11 Facts About Serge Sorokko

Serge Sorokko was born on 26 April 1954 and is an American art dealer, publisher and owner of the Serge Sorokko Gallery in San Francisco.

Serge Sorokko played a major role in establishing the first cultural exchanges in the field of visual arts between the United States and the Soviet Union during the period of perestroika.

Serge Sorokko turned a lifelong interest in art into eponymous fine art galleries selling the work of contemporary artists.

Serge Sorokko was born in Riga, Latvia, then part of the Soviet Union.

Serge Sorokko's mother was a lawyer and father an architect and art collector, recognized for designing, in the 1960s and 1970s, some of Riga's most prominent public buildings.

Shortly after his arrival in the US in 1979, Serge Sorokko began work as an art consultant for a San Francisco contemporary art gallery.

Together with Salakhov, Serge Sorokko has been directly involved with bringing art exhibitions to museum venues in Russia and, in exchange, showing established, but never before seen in the West, Russian artists in his galleries in the US.

In 1989, Serge Sorokko was sought out by the Soviet Union's Ministry of Culture, to become its intermediary to the New York art scene, for the first ever exhibition of paintings of contemporary New York artists in Moscow, at the Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall.

In 2010, Serge Sorokko Gallery moved from its location on Grant Avenue to a much larger ground floor space at 55 Geary Street, on Union Square in San Francisco.

In 2008, Serge Sorokko unveiled the BAM Photography Portfolio III, which showcased original works by twelve contemporary artists.

Also in 2008, Serge Sorokko published 10 Iris Prints, a portfolio of photographs by the American fashion designer turned photographer James Galanos.