This is a list of notable artists from, or associated with,

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Abderrahmane Abdelli Abderrahmane Abdelli (born April 2, 1958) is a Berber author, composer, and singer songwriter known for mixing the traditional North African music of his homeland with modern sounds. Biography Abdelli was born in Mechta Behalil, a hamlet in the ...

(born 1958) *

Adel Abdessemed Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an Algerian-French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of artistic media, media, including animation, installation art, installation, performance art, performance, sculpture and video art, video. Som ...

(born 1971)

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* Baya (1931–1998) * Souhila Belbahar (1934–2023) * Nadia Benbouta (born 1970) * Zohra Bensemra (born 1968) * Ahmed Benyahia (born 1943) * Racim Benyahia (born 1987) *

Samta Benyahia Samta Benyahia ( ar, صامته بن يحيى) born in Constantine, Algeria, in 1950, is an Algerian French artist, known for her Arab Berber Andalusian geometrical patterns and rosaceae, called ''fatima''. Benyahia studied at the École Nat ...

(born 1950) *

Zaida Ben-Yusuf Zaida Ben-Yusuf (21 November 1869 – 27 September 1933) was an English-born, New York–based portrait photographer noted for her artistic portraits of wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans during the turn of the 19th–20th century. In 1 ...

(1869–1933) *

Zoulikha Bouabdellah Zoulikha Bouabdellah (born June 20, 1977) is a Russian-born Contemporary art, contemporary artist of Algerian descent. She lives and works in Casablanca and Paris. Biography The daughter of , a film director and author, and Malika Dorbani, fo ...

(born 1977) * Boualem Boukacem (born 1957) *

Mohamed Boumerdassi Mohamed Boumerdassi ( ar, ), (March 18, 1936, in Ouled Boumerdès – December 7, 2010, in Thénia) was considered a Grand Master of Bedouin music, Malhun and Algerian music. Life He was born on March 18, 1936, under the name ''Mohamed ben Mus ...

(1936–2010)

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Omar Fetmouche Omar Fetmouche ( ar, عمر فطموش) (born in Bordj Menaïel on 27 April 1955) is an Algerian artist, actor and playwright. Early life Fetmouche was born in 1955 in the town of Bordj Menaïel in lower Kabylia, and after having done his basi ...

(born 1955)

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Abdelkhader Houamel Abdelkhader Houamel (August 17, 1936 – July 11, 2018) was an Algerian painter. Born in N'Gaous, he is considered to be among the founders of contemporary Algerian painting. Between 1955 and 1960, Abdelkhader Houamel was an active member of th ...

(1936–2018)

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M'hamed Issiakhem M'hamed Issiakhem (17 June 1928 – 1 December 1985) is one of the founders of the modern Algerian painting. Biography M'hamed Issiakhem born on 17 June 1928 in Taboudoucht, a small village near Azeffoun, around 43 kilometers from Tizi Ouz ...

(1928–1985)

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Mohammed Khadda Mohammed Khadda ( ar, محمد الخدة, link=no; 14 March 1930 – 4 May 1991) was an Algerian painter, sculptor, and writer. Khadda has been considered to be among the founders of contemporary Algerian painting and one of the many repres ...

(1930–1991) * Rachid Koraïchi (born 1947)

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Cherif Merzouki Cherif Merzouki or Cherif Merzougui or Merzogui (February 8, 1951 Amentan, Menaa, Aurès - April 4, 1991 Aurès ) was a painter and Illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by p ...

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Rachid Mouffouk Rachid Mouffouk (born 29 January 1955]) is an Algerian sculptor. Early life and background Rachid was born the 29 January 1955 in Batna, Algeria, Batna with his twin brother. Being very small and physically weak, his family believed that he wo ...

(born 1955)

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Houria Niati Houria Niati (born 1948) is an Algerian contemporary artist living in London. Niati specializes in mixed media installations that criticize Western representations and objectification of north African and Middle Eastern women. Her installations ...

(born 1948)

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* Driss Ouadahi (born 1959)

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Mohammed Racim Mohammed Racim ( ar, محمد راسم, 24 June 189630 March 1975) was an Algerian artist who founded the Algerian School for Miniature Painting with his brother, Omar. It still exists to this day.. Biography Racim was born in The Casbah of A ...

(1896–1975) * Omar Racim (1884–1959)

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Mohamed Temam Mohamed Temam or Mohamed Temmam (23 February 1915 Algiers – 15 July 1988 Algiers) was Algerian miniaturist painter and illuminator. His miniature painting of the Kaaba in Mecca was featured on a commemorative stamp issued by Algeria in 1978. ...

(1915–1988)

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Bachir Yellès Bachir Yellès (; 12 September 1921 – 16 August 2022) was an Algerian painter. Life and career Yellès was born in Tlemcen on 12 September 1921.Bloom and Blair, p50 "Bachir Yelles (b. 1921) and Muhammad Bouzid (b. 1929) explored Cubism, Fauvis ...

(1921–2022)

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* Rezki Zerarti (born 1938) *

Hocine Ziani Hocine Ziani (born in Sidi Daoud on 3 May 1953) is an Algerian painter and artist in plastic arts. Early years Ziani was born in 1953 in a Kabyle people, Kabyle family living in the countryside of lower Kabylia near Zawiyet Sidi Amar Cherif and ...

(born 1953) *

Amina Zoubir Amina Zoubir (born 1983) is a contemporary artist, filmmaker and performer from Algiers, Algeria. She is known as a feminist performer through video-actions entitled ''Take your place'', which she directed in 2012 during the 50th anniversary of Al ...

(born 1983)

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Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the ...