Sorel Etrog

Renowned sculptor, painter, writer and philosopher Sorel Etrog was born in 1933 in Iasi, Romania. In 1950 he left his native Romania for Israel 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.