- 1941 Artist Ardash Kakafian was born in the province of Mosul, Iraq. He is of Armenian descent.
- 1955 He was a political activist who participated in some demonstrations against the government’s policies, especially those that linked Iraq to foreign allies such as the Baghdad Pact. As a result, he was arrested and imprisoned for a short period.
- He was a talented painter and therefore Jewad Selim and his colleagues in the group accepted him as a fifteen-year-old member of the Baghdad Modern Art Group after an evaluation, and he participated in its exhibitions and he was the youngest member.
- 1954 He participated in the Baghdad Exhibition for Painting and Sculpture, which was held in Al-Mansour Club for the first time. He also participated in the exhibition of the Impressionists Group.
- 1956 He participated in the Baghdad Exhibition for Painting and Sculpture, held at Al-Mansour Club, and displayed one painting in it.
- 1957 He participated in the Iraqi Art Exhibition in Beirut, displaying five paintings.
- 1958 He held his first solo exhibition in Baghdad at the Hall of the Institute of Fine Arts.
- 1961 He left Iraq and traveled to France, when he was twenty years old, to study architecture to satisfy his father's ambition. After that, he entered the National School of Fine Arts in Paris to study art in an academic way.
- He was affected by Al-Wasiti Abbasid School known as the Baghdad School of Painting, but he was also impressed and influenced by Impressionism and the transparency of color and shape through the work of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, Paul Cezanne and Matisse and strove to combine the style of the Baghdad School and Impressionism and its origins.
- He was impressed with the expressive lines and colors. Since his youth, he had been looking forward to the paintings of Monet and Lautrec. He had a special passion and charm for Modigliani's works.
- Ardash worked with different methods and techniques. The artist practiced many artistic mediums, including printing and engraving on wood and lithography, where he performed professional graphic works. He participated with many poets, including the poet Adonis, in the issuance of the book (Ararat) texts by Adonis and the lithography of Ardash. He contributed by painting many French poetry books. His graphic work is an important experiment, in which he paired, with his own concerns, using the symbol and the expressive expressionist style in drawing sharp lines expressing a memory saturated with pain, nostalgia and internal violent conflict.
- 1967 He held his first solo exhibition at the Four Winds Gallery in Paris.
- 1971 He won the Dom World Award and the first prize from the Salon d’Automne in Paris.
- 1975 The artist was mentioned in the French Encyclopedia of Larousse.
- He was appointed as a teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts in Paris.
- April 1980 He held a solo exhibition at Al-Wasiti hall in Baghdad.
- November 30, 1987 to January 07, 1988 He held a solo exhibition at Al-Orfali Gallery in Baghdad, in which 25 lithographs were displayed.
- 2000 The artist passed away in Paris at the age of fifty-nine and asked that his body be cremated after his death and the remains of its ashes to be scattered in the Tigris River.
- He was a member of the Association of Artists.
- He was a member of the Iraqi Visual Society.