Saad Hassani was born in Rabat in 1948.
A self-taught painter, he shaped his art and personality through encounters with others and travels abroad. He began exhibiting in Morocco in 1967.
Attentive to the artistic developments around him, Saad Hassani moved from figurative expressionism towards a more abstract form of expressionism.
In 1970, Hassani converted a private mansion into a space for visiting artists from abroad. The studio soon became a meeting place for painters, poets and intellectuals in the capital. Two years later, he sold his paintings and furniture, destroyed his sketches and preparatory works, and moved to Casablanca, settling in a hotel room overlooking the sea.
He began developing the first elements of what he called “fragments gathered from the landscape”: earth, water, wind and celestial bodies. In 1980, he exhibited at one of Europe’s most prestigious venues: the Miró Foundation in Madrid.
In 1992, he created a monumental work, a 210 m² sail, for the 1998 World Expo in Lisbon.
He lives and works in Casablanca.