2007 - The "Anthony Van Deyck 2007 Award " , Lecce , Italy . 

2006 -  She was appointed as Honorable Professor , Associate Academician at 

the Academia del la Arte "Greci-Marino " del Verbano, Italy.

2003 - The Bronze Medal at the "Salon des Artistes Francais " , Paris , France

2004 - The Big Gold Medal at the" La Monde des Cultures et des Arts" 

Festival Cannes , France.

Michal Ashkenasi was born in the Netherlands. She emigrated to Israel in 

1951 and settled in kibutz Gvar-Am , where she married and lived for 17 years. After leaving the kibutz , the family moved to an agriculture school in the vicinity of Haifa .

In 1980 she began painting and a year later went to the Haifa University to study art. With the end of her study , she became a member of the Horev 

Studio in Haifa , where she worked with the late G. Davidovitz for 2 years and , after his death, with the known Israeli artist , Jacob Zim, for several years.

From 1990-1996 she had her own studio and gallery in Sefad and was a member of the Artist Colony there. Nowadays she lives and works at her home in Kfar-Saba .

which is a group of 12 artists with the goal of working around an idea and 

exhibiting together. With this group she did 4 exhibitions , one of it called : 

"Shadows" , was exhibited in Wiesbaden , Germany. She is a member of the 

I.C.U. international organization .