Ben Heine

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Heine
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1983(1983-06-12)
Age	41
Birthplace	Abidjan
Country	Ivory Coast
Horoscope	Gemini

Ben Heine Biography

Ben Heine is one of the most popular and richest Visual Artist who was born on June 12, 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

He was born in 1983 in Ivory Coast and currently lives and works in Belgium. Ben has a degree in Journalism and is a self-taught person in drawing, photography and music. His creations have been featured in newspapers, magazines and major publications worldwide and since 2010 his works have begun to populate art galleries and museums in Europe, Asia and Russia. Heine permanently stopped doing political art in 2009. A documentary about his work was released in 2012.

Between 1988 and 2006, Heine undertook studies in different countries, including Ivory Coast, Belgium, the UK and the Netherlands. He attended primary school at Notre Dame de La Trinité in Brussels. As a student, Heine easily became frustrated and bored, often becoming difficult to manage in school. It wasn’t until he attended secondary education at “Collège Saint Vincent” in Belgium that he evolved into a more disciplined student. As a teenager, he explored drawing, painting and writing poetry to music and athletics.

Ben Heine Net Worth

Ben Heine is one of the richest Visual Artist from Ivory Coast. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Heine 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ben was born in 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. where he spent the first seven years of his life, with his parents and three sisters. His family relocated in Brussels, Belgium, in 1990. His father was a commercial engineer and his mother a choreographer and a dance teacher. Heine started drawing at 11 years of age. At that time, his curiosity for visual art was his keenest interest.

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Traditionally trained in journalism and communications at IHECS Journalism School, Heine tried his hand at political cartoons because he wanted to connect his interest in art with his studies in Journalism. This brief encounter was far less charitable to him than he had hoped. His political activism, at the cusp of his youth, unleashed a string of criticism and threats. In the end, Heine felt it was perhaps wiser to walk away from political cartoons in 2009.

Facts & Trivia

Beniamino Ranked on the list of most popular Visual Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ivory Coast. Ben Heine celebrates birthday on June 12 of every year.

This is the name Heine has given to a whole new creative technique he has developed in 2010. It is a mix between Pop Art and Pointillism. In this project, Heine usually makes portraits of celebrities/cultural icons with digital tools using flat circles on a black background. Each circle has a single color and a single tone. Trends Hunter said about Digital Circlism: “Through the use of graphic software and a whole lot of creativity, Ben Heine is able to create iconic faces from history and pop culture by drawing circles of various sizes and colors. In order to give them a dynamic and 3-dimensional appearance”. The artist stated he has been making portraits for over 15 years but it wasn’t very long ago that he started developing this original technique. “As I’ve been working with digital tools recently, this came quite naturally, and I’m a big fan of Pop Art and Pointillism. Digital Circlism is a modern mix of them”.