Selfati, born in 1967 in the coastal town of Tangiers, is a contemporary Moroccan artist currently living between Paris, Tangiers and New York.
He studied Diploma in Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts in Tetouan, Morocco and then installed his workshop in Paris, where he lived for a year. After Paris, he moved to Madrid, Spain to continue his art studies at the UCM, where he specialized in printmaking.