SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sonja Sekula: Works from 1943 - 1963, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Sonja Sekula, Galerie Knoell, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Sonja Sekula: A Survey, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Sonja Sekula & Friends, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
2016 Sonja Sekula, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie HILT, Basel, Switzerland
2004 Sonja Sekula. 8.4.1918 Luzern bis 25.4.1963 Zürich, Galerie HILT, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Sonja Sekula (1918-1963), Ölgemälde, Gouache, Collagen, Scratch, Galerie HILT, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Sonja Sekula (1918-1963). Candle in the Wind, Galerie HILT, Basel, Switzerland
Sonja Sekula 1918-1963. Malerei. USA – Die Jahre danach, Galerie Claudine Hohl, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 Sonja Sekula USA / CH (1918-1963), Galerie HILT, Basel, Switzerland
1996 Sonja Sekula, Von New York nach Zürich 1943-1963, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland / Sonja
Sekula (1918-1963): A Retrospective, Swiss Institute, New York, NY (catalogue)
1995 Sonja Sekula, Galerie Zodiaque Perroy, Switzerland
1992 Sonja Sekula 1918-1963, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland
Sonja Sekula, Galerie Zodiaque, Perroy, Switzerland
1989 Sonja Sekula, Galerie Zodiaque, Perroy, Switzerland
1987 Sonja Sekula 1918-1963. Zum Andenken, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland
1984 Sonja Sekula (1919[sic]-1963). Peintures, gouaches et collages, Galerie Zodiaque, Perroy, Switzerland
Sonja Sekula. Peintures-Gouaches-Dessins-Collages, Focus Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
1978 Sonja Sekula, (1919[sic]-1963). Peintures, gouaches et collages, Galerie Zodiaque, Perroy, Switzerland
1977 Sonja Sekula, Oeuvres, Galerie Saint-Antoine, Genève, Switzerland
1976 Sonja Sekula. Gemälde + Zeichnungen, Galerie zur Matze, Brig, Switzerland
Sonja Sekula (1919[sic]-1963). Peintures, gouaches et collages, Galerie Zodiaque, Perroy, Switzerland
1975 Sonja Sekula, Galerie Cinq, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sonja Sekula 1918-1963, Galerie Orell Füssli, Zurich, Switzerland
1973 Sonja Sekula, Swiss Bank Association, Hottingen branch, Zurich, Switzerland
Sonja Sekula. Peintures, collages, dessins, Galerie Jeanne Wiebenga, Epalinges, Switzerland (catalogue)
1971 Sonja Sekula. Paintings, Drawings and Poetry, Contemporary Wing, Finch College Museum of Art, New York,
NY (catalogue)
1969 Joachim Breustedt / Sonja Sekula, Galerie Jeanne Wiebenga, Epalinges, Switzerland
1967 Sonja Sekula 1918-1963, Galerie d’art modern Jeanne Wiebenga, Epalinges, Switzerland
1966 Arend Fuhrmann / Jenny Losinger-Ferry / Sonja Sekula, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Helmhaus, Zurich,
Switzerland (catalogue)
1964 Sonja Sekula (1918 – 1963), Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
1962 Galería Fortuny, Madrid, Spain
1961 Sonja Sekula. Collages, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland
1960 Sonja Sekula, Galerie L’Entracte, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sonja Sekula, Malerei / Trudi Demut. Plastic, Galerie 58, Rapperswil, Switzerland
1959 Sonja Sekula, Zurich / Duncan, Paris, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland
1958 Sekula. Quince años de pinturas 1943-1958, Galeria Don Hatch, Caracas, Venezuela (catalogue)
1957 Sonja Sekula, Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
1955 Paintings and Drawings by Sonja Sekula, Boylston Street Print Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1952 Sonja Sekula, Paintings & Scratchboards, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1951 Sonja Sekula, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1950 Sonja Sekula, Bookshop Gallery, The London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1949 Sekula. Drawings – Gouaches, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1948 Sonja Sekula, Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1946 Sonja Sekula. First Exhibition of Painting, Art of this Century Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776–
1976, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Action / Gesture / Paint: a global story of women and abstraction 1940-70, Whitechapel Gallery, London from
February 7 – May 9, 2023; touring to Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, June 4 – October 22, 2023;
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, December 2, 2023 – March 3, 2024
2022 We Fancy, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
Brosseau Center for Learning: Mining the Gap, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning,
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2021 A Future We Begin to Feel: Women Artists 1921-1971, Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY (catalogue)
Women of Abstraction: Artists on Eastern Long Island 1960-2020, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
2020 Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2019 Collection 1940s - 1970s: Out of War, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sparkling Amazons: Abstract Expressionist Women of the 9th St. Show, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
(catalogue)
Surrealism Switzerland, Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana Lugano, curated by Tobia Bezzola and Francesca Benini,
Lugano, Italy
2018 Carnival of the Animals: From the Kunstmuseum Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Surrealism Switzerland, Aargauer Kunsthaus, curated by Peter Fischer and Julia Schallberger, Aarau, Switzerland
(catalogue)
2017 NO EXIT, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Seachange: Contemporary Highlights, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Sonja Sekula, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock & Friends, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
