Hunt Slonem: Magical World: Works from the Mark Rothko Art Center and G. Elias Jelgava Museum, Latvia, 2020

Serge Sorokko Gallery is pleased to present Hunt Slonem: Magical World, an exhibition of recent paintings by internationally renowned artist Hunt Slonem. This remarkable collection consists of works that in the summer and fall of 2020 were exhibited in Latvia at the Mark Rothko Art Center and the G. Elias Jelgava Museum of Art and History. Both critically acclaimed exhibitions received wide media attention. "You only need to see and hear to understand: Hunt Slonem's paintings have a sound," observes Professor Aleksejs Naumovs, President Emeritus of the Latvian Academy of Art, in his essay for the exhibition catalog.

Over seventy museums internationally include Hunt Slonem's paintings in their collections, among them the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Guggenheim Museum of Art, all in New York.

Hunt Slonem's paintings have been exhibited in many important museums, both in the United States and in Europe. Most recently, ambitious installations have been presented by such major museums as the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (2015); the State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia (2017); the National Picture Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine (2019); the Odessa Museum of Eastern and Western Art, Odessa, Ukraine (2019), and the Mark Rothko Art Center and the G. Elias Jelgava Museum of Art and History, both in Latvia (2020).

Hunt Slonem lives and works in New York.