1944 Artist Faik Hussain was born in Souk Al-Shuyoukh city, one of the cities of Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq. He completed his primary, secondary, intermediate and secondary studies in his hometown and Nasiriyah City.
1961 - 1965 He studied and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad - Department of Painting.
1965 He founded with other artists such as Salim Al-Dabbagh, Saleh Al-Jumaie, Talib Mekki, Nada Kadhum, and Ali Talib "The Group of Innovators" and participated in their first exhibition. He was among lefties activists with liberal thoughts.
1968 - 1972 He studied and graduated with honors from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, Spain.
1970 He worked in the graphic department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, Spain, and held an exhibition in the Ramon Duran Gallery in Madrid. The Museum of Spanish Modern Art acquired four works from him.
1971 He participated in the Spanish Graphic Exhibition in New York.
1972 He won the Spanish City of Lyon Prize for his poetry collection entitled "Heart Scales", which was in Spanish.
He worked in the seventies at the Spanish-Arab Institute in Madrid, and participated in most of its cultural activities, including the magazine Al-Manara - which was supervised by the well-known Arabist professor Pedro Martínez Montávez, which was interested in poetry, literature and Arab culture, where he cooperated with all his intellectual and artistic energies to support these activities, including several volumes on modern Arabic poetry, were published, including a special volume on modern Iraqi poetry, which was published in 1973 and then another volume in 1977. Faik drew on the pages of these issues some high-sensitivity and passionate drawings consistent with the contents of the poems. These pictures are still fresh to this day in the pages of the magazine maintained by the Spanish Institute.
1975 He founded the Graphic Department at the Central University of Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, at their request and taught for a short period and at the same year he participated in the International Graphic Biennale in Florence, Italy.
He was residing in Madrid during the seventies and had his own studio but traveling around a lot around the world, where he participated and held several exhibitions inside and outside Spain and Iraq during his life.
1976 He held his second solo exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad.
In the eighties, he left Spain and headed to South America, settled in several countries for short periods, and then traveled to the United States of America and resided in Michigan. He visited Iraq and held a solo exhibition at Al-Orfali Art Gallery in Al-Mansour - Baghdad. Because of his leftist ideas and his opposition to the regime in Iraq, he was put in prison and subjected to torture, which affected his health.
July 14, 2003 The artist passed away in Michigan, USA, at the age of fifty-nine, after suffering a stroke.
