Michelle Sakhai

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]

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]