Sandra Encaoua

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Sandra ENCAOUA is a French american artist born in Paris in 1974. Fascinated by nature and raw elements, she creates in her paintings a changing, violent, free universe where she strives to touch the truth of the subject, to perceive its essence.

Her current work focuses on the search for the transmission of emotions through large abstract portraits done in oil and spray. Each of his paintings has a particular and precise meaning. They are all accompanied by a sentence, an excerpt from a book that enlightens the visitor on the work.

Sensitized by the defense of the right of the prisoners throughout the world, she contributed with several illustrations to show the reality of the prisons, in particular in Africa (collaboration with Synergy Cooperation, Prison Insider, ...)

Sandra won in 2020 a Miami Art Grant by Locus Project supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation (New York, USA). She received the 2018 People Choice Award from the Wellington Art Society (USA) and was honored with the 2017 'Arts-Sciences-Lettres' medal by the Académie des Arts-Sciences-Lettres de Paris.

Her work is regularly exhibited in the United States and Europe. She is a member of the Taylor Foundation (Paris, France), the Jewish A...

2009-2012
Study of Painting and Drawing techniques at the Arts House of Saint Maur (France)

1995
Professional Training in Graphic Design, Website Design and Editing Software (Paris)

1994
European Diploma in Graphic Design and Communication (DEESCOM)

2022 Palais des Congres, Tregastel, France
Invalides de Paris, France
Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, USA
Igal Fedida Gallery, Miami, USA
2021 Galerie Art Motion, France
Wellington Art Society, USA
Studio 18, Pembroke pines, USA
City of Kokomo, USA
2020 Las Olas ART FAIR 2020, Fort
Lauderdale, USA
ARTFTL20, Art Fort Lauderdale, USA
2019 Kinor Gallery, Paris, France
Wellington City Hall, Wellington, USA
Carré des Coignard, Nogent sur
Marne, France
2018 SPECTRUM, ART BASEL Miami, USA
Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, France
Village Design, Fort Lauderdale, USA
BROOKLYN ART GALLERY, New York
2017 Salons du Gouverneur des Invalides,
Paris, France
Cercle des Artistes Parisiens, Paris
Art & Light Exhibit, Mi...