Biography
Born in 1952 in Sidi bel Abbès, Algeria, Hellal Zoubir is a painter and designer.
Zoubir studied at the Society of Fine Arts in Algiers (1966-1967), was graduated from the National School of Architecture and Fine Arts in Algiers (1967-1970) and the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris in interior architecture (1970-1974). He obtained a post-graduate degree in Fine Arts from the University Paris-St Denis (1988) and a master’s in history and Theory of Arts at the Superior School of Fine Arts at Algiers, 2002).
In 2003, he became the Director of the Department of Plastic Arts at the "Commissioner of the Year of Algeria" in France (2002-2004).
From 1986 to 2013, he was represented by the Algerian gallery Isma, executing a monumental fresco at the Algiers faculties tunnel in a collaboration with Malek Salah.
He also curated numerous exhibitions including Contemporary African Art - Maghreb and African design at the Museum of Modern Art in Algiers for "The Arab Year" in 2007, "the Panafrican Festival" in 2010, and "The Algerian Designer" at the Arab World Institute, in Paris in 2012.
He was a member of the National Council of Arts and Letters (2012-2015) and the Chairman of the National Commission for Assistance to the Arts & Humanities (2013-2014).
His works are parts of prestigious art collection: the National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers, Zabana museum at Oran, the Presidency of the Republic (Algiers), the Ministry of Culture (Algiers) at the Embassy of France (Algiers), El Salvador museum Allende in Santiago (Chile), at the Arab Hispano Institute of the Kingdom of Spain, and in many private collections in Algeria and abroad (France, Belgium, United States, Spain, Italy).