Britt Michaelian

Newport Beach–based artist and healer Britt Michaelian creates paintings that combine Jungian symbolic forms with a guided meditation for the collector's personal wellness practice. Her visual language centers on the circle — layered, radiant forms that reference mandalas, ritual, and the human desire for wholeness. In Jungian art therapy, the circular form is associated with integration and psychic balance. In Michaelian's paintings, it becomes a contemporary, sensorial motif that is graphic, calming, and deeply personal.

Her studio process incorporates 528 Hz tuning forks, powdered mineral pigments, and Reiki — a complementary therapy now used in integrative medicine programs at major hospitals, with recent research indicating measurable reductions in patient anxiety and pain. As a Usui and Karuna Ki Reiki Master, Michaelian brings the practice into the act of painting itself: a discipline of attention, presence, and intention embedded in the making of each work.

Trained in both fine art and clinical practice, Michaelian holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and master's degrees in Art Therapy and Marriage and Family Therapy. Before devoting herself fully to her current practice, she worked as an expressiv...

University of Southern California

Otis College, Foundation Program

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA

Notre Dame de Namur University, MA - Art Therapy

Notre Dame de Namur University, MA - Marriage and Family Therapy


California Pacific Medical Center, Practicum

Institute for Health and Healing Certification in Expressive Arts Therapy in the Hospital Setting

Usui Reiki Master

BQH Quantum Healing Hypnosis Practitioner

Ordained Minister

2025 Invitational Exhibition "Love, Peace, Unity and Hope" to Celebrate Manhattan Arts International's 25th Anniversary

2024 Artventure Juried Exhibition, Costa Mesa, CA

2024 Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

2024 Healing House : EXPANSION at SLS Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA

2024 Abstract Frequency, Weinholt Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2024 The Healing Power of Color 2024

2023 The Healing Power of Color 2023

2023 Manhattan Arts International: HerStory

2023 THE PEACE WITHIN at Healing House, Laguna Beach, CA

2022 The Healing Power of ART: Resilience 2022

2006-2009 Private Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

2006 Sundance Film Festival - Self Magazine Luxury Lounge, Park City, UT

2006 Kana Manglapus Projects, Venice, CA

2006 Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY

2005 Cannonball Fine Art, San Anselmo, CA

2005 Blue Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002 LIMN - Ligne Roset Showroom, San Francisco, CA

1999 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL