Michelle Sakhai

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Michelle Sakhai
Born1983
Alma mater Hofstra University
Academy of Art University
OccupationPainter
Website michellesakhai.com

Michelle Sakhai is an American painter and educator.

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Early life and education

Michelle Sakhai was born in 1983 [1] to a Japanese mother and Iranian father, spending her youth in New York. [2] She graduated from Hofstra University with a BA in Art History and minor in Fine Arts, and received her MFA from Academy of Art University. [3] She has also studied in Venice, Italy; Barcelona at the d’Arts Plastique I Disseny; and France at the Marchutz Academy of Fine Art in Aix en Provence. [4] [5]

Art career

Sakhai is an abstract expressionist artist bringing spirituality into her paintings. [4] Her paintings have been created using oils and mixed mediums such as metal leaf. [6] [7] Her solo exhibitions include the 2012 exhibition Awakenings, shown at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. [3] Her work has also appeared in group exhibitions at venues including Lehman College [8] and Stanford Art Spaces. [9] In 2016 her paintings were the focus of the book AWAKENING: The Paintings of Michelle Sakhai. [10] That year her work was shown in the solo exhibition Treasured Elements at the Madelyn Jordon Fine Art Gallery. [11] In September 2019, Sakhai opened her exhibition Arcana: Interpretations of the Tarot at the same gallery. [5]

Other work

In 2017 Sakhai became the artist-in-residence for the Fairmont San Francisco. [12] She taught painting at the University of California, Berkeley, [3] in addition to teaching Transformative Art at the Harlem Hospital Center and Primordial Sound Meditation at the Chopra Center. Currently she serves on the HCLAS Dean's Advisory Board at Hofstra University. [13]

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