Michele Oka Doner received her B.S.D. and M.F.A. in Fine Art University of Michigan and is the recipient of many accolades, including the Award of Excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers and Artists. The artist’s work is featured in numerous prominent art museums and private collections across several continents, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York; The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida; The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and the Musée Décoratifs, Louvre, Paris, France.

Oka Doner is also renowned for creating over thirty-five public art installations throughout the United States. and Europe, including A Walk on the Beach at the Miami International Airport, Radiant Site at Herald Square, New York, New York; Flight at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington, Virginia; Forces of Nature, Port Everglades, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Soul Catchers, Nymphenburg, Munich, Germany; as well as installations at Federal courthouses in Greenville, Tennessee, Gulfport, Mississippi and Laredo, Texas; the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; public libraries in Sacramento, California, Evanston, Illinois and Toms River, New Jersey, and The Museum of Natural History in New York, New York. Most recently, Oka Doner mounted a solo presentation, entitled The True Story of Eve, at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.