Algerian painter. Djahida Houadef studied and taught at the École supérieure des beaux-arts d'Alger2. She also has a diploma in painting and ceramics, is an art teacher and ran art workshops for children from 1987 to 2011 at the Musée national des beaux-arts d'Alger2. She obtained a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures Artistiques by participating in Denis Martinez's workshops4 and also obtained a Certificat d'Enseignement Artistique Général (CEAG) in ceramics4 . She stopped teaching in 2000, devoting herself solely to painting2. She has taken part in several exhibitions abroad in Spain, France, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Greece5 and in Algeria, where she has taught art in private schools and high schools in Algiers4.