Yazid Oulab was born in 1958 in Constantine, Algeria. His father was a mechanic, his mother a French teacher, and he is the nephew of writer Kateb Yacine. Oulab is a multi-faceted artist and a man with an old soul. His practice seems to be informed by centuries of rich and diverse civilizations. He is an interpreter and a messenger capable of analyzing and translating into simplified objects millennia of cultural, social and spiritual history. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Algiers in 1985. Arriving in Marseille in 1987, he obtained his National Diploma in Plastic Arts in 1992 at Ecole de Marseille Luminy. In 2008, he was featured in the exhibition Les Traces du Sacré (“Traces of the Sacred”) at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, and was a resident at the Calder studio from February to July 2009. This year, he has been chosen to inaugurate the new headquarters of the FRAC PACA in Marseille, with the occasion of Marseille’s year as a European Capital of Culture. His work has been presented in exhibition at international institutions, including The Pompidou Center, Paris, France / Toulouse Les Abattoirs Contemporary Art Museum, Toulouse, France / The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania / the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Oulab’s work forms part of prestigious collections of art including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France / FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France / Musée National d’Art Moderne (MNAM), Paris, France / Les Abattoirs Museum, Toulouse, France / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal and Fondation Musée d’Art Contemporain Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg. Lives and works in Marseille, France.