Hamid Alaoui

Born in Fez in 1937, Hamid Alaoui trained at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca, where he won first prize and a merit scholarship. He continued his studies in Paris at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts and then at the École du Louvre, where he specialized in Islamic arts and museology.

Upon his return to Morocco in 1974, he exhibited at the Nadar Gallery in Casablanca and served as director of the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca for seven years, before being appointed artistic and cultural advisor in Tetouan.In the late 1960s, his painting evolved toward a refined geometric abstraction where lines, architectural planes, and symmetrical compositions interacted through flat areas of color, created first in acrylic and later with an airbrush.His work was integrated into the decoration of hotels designed by the architectural firm Faraoui & De Mazières, alongside artists such as Mohamed Melehi, Farid Belkahia, and Mohamed Chabaa.

In the 1970s, he founded the Bab Rouah Gallery in Rabat, which became a major venue for the promotion and dissemination of contemporary Moroccan art.