Sorel Etrog

Renowned Canadian sculptor and painter Sorel Etrog was born in 1933, leaving his native Romania for Israel in 1950 where he studied at the Tel Aviv Art Institute. His first solo exhibition was in Tel Aviv in 1958, after which he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. In 1959, he had his first Canadian solo exhibition at Gallery Moos in Toronto. Leaving New York for Toronto in 1963, Etrog became a Canadian Citizen and in 1966 represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.

Since the late 1950s until the present, Sorel Etrog’s work has been exhibited extensively in one-person exhibitions in Canada and internationally including Gallery Moos, Toronto; the Dominion Gallery, Montreal; Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto; Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto; Marlborough Godard Gallery, Toronto; Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver; Rose Fried Gallery, New York; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; Marlborough Gallery, New York; Valley House Gallery, Dallas; Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach; Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Schneider Gallery, Rome; Springer Gallery, Berlin; Hanover Gallery, London; Naviglio Gallery, Milan; Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris; and the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre; Musée Rodin, Paris; Kuntsmuseum, Basel; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, amongst others.

Etrog’s work is represented in the major capitals of the world and is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York; the University of California, Los Angeles; Kunstmuseum, Basel; Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Holland; Musée d’Arte Moderne, Paris; Museo Internazionale d’Arte Contemporano, Florence; the Tate Gallery, London, amongst many others. Etrog has received several important commissions, including those for Expo ‘67, Montreal; SunLife Centre, Toronto; Windsor Sculpture Garden, Windsor, Ontario; Los Angeles County Museum, and Olympic Park in Seoul, Korea. He designed the Canadian Film Award in 1968, originally called the “Etrog,” later renamed the “Genie.”

Sorel Etrog was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1994 and was
made a Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the Government of France in 1996.

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