Sonia Sekula

Sonia Sekula (18 April 1918 – 25 April 1963) (also known as Sonja Sekula) was a Swiss-born artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement.

She was born in Lucerne on 8 April 1918 to a Swiss mother, Berta Huguenin (1896–1980), and a Hungarian father, Béla Sekula (1881–1966), a philatelist.

She lived in America from 1936 to 1955.

She attended Sarah Lawrence College.

She met the surrealists in exile in New York during 1942.^[1]

On 25 April 1963 she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich after many years of mental health issues.^[2]

She is buried in St. Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.^[3]

Exhibitions

• 1943 - Group show 31 Women Artists, Art of this Century Gallery, New York
• 1948 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
• 1953 - Group Show "Nine Women Painters", Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
• 1957 - Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
• 1996 - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1 June - 11 August)
• 1996 - Sonja Sekula (1918–1963): A Retrospective, Swiss Institute, New York, USA (12 September - 26 October) ^[4]

Bibliography

• Womb - poem and drawing - VVV, March 1943
• Who was Sonia Sekula?, Art in America, October 1971 ^[5]
• A Golden Girl Escaping Into Infinity, New York Times, 20 September 1996^[6]
• Dunkelschwestern - Annemarie von Matt und Sonja Sekula, by Roger Perret and Roman Kurzmeyer, 2008
• Sekula, Sonja in the SIKART dictionary and database

References

1. "Sonja Sekula - Time Line". www.sonja-sekula.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
2. http://www.glbtq.com/arts/sekula_s,4.html
3. "Sonja Sekula - Time Line". www.sonja-sekula.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
4. Glueck, Grace (1996-09-20). "A Golden Girl Escaping Into Infinity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
5. "Art in America". www.sonja-sekula.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
6. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/20/arts/a-golden-girl-escaping-into-infinity.html?pagewanted=1