Photo by Sophie Bonnin Rocher

Born in Morocco, and now based in London, Assia studied interior design in Paris before working as a mural artist in Hong Kong for 13 years. Her paintings have been featured in global art exhibitions and contemporary art fairs including Art Central, the Asia Contemporary Art show in Hong Kong and The Other Art Fair in London.

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Assia Bennani is a Moroccan artist and designer based in London.
For as long as she can remember, Assia has been drawing as a way to escape, reflect, or heal. From a young age, she decided to pursue an artistic career, and at 18, she left her native Morocco to study Interior Design in Paris.
In 2006, after her first professional experiences in Interior design, she moved to Hong Kong, where she worked for 14 years as a mural artist and began exhibiting her first paintings in 2018.
Her paintings seem to dance between fiction and reality, belonging to no particular place.
She sees them as visual bridges between multiple realities, cultures, and time frames, where characters often coexist with an abundant playful nature, sometimes imagined, sometimes remembered.
Through poetic and free compositions, her paintings invite the viewer to dream and explore a rich inner world.
While her artistic practice comes from a therapeutic place, Assia hopes that her work brings to those who discover it a joyful moment of poetry, comfort, and a sense of connection.
She uses mostly acrylic paint but enjoys other medium like ink, gouache or oil paint.
SELECTED SHOWS
2024 - BEAT, London
2023 - The Other Art Fair, London
2023 - BEAT, London
2023 - Solo show at REPOT, London
2023 - REJECTS, London
2022 - The Other Art Fair, London
2022 - Ealing Art Trail, London
2022 - Intern. women day Auction by Art on a Postcard, London
2021 - The Other Art Fair, London
2019 - Group show at Auberge, Hong Kong
2019 - Art Central with Sovereign art Foundation #Safpigs2019
2019 - Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong
2018 - Couleurs de Chine Charity show, Hong Kong
2010 - Solo Show, Kama Sutra murals, PMQ Hong Kong
EDUCATION
Windmill Road
W5 4UR London
United Kingdom
hello@assiabennani.com
(+44) 7510 791511