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After the debut of the Smoking Man in Ahmad Zakii Anwar's first solo in 1995, he made a return in 2002, a 7-year-itch, in Figure At Sunrise, and the narrative developed into a full-blown episode with his inimitable Urban Realism in Kota Sunyi in 2007 in Jakarta. There is also a sequel to the ‘Kota' saga in his Kota Sepi solo in 2012. Only difference is that the Smoking Man with his plethora of smoke covering his face is placed outdoors, and in some seedy place at an ungodly hour. Zakii's auction record is achieved at Christie's Hong Kong November 2, 2007 auction when his work sold for a premium of HK$427,500. Ahmad Zakii Anwar graduated in Graphic Design at the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977. After a successful stint in Advertising, he decided to be an artist and paints fulltime. A series of memorable solos led to the Disclosure exhibition at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur in 2008, a timely mid-career survey. In 2007, he was invited by the Singapore Tyler Print to do a series of prints. Zakii had solos in the United States (Barbara Green FA in 1999 and Andreshire Gallery in 2011), Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore.