About

Mohamed Bouzid (1929, Lakhdaria – 2014, Paris) was an Algerian painter and printmaker, a former schoolteacher who became a scholarship recipient at the Lourmarin Institute, and later a resident of the Casa de Velázquez (1959). After returning to Algeria in 1962, he became a cultural advisor to Malek Haddad and created the seal and coat of arms of the Algerian Republic in 1963. A founding member of UNAP (1964), he participated in the first major exhibitions of Algerian painters in Algiers and Paris alongside Baya, Benanteur, Guermaz, Issiakhem, and Khadda. He settled in France in 1994, where he taught at the Algerian Cultural Center. Winner of the Grand Prix Artistic of Algeria, he was honored with a retrospective in 1999 and then again in 2012 for the 50th anniversary of independence at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Algiers.