Mohamed Melehi (1936, Asilah –2020, Paris) was a painter, printmaker, designer, muralist, and teacher. His compositions are characterized by curved forms and undulating parallel rhythms. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A pioneer of modernism and a cultural activist in post-colonial Morocco, he was one of the founders of the Casablanca School. Alongside other artists, he organized the manifesto-exhibition Présence plastique at Jemaa el-Fnaa square in Marrakech. His work has been exhibited at MACAAL (Marrakech), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York). His works are part of the collections of MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha).