Her work is collected and exhibited in numerous public and private collections including: The Andrea Soros Collection, MAAM Museum permanent collection, the Tainan Museum of Modern Art, and Tsenpo Museum in eastern Tibet, China. In 2020 she was featured in New American Painting, #146, juried by Jerry Saltz. In 2022 her work was part of an ARTSY auction curated by Wendy Olsoff and Eden Deering of PPOW Gallery in support of Pen + Brush. Martello also curated a group show titled The Fire And The Cow at Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milano. In 2022, she was again invited as artist in residence at Siao Long Cultural Park, Taiwan, where she produced The Heavenly Princesses and the BAM Ripple, for which she received an Artist Merit Prize. In 2023 Martello received a private grant to produce her project Just Love and was awarded the first edition of the Tristate Italian Art Prize juried by Paola Antonelli, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Olnick, which was hosted at the Italian Embassy. In 2024 Michela was invited by the Tsenpo Museum in Tibet/China as the first artist in residence to launch their artistic program, she was also accepted at AIRK, art residency in Kobe, Japan. In 2025 she was shortlisted for the Erarta prize at Zona Maco, Mexico City. Martello collaborates with Pen + Brush NYC, The Camp Gallery, Miami and Galleria Giovanni Bonelli Milano. 

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