2015 Seachange: Abstraction in Norman Lewis’ Time, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Forms of Thought, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2011 Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Post-War American Art: The Novak/O’Doherty Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Dunkelschwestern, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2007 Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
1996 The Surrealists and Their Friends on Eastern Long Island at Mid-Century, Guild Hall Museum,
Easthampton, NY (catalogue)
1995 Neun Räume-einige Fenster: Der Erweterungsbau – Die Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland (catalogue)
1994 Projekt Sammlung: Meisterwerke des 16. Bis 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseums
Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
1993 Dimension Schweiz 1915-1993: Von der frühen Moderne zur Kunst der Gegenwart, Museion, Museum für Moderne
Kunst, Bolzano (catalogue)
1990 Contrasts, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland
1989 Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions. An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in
America, 1940-1965, toured: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Terra Museum of American
Art, Chicago, IL (1990); The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (1990) (catalogue)
1988 30 Jahre Konkrete Kunst, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
1987 Angelica, Anna und andere Schwestern von gestern, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
1978 Banken förden Kunst, Städtische Galerie zum Strauhof, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
1976 30th Anniversary Show, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Artistes suisses, Manoir de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland (catalogue)
1969 Hommage à Helen Dahm, Karl Ballmer, Charles Rollier, Sonja Sekula, Emanuel Jacob, Galerie Palette,
Zurich, Switzerland
1966 Arend Fuhrmann, Jenny Losinger-Ferri, Sonja Sekula, Stadthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
1961 Der Surrealismus und verwandte Strömungen in der Schweiz, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun,
Switzerland (catalogue)
Zürcher Künstler in Helmhaus und Stadthaus, Helmhaus und Stadthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
GSMBuk: Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Malerinnen, Bildhauerinnen und Kunstgeweblerinnen, Sektion
Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)
1960 Contrastes II, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Zürcher Künstler im Helmhaus und Stadthaus, Helmhaus und Stadthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
1959 Zürcher Konkrete Kunst, Galerei Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Contrasts, Galerie Suzanne Bolag, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Zürcher Künstler im Helmhaus und Stadthaus, Helmhaus und Stadthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Weinachtsausstellung, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland
1958 22.Ausstellung der Gesellschaft schweizerischer Malerinnen, Bildhauerinnen und Kunstgewerblerinnen, in the framework
of Saffa. 2. Ausstellung: Die Schweizer Frau, hr Leben, ihr Arbeit, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Collages, Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland
1957 Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Dezember-Ausstellung, Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
1955 Ten Years, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1954 Summer Exhibition, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Le dessin contemporain aux Etats-Unis (organized by The Art Institute of Chicago), Pavillon Vendôme,
Aix-en-Provence, France (catalogue)
Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Sales and Rental Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Group show: Drawing, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1953 International Watercolor Exhibition: Seventeenth Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
1952 University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, College of Fine and Applied Arts,
Urbana, IL (catalogue)
The Artists’ Exchange Gallery, Santa Fe, CA
Contemporary Drawings From 12 Countries: 1945-1952, The Art Institute of Chicago. Toured The Toledo Museum
of Art; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum; Colorado
Springs Fine Arts Center; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville. (catalogue)
Thirty U.S. Contemporaries: Paintings, San Francisco Museum of Art
An Exhibition of Contemporary Religious Art and Architecture, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY
1951 International Watercolor Exhibition: Sixteenth Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
9th Street: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, New York, NY
1950 Accrochage, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
Young American Artists, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY (catalogue)
1949 Fifty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Nebraska Art Association, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
International Watercolor Exhibition: Fifteenth Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
1948 Watercolors From the 27th Annual Exhibition of the California Watercolor Society, Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, CA
Survey of Season, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paolo, Brazil
1947 Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme. Le Surréalisme en 1947, presented by André Breton and Marcel
Duchamp, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (catalogue)
1945 The Women, Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century Gallery, New York, NY
1943 Spring Salon for Young Artists, Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibition by 31 Women, Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED LITERATURE
2021 “A Future We Begin to Feel: Women Artists 1921-1971,” Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY (cat.)
