Visual Artist | United Arab Emirates
Sanili
About the creator
Sanili
- Sanili Saha is a Dubai-based visual artist, educator, and corporate communication coach, originally from Calcutta. Sanili first picked up a sketchbook and colours at the age of seven, beginning a creative relationship that has continued to grow and evolve with her. Her practice explores identity, interconnectedness, and transformation through abstraction, figurative expression, and mixed media, working intuitively with acrylic, collage, texture, recycled materials, and found fragments. She believes, each one of us has a ‘story’ to tell through which we rediscover and recreate ourselves at every stage. Life remains her greatest muse with all its chaos and rhythm, unexpected turns, and infinite capacity for renewal and transformation and it is these fragments of life, its emotions, memories, chaos, and beauty that she instinctively carries onto her canvases, allowing each work to tell its own story.
Short Biography
Sanili first picked up a sketchbook at the age of seven in Calcutta and has developed her artistic practice entirely through self-guided learning, travel, and encounters with diverse cultures. She holds an MA in English, postgraduate studies in Mass Communication, and a TESOL certification, and has undertaken professional development with the British Council and through Harvard Medical School's programmes in positive psychology and wellbeing. Alongside her art practice, she brings over a decade of experience across the education, corporate, and government sectors as a communication coach. Her practice of acroyoga, with its interplay of movement, balance, trust, and energy, informs the dynamic rhythm of her work. She has exhibited across the UAE and internationally, and contributes published writing on art and social causes.
Exhibitions
Sanili has participated in group exhibitions across the UAE and internationally. Her selected exhibitions include 'Global Mosaic', presented by Artezaar and Reem Art Gallery (September 2025); 'Art Without Borders' at Novotel Al Barsha; The Taj Art Fest; the International Art Exhibition at First Wish Art Gallery in Türkiye (April 2024); 'Freedom' at Art of Living Mall with Hayat Arts (2024); 'Summer Hues' at Bedia Gallery (2023); 'Diversity of Abstract Art' at Time Out Market (2023); the Annual Art Exhibition at the International Studio of Art and Galleries (2023); the Calcutta Literary Festival (2023); and 'Women Empowerment' at Picasso Gallery (2022).
Artistic Style
Sanili's practice is rooted in the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai and functions as a spiritual discipline through which she reflects on imperfection, contradiction, transition, and possibility. She works intuitively across abstraction, figurative expression, and mixed media, building pieces through layers of acrylic, collage, texture, recycled materials, and found fragments. Each work evolves through uncertainty and discovery rather than predetermined composition. The influence of her practice of acroyoga, her travels, and her engagement with language and poetry all feed into a visual vocabulary that treats lived experience as primary material.
Additional Information
Sanili holds an MA in English, postgraduate studies in Mass Communication, and a TESOL certification. She has completed professional development with the British Council and through Harvard Medical School's programmes in positive psychology and wellbeing. She is a member of the Artezaar community and has published writing on art and social causes. Her work in communication and art both address authentic human expression and how we understand and communicate our inner worlds.
Masterpieces by Sanili
