Sonia Gechtoff

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, 56^th 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, 79^th 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