Mahi Binebine was born in Marrakech in 1959.
Mahi Binebine moved to Paris in 1980 to study mathematics, which he taught for eight years, before devoting himself to writing and painting.
He lived in New York from 1994 to 1999, then returned to Paris, which he left in 2002 to return to Marrakech. It is in the ochre city that he finds the beeswax and natural pigments that give his paintings their unique transparency.
Mahi Binebine’s renown transcends Morocco’s borders, and his works have been acquired by numerous prestigious collections, including the Guggenheim Museum (United States), the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (United States), the Pérez Art Museum Miami, PAMM (United States), the Institut du Monde Arabe (France), Deutsche Bank (Germany), the Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Tunisia), and the Bank Al-Maghrib Museum (Morocco).
Mahi Binebine lives and works in Marrakech.