Farid Belkahia began his training at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Paris and continued his studies in Prague until he returned to Morocco in 1962 to become director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Casablanca. An active voice in post-colonial debates, he turned the school away from the inherited French model of easel paintings and still lives in order to highlight Moroccan visual culture and architecture.

Farid Belkahia has shown globally, including: National Gallery, Morocco; Batha Museum, Fes; Darat al Funun, Amman; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Nice; Galerie Charpentier, Paris; Paris Biennial; Panafrican Festival, Algiers; First Arab Biennial in Baghdad ; Maison de la Culture, Grenoble; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Johannesberg; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Venice Biennial and Lyon Biennial.