Kenza Goulmamine is a visual painter who graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Algiers and Paris.
She exhibited her paintings in Algiers and her work earned her the second prize for young painting in 1992.
In 1994, marked by the assassination of the school's director Ahmed Asselah and his son Rabah, she left Algeria for France where she joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Influenced by the work of women artists like Franchesca Woodman, she turned to photographic self-portraiture and there began her most personal work around the female body.
She lives between Paris and Abidjan.
Exhibitions
2010 Collective exhibition “whats’up”, Abidjan
2006 “Arts Pluriels” Gallery, Abidjan
1999 Independent Trade Show, Paris
1998 “Pierre Girard” space, Nièvre
1997 Biennale of Gentillean Artists
1997 “Arcima” Gallery, Paris
1997 “Nikki Marquardt” Gallery, Paris
1997 Hanging at the “Château des Vergnes”, Clermont-Ferrand
1996 “L’harmattan” space, Paris
1994 Algerian Cultural Center, Paris
1993 “7 nights with Scheherazade” Instituto Cervantes, Algiers
1992 Second prize for young painting, Algiers
1992 Gallery “M”, Oran
Publications
2002 Illustration of music CD for Double V Production, Paris.
1997 Cover of the catalog of Graduates of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.