Born in 1963 in Casablanca, Hakim Ghazali lives and works in his native city. Active since the mid-1980s, he has developed a practice centered on painting, grounded in the exploration of color, light, and materiality. He held his first solo exhibition in 1985, before obtaining a baccalaureate in visual arts from Lycée Jaber Ibnou Hayane and later a degree from the École supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens in 1995.
Over the course of his career, the artist has constructed a pictorial language shaped by interior imaginaries and subtle atmospheres, often drawn from dreamlike visions. His recent work focuses on the notion of murality, which questions the pictorial surface through material effects that evoke the traces of time and the transformations of walls exposed to the elements. This approach lends his oeuvre a particular attention to stratification, texture, and the rhythms of surfaces.
Hakim Ghazali’s research has garnered the interest of collectors and institutions, and several of his works have appeared in international auction sales. His practice today reflects an ongoing exploration of the possibilities of painting and materiality.