and a half, he worked as a technical assistant at the Fiorini and Carney workshops on casting bronze statues.
1964 He participated in the exhibition of The Royal Academy in London and the exhibition of the Education Association through Art under the supervision of the British Ministry of Education.
1965 He did bronze casting at the Central College of Art and Design in London (1896-1989). Then, in the same year, he completed his studies in the art of carving and woodcarving at the Stockwell and Waterloo Center in England. Then, he participated in the Royal Academy Gallery in London and the Education Association through Art under the supervision of the British Ministry of Education and he successfully completed his fellowship.
1966 He participated in the exhibition of Education Association through Art under the supervision of the British Ministry of Education. Then, he participated in the exhibition of the British Artists Association. Then, the Exhibition of Free Directions in Modern Art. Then, the International Amateur Exhibition in London. After his return to Baghdad, he participated in the exhibition of the Iraqi Artists Association in Baghdad and held a solo exhibition in the Aya Gallery in Baghdad.
1967 He participated in the exhibition of the Iraqi Artists Association in Baghdad. He began, with the pioneers of sculpture, with establishing the sculpture branch at the Academy of Fine Arts and was within the teaching staff and among the distinguished sculpture professors who are known for their experiences and creativity.
1968 He held a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad.
1969 He held his solo exhibition in the hall of the Iraqi Red Cross Society, in the Women's Branch, on October 30th, where he presented more than two hundred sculptural art pieces in his modernist style, in which he was inspired by the Iraqi folklore with different materials from cut tin, different types of stones, silver and ornaments.
1971 He held a solo exhibition at the Hall of the National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad.
1973 He participated in the fifteenth exhibition of the Fine Artists Association at the Assembly Hall in Baghdad.
1974 He participated in the cultural festival of Al-Thawra Newspaper in Baghdad and participated in the first party exhibition at the Art Academy Hall in Baghdad.
1976 He participated in the third ‘Art Exhibition on the anniversary of the ruling Party’ at the hall of the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad.
1980 He participated in the seventh ‘Art Exhibition on the anniversary of the ruling Party’ at the hall of the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad.
1981 He held a solo exhibition in Al-Riwaq Hall, from which three works were allocated to be displayed in the Baghdad International Fair (1988 Baghdad Biennial). In the same year, he participated in a group exhibition "Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Rome" with works by Jewad Selim, Ismail Fattah, Khaled Al-Rahhal, Ali Al-Jabri, Mohammad Ghani Hikmat and others.
The artist passed away in the 1990s, and he avoided the media and did not like to appear despite his artistic and academic activities that left an important imprint in the history of Iraqi sculpture.
2016 Some of his works were exhibited in the Iraqi Painters Exhibition of the Iraqi Plastic Artists Association, in cooperation with the Lebanese Artists Association for Painting and Sculpture in Beirut.
