Zakaria Ramhani was born in 1983 in Tangier.
Introduced to painting in his father’s studio, he obtained a degree in art education before dedicating himself exclusively to his artistic practice.
His work explores the use of Arabic and Latin script as pictorial gesture. Through the accumulation and multiplication of marks, letters and signs lose their scriptural status to become integral elements of the image, in compositions where writing and image gradually merge.
His work has been presented in several international institutions and exhibitions, including the British Museum as part of the exhibition Word Into Art, the Dak’Art Biennale (8th edition), the Cairo Biennale (11th edition), the Institut du monde arabe (Paris), the National Museum of Bahrain and the Barbican Centre (London). He also participated in the Interoenia Extrart project in Italy, under the direction of Achille Bonito Oliva.
His works are held in several public and private collections, including Bank Al-Maghrib (Morocco), the Fondation Alliances (Morocco), the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (Morocco), the Royal Mansour (Morocco), the Vanhaerents Art Collection (Belgium), the Alain Dominique Perrin Collection (France), the Fondation Cartier (France), the Fondation Jean-Paul Blachère (France) and the Barjeel Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates).
Zakaria Ramhani lives and works between Tangier and Montreal.