AHMED HAJERI

Franco-Tunisian painter — from discreet sketches to the world’s walls

Born in November 1948 in Tazerka, a small coastal village in Tunisia, Ahmed Hajeri grew up in a modest environment where art was not a given. In 1968, he left his homeland to settle in France. He first led the life of an electrician, far from studios and galleries, until a stroke of luck changed the course of his story: his sketches, imbued with a unique sensitivity, were noticed by architect and artist Roland Morand.

In 1977, his first exhibition at Galerie Messine in Paris met with immediate success and caught the attention of the art world. Since then, Paris has remained his home port, while staying open to the multiple horizons that fuel his imagination.

For more than four decades, Ahmed Hajeri has exhibited across the world, in prestigious institutions and galleries: Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille (Paris), Phyllis Kind Gallery (New York), Kanvas Art Gallery (Tunis), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), as well as in Seoul, Seville, Dakar, and Damascus.

A self-taught artist, he has developed a pictorial language free from academic constraints, where Tunisian memory and cosmopolitan influences dialogue in a colorful, poetic, and deeply personal universe. His works, fragments of wandering and emotion, testify to his ability to transform uprootedness into creative power.



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