Hicham Benohoud was born in 1968 in Marrakech.
After graduating in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in plastic arts, he headed for the Centre pédagogique régional in Marrakech. The teaching profession soon seemed irreconcilable with his vocation as an artist: he left teaching to become a professional in the plastic arts and, in 2003, continued his training at the Ecole supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Strasbourg.
In 1998, he exhibited thousands of small identity portraits, meticulously juxtaposed and glued to canvas or nailed directly to the wall. The originality of his approach is immediately astonishing, and underlines the unclassifiable nature of the artist's work: he is as much a visual artist as a photographer.
Hicham Benohoud has exhibited several times in Morocco and abroad. He took part in “Africa Remix”, one of the biggest international events dedicated to contemporary art in Africa. He has also taken part in two major exhibitions: “Contemporary photography in the Arab world” at the Aperture Foundation in New York and “Regards des photographes arabes contemporains” at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Two monographs have been devoted to Hicham Benohoud's work: La salle de classe (2001) and Des lycéens par eux-mêmes (2002).
Hicham Benohoud's work has been included in a number of prestigious collections, including La Maison Rouge, the Fondation Antoine Galbert (Paris), the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain de Paris, the Artotèque de Nantes, the Calcographie Nationale de l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Madrid and the M HKA, Musée d'Art Contemporain d'Anvers.
Hicham Benohoud lives and works in Marrakech.