Occupation: Painter, Draftsperseon Media: Acrylic, Oil, Graphite. Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1926.
Education Philadelphia Mus Coll Art, BFA, 50. Ford Found Fellow, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 63. study, CSFA Lithography Studio, 52-53.
Teaching Positions Instr, California Sch Fine Art, San Francisco, 56-58; lectr art, Queens Coll, 70-74; associate professor art, Univ New Mexico, 74-75; artist-in-residence, Skidmore Coll, New York, 88-90 & 95; vis artist, Art Institute of Chicago, 89; artist-in-residence, Adelphi Univ, New York, 91 & 93; master drawing, Nat Acad Sch Art, New York, 2000-2003, master painting, 2003-2007, & 2009.
Public Works Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art & Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Menil Collection, Houston.
Exhibitions California Painting: Mod Era, San Francisco Mus of Art, 76; Drawing Acquisition Shows, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 77 & Extraordinary Women & America Drawn & Matched, 76-77; Solo exhibs, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 79-80, 82-83, 85 & 87 & Kraushaar Gallery, New York, 90, 92, 95 & 98; New Dimensions in Drawing, 50-80, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, 81; America Women-Am Art, Stamford Mus, Connecticut, 85; Art on Paper: Weatherspoon Guild, NC, 87; 56th Nat Midyear Exhib, Butler Inst Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 92; Paper Trails, Art Museum Santa Cruz, California, 93; San Francisco Sch Abstr Expressionists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 96; Poindexter Collection, Denver Art Museum, 98-99; Stamp of Impulse - Abstract Expressionist Prints, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 2001; The Most Difficult Journey, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, 2002; Expressive Impressions: 3 Decades of America Abstract Prints, Cummer Mus Art, Jacksonville, Florida, 2003; West Coast Abstract Expressionist Art, Menil Collection, Houston, 2006; Abstract Expressionist Prints, Pollock-Krasner House, New York, 2006; The Abstract Impulse, National Academy of Design Mus Art, New York, 2007; Then and Now (Hudson River painting), Pelham Art Center, New York, 5-6/2008.
Bibliography James Mellow (author), Sonia Gechtoff: A different kind of knowledge, Arts Mag, 2/82; Michael Brenson (author), Sonia Gechtoff's New Direction, New York Times, 11/25/83; John Loughery (author), Sonia Gechtoff: The Theatre of the Visible Kraushaar Galleries Catalogue, 5/92 & Sonia Gechtoff: 4 Decades Works on Paper, Skidmore Coll (catalog), 95; American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey, New York Sch Press, 2003; 100 New York Painters, Schiffer Press, 2006.
Honors and Awards Mid-Atlantic National Endowment of the Arts Grant, 88; Pollock-Krasner Found Grant, 94, 98, & 2002; Richard Florsheim Art Fund, 95; Charles Eliot Norton award in graphics, National Academy of Design Mus Art, 2001.
