Amina Benbouchta is a moroccan artist, working and living in Casablanca, Morocco. She was born December 24, 1963 in Casablanca, from a Moroccan father and a French mother, a duality that marked her infancy and is visible throughout her work. She was born into a family of artists with great links to the State. Her great grandmother was a writer and musician, her grandfather a photographer, her father was engaged with painting and theater before giving up to his passion forphotography and opening an art gallery in Rabat. So Amina had access to the world of creation being very young, meeting relevant personalities and their work from early age and along her childhood.
After graduating in 1986 in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Amina Benbouchta attended various workshops in drawing, lithography and etching, besides being free listener at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1988 to 1990. Amina was exhibiting her works since 1986 but her artistic and cultural concerns led her during the 90’s to run the fashion and culture magazine Les Alignés, and to found with a group of artists and curators the Collectif 212, an organization dedicated to defend the emergent art from the new generation of artists in Morocco.
Since 2005 she resumed her painting and installation works. In recent years her work took a new density in dark colors that give an added depth to her artwork. Some of her pieces are at the root of Bellamine work, others are more spontaneous, showing a search without concesion, as in her installation, suggesting, in its refinement, a world of links and ties that occupy the entire space leaving it air to still breathe.
Since 2009 the artist develops her work with a new medium: photography.
Amina Benbouchta’s work is present in notorious and relevant public art collections such as Collection CDG Fondation Maroc, Collection ONA Fondation Maroc, BCM Bank Maroc Collection, Ministère de la Culture du Maroc Collection, Maroc Telecom Collection, SGMB Bank Collection and the Ministère des Finances Maroc Collection.
