Agim Sulaj (born 6 September 1960, in Vlora, Albania) is an Albanian painter, living in Rimini Italia since 1990 and having Italian citizenship.
After tall school, in 1978 Agim Sulaj entered the Tirana Academy des Baux Artes, and completed his studies at the Fine Arts Academy of Tirana in 1985. As a painter, he started practicing in the political and satirical magazine Hosteni, producing illustrations and caricatures. At the similar time, he was developing the capacity of hyperrealistic painting. He started to make his own works and he became famous by the Large scale oil paint “The Head of Ali Pasha Tepelena, presented to Sultan Mahmut II” (today the Museum of Ali pasha, Ioannina, Greece). Agim Sulaj won the 2010 edition of the “Cartoonsea” Italian national award for humor and satire, presided the board of adjudicators in the ‘CartoonSea 2011’ edition and won second prize in the international competition “Brothers of Italy”. His produce a result has been called “a fine, surreal satirical illustration, metaphor for the state of the character and the failure to protect it”.
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