Charif Benhelima (b. 1967 Brussels) lives and works in Antwerp .

Master in Fine Arts at the Higher Institute Saint Lucas, Brussels, and Laureate at the HISK - Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Benhelima investigates the notion of identity, memory/oblivion, document, and truth through images that explore perception, time and space, and a sense of invisibility. Besides having worked with analogical photography, he has been long experimenting with Polaroid 600.

Nominated for the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography 2008 (Harvard University/Peabody Museum), Benhelima’s diverse aesthetic, formal and conceptual research nevertheless compose a coherent and singular oeuvre. He has showed in Monopolis, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Once upon a Time… A Look at Art: Belgium in the Nineties, MuHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Costanti Diversità: Premio Del Golfo La Spezia 2004, Biennale Europea Arti Visive La Spezia, Centro Arte Moderna a Contemporanea Della Spezia, La Spezia; Semites, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Berlin Tendenzen, Palau de la Virreina - La Capella, Barcelona, Mimésis, Extra City - Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp.

He is represented by the Crown Gallery  in Brussels.