Khaled Al Jader was an Iraqi artist born in Baghdad in 1922. After attending the Middle Eastern School in Baghdad, he studied at the College of Law and Art at the Institute of Fine Art concurrently, where he graduated with art and law degrees in 1946. He then obtained a position teaching painting at the Adhamiya High School. In 1954, he traveled to Paris on a scholarship to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1954 and earned a Ph.D. in the History of Islamic Art from the Sorbonne. There, Al Jader developed a significant interest in the Impressionists and joined the Salon de Paris. Al Jader accepted the position of Dean of the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, which he held for several years. He founded the Academy of Fine Arts of Baghdad University in 1962, along with his colleagues Dr. Aziz Shalal Aziz and Dr. As'ad Abdul Razak, and later became its Dean. He spent a few years in Berlin in the 1960s and moved to Saudi Arabia in the 1970s to study at Riyadh University. In the early 1980s, Al Jader then traveled to Morocco in the 1970s to work as a teacher at the Higher Institute of Journalism. He also was chair of the National Committee for Plastic Art with UNESCO.

Al Jader was very active in the modern Iraqi art movement and major art groups such as the Pioneers Group, the Impressionists group, and the Society of Iraqi Plastic Artists and headed the Society of Iraqi artists for a while. Al Jader mastered realistic-expressionism with his landscapes and everyday scenes of life but has been titled "pioneer of abstract art" owing to his free and uninhibited use of brushstrokes. His work throughout the years of experimentation served as an essential advancement in Modern Iraqi art.

He passed away in 1988 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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