Edgar Soberón

Who is Edgar Soberón?

Édgar Soberón is a Cuban-born American painter and printmaker.

Soberón studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he later taught Drawing and Printmaking with the Foundation and Fine Arts Departments from 1992 through 2002. In 1996 he was awarded the prestigious Teaching Excellence Award by the New School University and Parsons School of Design.

Soberón's work has been in numerous exhibitions, including two important Still Life Survey Exhibitions: Silent Thing Secret Things, Still Life Painting from Rembrandt to the Milleneum, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1999-2000 and Reflections of Time and Place: Latin American Still Life in the 20th Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York and El Museo del Barrio, New York, N.Y. In the Fall of 2009, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama presented the exhibition, a solo exhibition of paintings and prints which highlights Soberón's still life work over the last ten years.

Soberón's work can be found in the Permanent Collection of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC, The Hechinger Collection, Washington DC, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art,Rutgers Archives for Printmaking, New Brunschwig, N.J, The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, New York, N.Y.