Fouad Bellamine was born in Fez in 1950.
In 1967, he entered the Casablanca School of Applied Arts. He exhibited his work for the first time in 1972 at the Galerie la Découverte in Rabat. The same year, he joined the teaching profession as an art teacher, before continuing his training with a Diplôme d'Études Appliquées in art history and theory at the Sorbonne University, Paris 1.
During the 1970s, Fouad Bellamine took a keen interest in the debate on identity issues in Morocco and their repercussions on art and culture. This would later lead him to say: “There is no such thing as Moroccan painting, there are only Moroccan painters... “.
His first exhibition in Paris in 1980 was acclaimed by art critics. Fouad Bellamine moved to Paris, where he lived for ten years. During this period, he painted arches and vaults in which the body's gestures are consubstantial with the act of painting and “making space”. In his paintings, the quest for light is the foundation of pictorial space.
In 2020, Fouad Bellamine became the first Moroccan artist to be honored with a retrospective exhibition, Entrée en matière, at the Musée Mohammed VI d'art moderne et contemporain in Rabat, Morocco.
Fouad Bellamine's work has been included in a number of prestigious collections, including the Institut du Monde Arabe (France), the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (France), the Kinda Foundation (Saudi Arabia), the Mathaf Museum of Modern Art (Qatar) and the Sharjah Museum of Art (United Arab Emirates).
Fouad Bellamine lives and works between Paris and Rabat.