Amina Benbouchta has developed a body of work that is rooted in the exploration of the limits of painting, transforming concepts and observations into picture, sculpture and installation. The diversity of mediums she explores yields a full analysis of the complex social structure of contemporary life. In 2005, Benbouchta co-founded the Collectif 212, an organization dedicated to defending the emergence of a new phase of contemporary art in Morocco.
Born December 24, 1963 in Casablanca, to a Moroccan father and French mother, Benbouchta’s artistic career officially began in 1986 after graduating from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she went. specializing in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. In 1988 and for the next two years, she audited art courses at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. Her works have been exhibited in institutions around the world, from the Cairo Biennale (1993) to the National Museum of Women and the Arts in Washington DC, United States (1997), with her most recent group and personal exhibitions in Rabat, in Morocco.