Rachid KHIMOUNE

Sculptor, Rachid Khimoune was born from Kabyle parents, in Decazeville France, in 1953. Graduated from the School of art of Paris in 1974, he first starts painting before choosing sculpture. With numerous monumental realizations, Rachid is “exposed” since 1975 in a dozen of museums, public and private collections.
... “Memory has seized for itself all sorts of potential visual potential, itself boundless in oral possibilities and this vital eclecticism translates, without any sort of deceitful action, into a the universality of a language borne of a very personal shorthand of instinct”… Pierre Restany, Art Critic, 1995.



Lauréat du Prix de la Fondation de France (1980)
Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (2002)
Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris (2004)
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2007)