Sonia Gechtoff
Biography:
Sonia Gechtoff
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926 – 2018 New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions:
Bortolami, New York, Sonia Gechtoff, Objects on the New Landscape, 2024
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, Sonia Gechtoff, Objects on the New Landscape, 2024
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Sonia Gechtoff, Guardian of the Green, 2023
David Richard Gallery, New York, Sonia Gechtoff, Drawings: Graphite on Paper 1960s through
2000s, 2022
Bortolami, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto, David Richard Gallery, New York, Sonia
Gechtoff, Painting Survey at 55 Walker, 2022
David Richard Gallery, New York, Sonia Gechtoff, The 1960s In New York: A Series of
Transitions, 2021
David Richard Gallery, New York, Sonia Gechtoff, Forces of Nature on the Grand Stage:
Paintings from 1988 to 1995, 2019
Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, NY, Sonia Gechtoff: Drawings from the early 1960's, 2017
Nyehaus Gallery, NYC, Sonia Gechtoff, The Ferus Years, 2011.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, 1998
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, 1995
Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, NY, Sonia Gechtoff : four decades, 1956-1995, works on
paper, 1995
Kraushaar Galleries, New York,1992
University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, New York,1993, 1991
Kraushaar Galleries, New York,1990
Witkin Galleries, New York, 1989
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, "Works on Paper, 1975-1987 ", 1987
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1985
Witkin Galleries, New York, 1984
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1983
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1982
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1980
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1979
Gloria Cortella Gallery, New York, 1978
Gloria Cortella Gallery, New York, 1976
Gallery One, Montclair State College, New Jersey, 1974
East Hampton Gallery, NY 1966
East Hampton Gallery, NY, 1963
Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1960
Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1959
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1959
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sonia Gechtoff, Paintings and Drawings, (April 12 – May 9) 1957
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1957
Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1955
Labaudt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1952
Group Exhibitions:
Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, TX, Out of Thin Air, Emerging Forms, 2024
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, San Francisco the Golden Age1930-1960:
Making a Scene, 2024
Berry Campbell, New York, Perseverance, 2024
David Richard Gallery, New York, Geometric Shapes and Color: In Service to Form, Motion,
Pattern, Depiction, Memory, and Abstraction, 2023
National Academy of Design, New York, Drawing as Practice, 2023
David Richard Gallery, New York, Painting on the Edges of America Since the 1950s, Five Bay
Area Women Painters, 2023
Berry Campbell, New York, West Coast Women of Abstract Expressionism, 2023
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global
Abstraction, 1940-70, 2023
San Jose Museum of Art, CA, Break + Bleed, 2021
Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Dilexi Gallery: The Early Years, A Multi-Venue
Retrospective, 2019
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, Inspiration and Exploration, 2019
David Richard Gallery, New York, Hidden Figures: Abstract Expressionist Women Painters in
New York and California, 1950s and 1960s, Sonia Gechtoff, Nina Tryggvadottir, Beate
Wheeler and Anthe Zacharias, 2019
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, Collecting on the Edge-Part I, 2018
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, Focus on Abstract Gems: Small Paintings, Sculptures,
and Paper Pieces, 2018,
Palm Springs Art Museum, CA, Women of Abstract Expressionism, 2017
Berry Campbell, New York, Judith Godwin, 2017
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, A Non-Objective Couple, Sonia Gechtoff and James
Kelly, 2017
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, Women! Women! (of the 50s), 2016
Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, NY, American Women and Abstraction, 2016
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Women of Abstract Expressionism, 2016
Waterhouse & Dodd, New York, Post-War & Contemporary Artists, 2016
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY, Over 85 – Still Creating: Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Sonia
Gechtoff and Liz Whitney Quisgard, 2016
Denver Art Museum, Women of Abstract Expressionism, 2016
San Jose Museum of Art, CA, Momentum: An Experiment in the Unexpected, 2014
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, Annual 2014: Redefining
Tradition, 2014
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA, Renaissance on Fillmore, 1955-65, 2012
David Nolan Galleries, NYC, Bella Pacifica-Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, 2011
Nyehaus, NYC, Bella Pacifica-Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, 2011
San Jose Museum of Art, CA, A Culture of Spontaneity: San Francisco Abstract Expressionism,
