Hicham Benohoud was born in 1968 in Marrakech.
A Moroccan visual artist, Hicham Benohoud has developed, since the 1990s, a body of work at the intersection of photography, painting and staged composition, exploring notions of identity, the body and power relations.
After studying visual arts at the Centre pédagogique régional in Marrakech, he taught for several years in a secondary school in the city. This experience became the starting point for his major series The Classroom (1994–2002), created with his students. By transforming the school space into a site of visual experimentation, he stages constrained, fragmented or obstructed bodies, revealing mechanisms of discipline, normalisation and the erasure of the individual.
Since then, Hicham Benohoud has developed a practice combining photography and painting, built around rigorously composed mises-en-scène. Between humour, absurdity and tension, his works détourne ordinary situations to reveal forms of strangeness and unease.
His work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and is held in major collections, including the Tate (United Kingdom), the Museo Reina Sofía (Spain), the MuHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (Belgium), the Fonds national d’art contemporain (France) and the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (Morocco).
In 2025, the monographic publication The Classroom (Loose Joints) received the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Award.
Hicham Benohoud lives and works in Marrakech.