Anger, Jenny. “Sonja Sekula and ‘Art of the Mentally Ill,’” American Art – Smithsonian Institution, Spring 2021
2020 Gibson, Eric. “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury’ Review: Sketching a Path Into a New Era,” Wall Street Journal,
December 5
Heins, Marjorie. “The Two Sonias: Sekula, Gechtoff, and the Vagaries of Fame,”
2019 Dobrzynski, Judith. “An Expanded MoMA Adds More Women Artists,” Wall Street Journal, October 10
Keane, Tim. “Positively Ninth Street Women,” Hyperallergic, November 30
“Overdue Recognition for Abstract Expressionist and Alumna Sonja Sekula,” Sarah Lawrence College, October 3
Sparkling Amazons: Abstract Expressionist Women of the 9th St. Show, The Katonah Museum of Art, New York (cat.)
2017 Smith, Roberta. “Gallery Guide: Sonja Sekula,” The New York Times, C26, April 28
Yau, John. “Sonja Sekula’s Time May Have Finally Come,” Hyperallergic, April 29
NO EXIT, Peter Blum Edition, New York, NY (cat.)
2016 Sonja Sekula & Friends, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (cat.)
2011 Sonja Sekula: Grace in a cow's EYE: a memoir, Black Radish Books, Lafayette, LA (cat.)
2008 Dunkelschwestern Annemarie Von Matt - Sonja Sekula, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)
1996 Sonja Sekula: 1918-1963, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (cat.)
1995 Kunstverein Wintertur: 75. Jahresbericht 1995. Winterthur: Kunstverein Winterthur, P. 10, 36, 40-42. (cat.)
1992 Perret, Roger “Auf Bedeutungsjagd, auf Bedeutungsflucht, Die Wortund Farbkünstlerin Sonja Sekula,”
Affenschaukel 16 (1992), P. 14-15.
1987 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen: Katalog der Sammlung. Gemälde, Pastelle, Glasbilder, Textile Werke, Skultpuren, Objekte. St.
Gallen: Kunstverein St. Gallen, P. 329. (cat.)
1984 The Brooklyn Museum: American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages. A Complete Illustrated Listing of Works in the Museum’s
Collection. St. Gallen: Kunstverein St. Gallen, P. 329. (cat.)
1983 Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts von Cuno Amiet bis heute. Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland, P. 419. (cat.)
Kunstmuseum Luzern: Sammlungscatalog der Gemülde. Luzern: Kunstmuseum Luzern, P. 277. (cat.)
1971 Foote, Nancy. “Who was Sonia Sekula?”Art in America, October, pg. 73-80
1966 Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft: Jahresbericht 1961. Zurich: Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, , P. 7. (cat.)
1961 Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft: Jahresbericht 1966. Zurich: Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, P. 7, 8, 57. (cat.)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Grinnell College Art Collection, Grinnell, IA
Spencer Museum of Art, Univeristy of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Women’s Art Collection, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom