CHRISTINA SAJ
SELECTED WORKS:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Finding Sanctuary in the time of Pandemic, Installation by Christina Saj Ukrainian Museum, NYC | 2022
Sacred Space: Art as Sanctuary First Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor MI | 2021
RE:create – Christina Saj’s Transformative Paintings, Ukrainian Museum, NYC | 2019
Cruciform, Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta GA | 2014
Let the Angels Sing! 5th Avenue Presbyterian, New York, NY | 2012
On a Wing and A Prayer, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA | 2011
Images of Faith, Grantham Church, Grantham, PA | 2010
Form Seeking Expression, Marion Artistic Creations, University of Dayton, Dayton OH | 2010
The Six Days of Creation, New Brunswick Theological Seminary Chapel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ | 2008
Visions and Imaginings, artpsace 129, Montclair, NJ | 2006
Lisova Pisnia, Ukrainian Education and Cultural Center, Philadelphia PA | 2004
Art: The Ultimate Asset, PNC Bank, Montclair, NJ 2004
The Tree of Life, American Embassy, Doha, Qatar | 2004
Indomitable Spirit: Paintings of Faith, Hope and Remembrance The Interchurch Center, NY, NY | 2001
The Corporate Landscape, Brodsky Gallery, Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, NJ | 2001
Painted Prayers, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, NY, NY | 2000
Celebration of Faith, Central Presbyterian Church; Montclair, NJ | 1997
Allegories, The Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY | 1995
Saints, Kings and Prophets, The Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank New York, NY | 1995
Contemporary Icons, Norbert Considine Gallery, Princeton, NJ | 1994
New Painting, Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada | 1993
Recent Works, The Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY | 1992
Defining the Spirit Within, (MFA show) Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | 1991
Christina Saj is a Ukrainian American contemporary artist whose abstract paintings reveal a fascination with vivid color and rich pattern inspired by her heritage. Her distinctly recognizable style calls on modernist roots, and an interest in materials. Unlike a lot of modern art, Saj’s work hails beauty to build her vocabulary. She is an iconographer of the future. Her colorful and playful paintings beckon the inner child while remaining in conversation with the Old world traditions in which her work is steeped. The work offers the viewer a place of respite and visual joy. Her images allude to the tradition of sacred paintings, informed by her early training and work with Byzantine Iconographer, Petro Kholodny, the Younger, exposing her to ancient methods of painting in egg tempera. Saj holds a BA in Painting from Sarah Lawrence, an MFA from Bard College and studied Byzantine Art History at Oxford University.
Saj continues adapting and innovating her techniques to engage 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, The National Cathedral, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, Union Theological Seminary, The Ukrainian Museum in New York, The Museum of Cultural Heritage (Kiev, Ukraine), The National Museum in Lviv (Ukraine), the American Embassy in Qatar, as well as at the White House. Her works resides in private and museum collections in the US and abroad.