From the Permanent Collection, 2008
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New Additions: Prints for An American Museum
Part II, 2004
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, Directions in American Abstraction: A New
Decade, 1994
The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, CA, Paper Trails: San Francisco Abstract Expressionist
Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, 1993
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 56th Annual National Midyear Exhibition,
1992
Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, NY, Out of Abstract Expressionism, 1990
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Virginia, 79th Annual Exhibition, 1990
871 Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Abstract Painting of the Fifties, 1989
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Paper Now, 1987
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, West Coast Abstract Expressionist Art, Selections from The
Menil Collection, 2006
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Selections - Works on Paper, 1987
Stamford Museum, Connecticut, (Organizer), American Art – American Women, 1985-1986
Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT, Cross Overs, 1985
Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis,
CA, Directions In Bay Area Painting: A Survey of Three Decades, 1940s-1960s, 1983
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. New Dimensions in Drawing, 1950-1980,
1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York, America Drawn and Matched, 1977
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Extraordinary Women, 1977
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC and San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Painting and Sculpture-Modern Era,
1976-1977
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, Last Time I Saw Ferus, 1976
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Biennial, 1975
New York Cultural Center, NY, Women Choose Women, 1973
University of Oklahoma and Philbrook Art Center, East Coast - West Coast Painting, 1968
National Exhibition, University of Texas, Austin, Drawing, 1966
Selected by Museum of Modern Art, New York, International Council, South America,
American Abstract Drawings and Watercolors, 1962
Sao Paolo, Brazil, VI Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, 1961
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 60 American Painters, 1960
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Young America, 1960
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual, 1958
American Section, Paris, France, 1st Paris Bienale, 1958
USA Pavilion, Brussels World Fair, 17 American Painters, 1958, traveled to U.S.I.S.
Gallery, London, England
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie International, 1958
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, Group Exhibition, 1958
Virginia Museum of Art, American Painting, 1958
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye, 1957
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Younger Americans, 1954
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Annual, 1952
Permanent Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
American Telephone & Telegraph, New York
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Crocker Art Museum, Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, Sacramento, California
Chase Manhattan Bank NA, New York
Chemical Bank, New York
Ciba Geigy Corporation, Ardsley, New York
Commerce Bancshares, Kansas City, Missouri
Continental Grain Company, New York
General Electric Company, Fairfield Connecticut
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Library of Congress, Charles Dean Collection, Washington, D.C.
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Museum of Art, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
National Academy Museum and School, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, California
Prudential Insurance Company of American, Newark, New Jersey
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, Washington
Singer Company Collection, New York
United States Department of State, Art Bank Program, Washington, D.C.
Stephens, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, Iowa
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Nebraska Art Museum, Sheldon, Nebraska
Worcester Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Education:
Philadelphia Museum School of Art, 1950
Awards:
Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award, 2013
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1989, 1994, 1998, 2002
Works on Paper, Mid-Atlantic Regional NEA Grant, 1988
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, 1987
Ford Foundation Fellowship to Tamarind Lithography, Los Angeles, 1963
Teaching Experience:
National Academy School of Fine Arts (now, National Academy of Art and Design), New York,
NY, 1993, 2000-2012
Painter in Residence, Adelphi University, New York, 1991, 1993
Visiting Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, 1989
Painter in Residence, Skidmore College, New York, 1988-1990, 1995
Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio School, Vermont, 1987
University of New Mexico, 1974-1975
Queens College, New York, 1970-1974
New York University, New York, NY, 1960-1970
California School of Fine Art, San Francisco, CA1957-1958