Safaa Erruas was born in 1976 in Tétouan, Morocco where she lives and works. She initially enrolled for a science qualification at the University Abdelmalek Essaadi but later changed her course to artistic training at Institute National Des Beaux Arts where she graduated in 1998. Her work is…
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will establish the first-ever Center for African Art in the US. It will showcase more than 5,000 African artworks in a state-of-the-art facility. The center will also include a library, research center, educational programs, lectures, workshops, and performances. In 2024, the center will…
The Northern Trust Purchase Prize, sponsored by a Chicago-based financial services company, allowed curators and directors from three US museums to select new artwork from the Expo Chicago fair’s Exposure section for their collections. The Seattle Art Museum chose Phahamong III by South African artist Mohau Modisakeng, the…
Mounir Fatmi was born 1970 in Tangier, Morocco. He is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Paris, France. Growing up, Fatmi lived across from the museum of archaeology in Rabat, Morocco. Here he got to see all the prehistoric and pre-Islamic artefacts including the Muslim artefacts from the middle ages found at the Sala-Chellah site.…
Image courtesy of Women Photograph Women Photograph has announced their project grants for 2023. They have partnered with Nikon USA, MFB and the Leica Grant USA to support women & non-binary photographers. Applications open on April 15, 2023 and will close on May 15, 2023. Women Photograph is…
Visual artists from Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, have had some impact in the state of the arts in Africa and abroad. Below are some of the artists to look out for from Mauritania and the work they have done in Africa and the diaspora. Oumar…
There are galleries in the diaspora invested in the promotion of art from African artists. Through programming, acquisitions, and exhibitions, a growing number of art institutions are addressing historical gaps and erasures in the representation of Africa and its diasporas. Here is a list of galleries and museums…
The World Press Contest began in 1955 as an international competition organized by Dutch photographers to provide a global audience to international artists. Over the years, it has evolved into a platform that directs and guides visual journalists, storytellers, and global audiences to create meaningful stories through various…
Nicène Kossentini is a photographer and filmmaker who was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1976. She studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. During the first edition of the International Digital Media in France, she was interned at the Studio National des Arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy and…
Zakaria Ramhani was born in Tangiers, Morocco in 1983. He currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Ramhani was raised in a Muslim community and in a creative home; his father was a landscape painter who shied away from portraying the human figure for religious concerns. Whenever he was commissioned for a…