Amar Briki

Amar Briki was born in 1963 in Dellys (Algeria). Graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Algiers in 1986, he participated in 1987 in a project in tribute to Pablo Picasso, entitled “Painted Buses". The period of the 90s inaugurates a new stage of his artistic career abroad where: He participates in the International Graphic Triennial of Cracow (Poland) in 1991, and exhibits at the Algerian cultural center in Paris in 1994.

He spent 1996-1999 in Tunisia. During this period, he participated in the international festival of Visual Arts in Mahares in 1997, and exhibited in various galleries in Tunis, notably at the Mille feuille and Ammar Ferhat gallery.

In 1998 he did an artist residency, in the studio of the Rodriguez Acosta foundation in Granada (Spain), on his return to Algeria, he exhibited at the Italian cultural center in 2000, and participated in several events in France during the year of Algeria in France.

In 2010, he exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary History in Moscow (Russia), as well as in Paris (France) at the Salon de Mai; In 2012, he exhibited at the Orestiadi foundation in Sicily (Italy). In 2014, he participated in the International Contemporary Art Fair in Strasbourg St'Art, where he was selected among the fifteen focus of the show.

He exhibited at Seen Art Gallery solo in April 2017, exhibition entitled "Intimate Fragments".

Since then, he has participated in several group exhibitions in Algiers. His works are kept in various private collections in Algeria and abroad.