Protect Me, 2026

Sarah Elqa  

Sarah Elqa is a self-taught Franco-Moroccan contemporary artist, born in Morocco. Painting has accompanied her since childhood as an instinctive language, shaped by a deep relationship with color, emotion, and gesture.

Before fully dedicating herself to her pictorial work, she worked as a fashion designer for over ten years in Morocco and internationally. This experience has had a lasting influence on her artistic approach, refining her sense of texture, rhythm, and composition. Having permanently settled in France several years ago, her second country, she opened her studio and began commercializing her work, marking a new phase in her artistic journey.

A descendant of the Fauvist painter Maurice de Vlaminck, Sarah Elqa develops a contemporary, free, and expressive pictorial language. Her work moves between abstraction and figuration, engaging in a constant dialogue between gestural energy and human presence.

Her abstract style is characterized by strong chromatic intensity, a living materiality, and spontaneous movement, where color becomes a fully expressive emotional language. Forms emerge, overlap, or dissolve, leaving space for intuition and freedom of gesture.

Alongside this, figurative painting holds an essential place in her work. She frequently depicts characters, silhouettes, faces, bodies in motion, carrying emotions, identities, and intimate narratives. These figures, often expressive and powerful, embody the human condition, femininity, inner strength, and cultural diversity. Sometimes suggested, sometimes fully asserted, they are always animated by the vibration of color and matter.

Her work has been presented at several international contemporary art fairs, notably in the United States, New York and Miami, as well as in Asia, including South Korea and Taiwan. Her artworks are part of prestigious private collections, including those of international figures from the film industry.

Deeply committed to charitable causes, Sarah Elqa actively supports various humanitarian and social initiatives by regularly donating her artworks to auctions and fundraising events. This commitment is an integral part of her artistic practice, which she envisions as a space for transmission, sharing, and meaning.

Through an instinctive and deeply inhabited painting, Sarah Elqa asserts a singular artistic signature, at the crossroads of cultures, where abstraction and figuration meet to celebrate emotion, freedom, and the living.

Exhibitions

2025

Affordable Art Fair, New York (USA)
World Art Expo, Seoul (South Korea)
JC Gallery, New York (USA)

2024

Art Expo New York, New York (USA)

2022

Red Dot Miami (USA)
Art Expo New York, New York (USA)

Charity Galas

2026

Auction at the Women of Monaco Lunch hosted by the Princess Grace Foundation, Monaco, March 11

2025

Auction at the Women of Monaco Lunch & Awards Princess Grace Foundation, Monaco
Auction at the Tee Break Trophy for the Sos Gazelles Association, Paris (France)
Auction & Gala Dinner to benefit La Maison des Parents de Nantes, Ronald McDonald House Charities, La Baule (France)
Auction by Christie's at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Legacy Gala, Zurich (Switzerland)