Sandra ENCAOUA BERRIH is a Franco-American visual artist. Founder of the Trans EXPRESSIONIST movement, she blends expressionism and spirituality in her work, celebrating a painting of passage and inner alchemy, where emotion becomes breath and presence.
Each artwork is a space of transition, breath, and vibration. She mainly works around three themes: landscapes and their transcendence (Earth’s Memory), the intensity of human emotions (Passing Through), and Jewish history (Judaica). She works primarily with oil and watercolor.
After spending several years exploring the emotions and upheavals of the human soul, her current work focuses on History and its repair through spirituality. She questions History, its ghosts, and seeks ways to transcend them. In September 2024, she published the book [Oct 7], which brings together a year of drawings and watercolors inspired by the tragic events of October 7, 2023, and the days, weeks, and months that followed.
Outraged by all forms of inequality, she has illustrated articles addressing prison overcrowding (Prison Insider, Formation DH, etc.), works promoting ecumenism (Confederation of the Bishops of France, etc.), as well as Baal Shem Tov on Prayer by Rabbi Dober Pinson. As Artistic Director of the publishing house Rencontres des auteurs francophones, she designs book covers (Mediterranée, Camus, The Little Prince, Marguerite Yourcenar, etc.).
In 2022, Sandra won the First Prize in Painting from the City of Pembroke Pines (FL, USA) for her Passing Through series, as well as the Painting Prize of the Wellington Art Society (USA) in 2021. In 2020, she received an art grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation (New York, USA) and was honored in 2017 with the medal of the Académie des Arts-Sciences-Lettres of Paris, France. Her works are 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 artworks have been listed on the Art Market since 2012.