Djamel Tatah was born in Saint-Chamond, France in 1959. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint Étienne from 1981 to 1986 and moved to Marseille in 1989. In 1999, Tatah held his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert in Paris. Tatah currently lives and works in Provence and teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Read MoreWidely exhibited in France and abroad, his works have been included in solo and group exhibitions at: Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2005); Museum of Fine Arts, Nantes (2008); MAMAC, Nice (2009); Villa Medici, Rome (2010); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Algiers (2013); Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence (2013); Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Étienne (2014), and features in the public collections of the Assemblée Nationale, Paris, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
