About The Artist

Hassiba KESSACI is a painter, illustrator and monotype engraver based in Rennes (France). She short trained in illustration at the EDAA artschool (France) and in fashion illustration at the London College of Fashion. Her artworks are characterized by the permanency of drawing -expressive, delicate and minimalist with the influences of Egon Schiele and Jean Cocteau-and a visual language by color - sometimes in tension and saturated -, whether in inkmonotypes, works in dip pen and Indian ink, expressive sketches with fine felt or dot made drawings with dip pen . She has been finalist at the Florence Contemporary Gallery Competition in January 2021. She has been published on April 2021 in the social media of the Chinese fashion brand MUKZIN who defiled at the New York Fashion Week in 2020. Hassiba KESSACI won the certificate of artistic merit of the prestigious Luxembourg Art Prize on December 2021. She is represented by The Florence Contemporary Gallery ( Florence, Italy ) since July 2022.