Born in 1963. Lives and works in Casablanca and Paris.

Over several years, Amina Benbouchta has developed a body of work that finds its source in the exploration of the limits of painting, transforming concepts and observations into image, sculptures and installation. The diversity of mediums she explores allows for a full analysis of the complex social structure of contemporary life. 

Amina was born in Casablanca (Morocco) in 1963, lives and works between Paris and Casablanca. After obtaining her degree in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from McGill University, Montreal, in 1986, she attended various drawing, lithography and printmaking workshops in Paris. She was also a free auditor at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris from 1988 to 1990. During the 1990s, her artistic and cultural concerns led her to direct the fashion and culture magazine. "Les Alignés". In 2005, she co-founded Collectif 212, an organization dedicated to defending the emergence of a new phase of contemporary art in Morocco.

Since 1986, his work has been presented in Morocco and abroad in numerous institutions and contemporary art events among which ; the Cairo Biennale, the French Institute in Casablanca, The National Museum of Women in the Arts - Washington DC USA, at the Kerava Art Museum - Finland, the Alexandria Biennale, the Art Fair Brussels and Marrakech Art Fair, the Docks Art Fair Lyon and in the off program of the Biennale de Lyon. She has exhibited her photographs in Paris, Amsterdam, Dubai and Tokyo. She takes part in the inaugural exhibition of the Contemporary Art Center in Viennes and in the inaugural exhibition of the Mohamed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat. Her work is shown in a solo show at Artissima Art Fair in Turin, she participates in the East Wing Biennial in London as well as in the "Waste Lands" exhibition at the Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art in Palma - Spain. More recently, “Interstices” at the French Institute in Rabat, “Figures / le syndrome de SAUL (am I hunter or hunted?)” At Villa Balthazar - Valence, “Tribe: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World” at Katzen Arts Center at the American University Museum in Washington DC, and currently "Les Marocaines: From the gaze of the other to the gaze of oneself ...", Maison de la Photographie de Lille ....