Sacha Floch Poliakoff was born in Paris in 1996 where she still lives and works.
Formed in the studio of Jean-Michel Alberola at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as early as 2015, Sacha Floch Poliakoff began with classical training. Studio life offered her great freedom and allowed her to pursue her own personal research. In 2018, thanks to an exchange with SVA, the School of Visual Arts of New York, she expanded her palette, discovering oil painting with her teacher Matvey Levenstein, an artist at Kasmin Gallery. Floch Poliakoff completed her studies in the studio of Stéphane Calais and graduated in 2020.
In addition to having executed commissions for illustrations, murals or posters, also exhibits her own work. She is regularly presented at the Galerie Pixi in Paris and her work has also been shown in group exhibitions or fairs in Paris, London and New York.
The first exhibitions began in 2016, when works by Floch Poliakoff were shown at the Zürcher Salon in New York. She also participated in the Wendy Galerie’s Bibelot Summer Show (curated by Callisto McNulty and Éric Bauer) and the group show On Pas Manque d’Art (curated by Annabelle Cohen-Boulakia) in 2018, before being presented at Draw Art Fair London at the Saatchi Gallery in 2019.
The year of her graduation, she participated in the 5th edition of the Galeristes fair in Paris at the Carreau du Temple.
Since then, she has participated in a series of exhibitions including Doomed and Famous, a selection of works from Adrian Dannatt’s collection at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London in 2021 and more recently at Bienvenue Art Fair at the legendary La Louisiane Hotel as well as Bijoux d’Artistes, Chefs d’oeuvre des Ateliers Hugo at the Pierre-Alain Challier Gallery.
Moving outside the confines of the art scene: she has appeared on the television show Boite Noire on the French television station of Canal+ to present her work.
Her work also extends to auction houses; with the donation of a drawing for the charity initiative “#ProtègeTonSoignant”, organized by the French auction house of Piasa, but above all through the numerous commissions she continues to receive for illustration work.
She alternates her painting with illustration, collaborating with different designers or fashion houses such as Casa Lopez, Thierry Colson and Bourgine and with magazines and publishers such as Les Echos Série Limitée, GQ, Air Mail Weekly, Stock or Alfred A. Knopf. In 2021, Sasha Floch Poliakoff succeeded Pierre Le Tan alongside José Lozano to illustrate the marketing campaign for Laurent-Perrier champagne.
Testifying to the breadth of her work, in 2018, at the request of the architect Florence Lopez, she created a 38m2 painting for the restaurant Mon Square in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. She revealed yet another facet of her talent in 2021, with the creation of a brochure for the visit of the Museum of Modern Art of Fontevraud, for the first edition of a residency with the museum.
Marked by her origins and her family history, she has a particular affection for objects, which are for her precious witnesses of what animates her, carries her and surrounds her. These objects, these memories, present in most of her works, are archetypes of her personal iconography, almost forming an emotional inventory. Playing, regrouping, composing, she places her artifacts on the canvas which becomes a sort of an elusive receptacle. Using the line to abolish their individual importance, thus forming an atemporal world accessible to all.
These obsessions, fascinations, are revealed through collage, drawing, textile, painting and watercolor. An artist who expresses herself fully without revealing too much, a work full of dignity. Through all of this, we discover a world driven by color and more or less figurative forms, through various techniques. Floch Poliakoff likes to play with and adapt the classics of art history so that they can endure. Her heritage, her customs and yearnings come from her family, as a way for them to cope with the exile and distance from their origins, in Russia. Each of the images she represents has a story, an evocative power. It is a virtual memorial where the past and the present connect.
In 2023, Clavé Fine Art presented her first solo exhibition.