Sonya Sklaroff

Sonya Sklaroff (born November 7, 1970) is a contemporary American painter best known for her cityscapes of New York City.

Born in Philadelphia, Sklaroff attended Friends' Central School previously earning her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. While at RISD, Sklaroff won the Providence Art Award and was chosen for the European Honors Program, where she studied below Robert Kelly. Sklaroff later standard her MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York City where she studied below Faith Ringgold and Glenn Goldberg. While a student at Parsons, Sklaroff acknowledged a assent from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the World Views program, which provided her an artist's studio on the 91st floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center.