Rachid Khimoune is a French sculptor of Algerian descent born on April 7, 1953, in Decazeville, Aveyron.
His father came in France in 1946 from El Ksar in Kabylie, Algeria. Between 1970 and 1974, Rachid Khimoune studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Painter at first, he became a sculptor in the late 70s and early 80s. Since 1991, he lives with the journalist Ève Ruggiéri[ citation needed ].