Said Bouftass

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 252-267-2290

Said Bouftass is originally from Casablanca, Morocco. After high school, he went to Paris to study at the majestic Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he was also an assistant to professors Francois Fontaine and Philippe Comar. He then worked with Jean-Francois Debord, who had accompanied him in his doctoral research at the University of Paris Saint-Dénis where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy of art in 2001.

Said then returned to Morocco to teach the art of drawing the human body and the morphology of human body at the National School of Architecture in Rabat and at the National Institute of Fine Art in Tetouan. He currently lives and work in Chicago.