Christina Saj

Christina Saj is first generation Ukrainian American contemporary artist whose abstract paintings reveal a fascination with vivid color and rich pattern inspired by her heritage. Her colorful and playful paintings beckon the inner child while remaining in conversation with the Old World traditions in which her work is steeped. Her distinctly recognizable style calls on modernist roots, but unlike a lot of contemporary art, Saj’s work hails beauty to build her vocabulary. She is an iconographer of the future.

Saj continues adapting and innovating her techniques to engage modern audiences in new ways with use of unusual materials which expand her reach as a painter. Her work has been widely exhibited, including such venues as the Museum of Biblical Art (NYC), The National Cathedral, (DC) The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC), Union Theological Seminary (NYC), The Ukrainian Museum (NYC), The Museum of the Ukrainian diaspora (Kyiv, Ukraine),The Museum of Cultural Heritage (Kiev, Ukraine), The National Museum in (Lviv, Ukraine), the American Embassy (Doha, Qatar,) as well as at the White House (DC). Her works reside in private and museum collections in the US and abroad. She maintains an active studio where she welcomes commissions.

Saj holds a BA in Painting from Sarah Lawrence, an MFA from Bard College, and studied Byzantine Art History at Oxford University.