Sandra ENCAOUA is a French artist born in 1974. Fascinated by nature and raw elements, she questions and celebrates Creation in her works: the beauty of great landscapes (Earth's memory), the intensity of human emotions (Passing Through) and Jewish history (Judaïca).
She works in oil and watercolor.
After working for several years on the emotions and inner turmoil of the human soul, through her series [Passing Through] and her book [LoVE?] published in 2022, her current work focuses on History and its reparation, both individually and collectively. Whether through painting or writing, she questions History and its ghosts, and seeks ways to transcend them. In September 2024, she published [Oct 7], a year's worth of drawings and watercolors about the tragic events of October 7, 2023 and the days, weeks and months that followed.
Revolted by all forms of injustice, she has illustrated articles against prison overcrowding (Prison Insider, Formation DH, ..), for ecumenism (Confédération des Evêques de France...) and the 'Baal Chem Tov on Prayer' by Rav Dober Pinson. Artistic director of the 'Rencontres des auteurs francpphones' publishing house, she designs all the book covers ('Mediterranée', 'Camus, 'le Petit Prince', 'Marguerite Yourcenar',...).
Sandra won the 1st Pembroke Pines (FL, USA) Painting Prize in 2022 for her series [Passing Through], as well as the Wellington Art Society (USA) Painting Prize in 2021. In 2020, she received an Art Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation (New York, USA) and was honored with the 2017 medal from the Académie des Arts-Sciences-Lettres de Paris in France. Her work is regularly exhibited in the United States and Europe. She is a member of the Taylor Foundation (Paris) and the Jewish Art Salon (New York). Her works have been listed on the Art Market since 2012.