Born in 1963 in Najaf, Iraq. Currently lives and works in Dubai, UAE and Denver, USA.

Halim Al Karim has held solo exhibitions in Dubai, France, the Netherlands, the US, Jordan and Lebanon. He was nominated for the 2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize and awarded the jury prize in the 8th International Cairo Biennale (2001). He is one of the six artists whose work was featured in the Iraqi Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) – the first Iraqi Pavilion at the Biennale in 36 years. His work is in the collections of major museums including Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Saatchi Collection in London, Darat Al Funun in Amman, L'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

A collective formed in Tokyo in 2005 consisting of Ellie, Ushiro Ryuta, Hayashi Yasutaka, Mizuno Toshinori, Okada Masataka and Inaoka Motomu.

The six-member art collective Chim↑Pom is known for their interventionist artworks with strong social messages on contemporary society. They have garnered both national and international recognition for their activities and have been invited to show at art festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Their expanded activities include producing the feature "Chim↑Pom presents REAL TIMES" for the art monthly Bijutsu Techo (March 2012) and curating the exhibition "Turning Around" (WATARI-UM, Tokyo, 2012). Forthcoming this autumn are a solo exhibition at Parco Museum in Tokyo, a new book, and participation in the 9th Shanghai Biennale.