| Sasson Soffer attended Brooklyn College and
studied with Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, and other Abstract Expressionist
painters. As a painter, Soffer has twice exhibited at the Whitney Biennial,
twice at the Carnegie International, and has had solo shows at the Portland
Museum of Art in Maine, the Corpus Christ Museum of Art, the Indianapolis
Museum, and others. His work is represented in the permanent collection of the
Whitney Museum, the Albright Knox Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and
other public and private collections. He is also known as a sculptor, who
exhibited his sculptures in various public spaces throughout the United States,
including the Whitney Museum, Battery Park, and in front of Lincoln Center. A
stainless steel sculpture titled X will be installed in the summer of 2003 at
Xi'an University, in Xi'an, China. The size of the stainless steel sculpture is
21' x 13' x 10'. |