Charif Benhelima (b.1967 in Brussels) lives and works in Antwerp and Rio de Janeiro). He studied photography and film at the Higher Institute Saint Lucas in Brussels and at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts Flanders in Antwerp from which he graduated in 1995 and 1998 repectively.

Solo shows (selection): Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa (2010), Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston TX (2010) and De Brakke Gond, Amsterdam (2007).

Group shows (selection): The Center for Contemporary Art (CBK) of the city of Dordrecht, the Netherlands (2010), Musée de Marrakech - Fondation Omar Benjelloun, Morocco (2010), Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (2009), Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2009), Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium (2009), Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2009), Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2008) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium (2008).