Recognition includes:
1. Experimenting
- Best in Show at the 20th Annual Judged & Juried Show (Sept 2023) sponsored by the Mispillion Art League
- Selected to participate in the 2024 Allied Artists of America Associate Online Exhibition. Viewable from May 15 2024 to May 15 2026 (https://showsubmit.com/gallery/aaa-2024-associate-online-show?view=thumbnails)
2. Five Dogs Waiting
- Selected to participate in the National Oil & Acrylic Painter Society Associate Member Online Exhibition 2024 (https://www.noaps.org/2024-member-on-line)
- Selected to participate in the Naturalist Gallery Surrealism Exhibition. (https://naturalist.gallery/collections/surrealism)
3. Two Smart Toads - Selected to participate in the Naturalist Gallery/ Nature Exhibit (https://naturalist.gallery/collections/nature)
4. One Day at an Overpass - Selected to participate in the National Oil & Acrylic Painter Society Associate Member Online Exhibition 2025 (https://www.noaps.org/2025-member-on-line)
5. Gratitude
- Selected to participate in the Naturalist Gallery Absurd Exhibition Jan 2026 (https://naturalist.gallery/collections/absurd)
- Selected to participate in the 2026 Allied Artists of America Associate Online Exhibition. Viewable from May 15 2026 to May 15 2028 (https://showsubmit.com/gallery/aaa-2026-associate-online-show?current=falling-water-by-michal-barkai&view=thumbnails)
6. Eat Your Veggies - Selected to participate in the Rehoboth Art League 88th Members' Fine Art Exhibition
7. Selected to participate in the “Abstract, Non-Objective, Fantasy, Surrealism: Think Ponder & Wonder” Art Exhibit at The Smyrna Opera House, from October 6 to November 6, 2026. Ten works include:
Episode III, Gathering of Olives, Magic of a Blue Moon, Knot a Tree !!!, Eat your Veggies, Gratitude, Mystery of the Caerbannog Rabbit, The Presence of Light, Harvest Moon, and Ode to an Arbutus Tree (Day)