Farid Belkahia

Farid Belkahia (فريد بلكاهية; 1934 - 2014) was a Moroccan modernist artist and education reformer. He served as the director of the School of Fine Arts of Casablanca from 1962 to 1974, during the period of the Casablanca school modernist movement. As an artist, he worked primarily in painting, metalwork and leatherwork.

Personal life
He was born to a wealthy family in Marrakesh. His father's circle of friends included the Polish artist Olek Teslar and the French artist Jeannine Guillou. Through Guillou, Farid Belkahia met Nicolas de Staël in 1937.

Belkahia studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris 1954 to 1959. He continued his studies in Prague and returned to Morocco in 1962.

Art
While he was influenced by the aesthetics of Western minimalism and modernism, he was also interested in visual cultures of Moroccan heritage, incorporating this into his work.