Edgar Soberón was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba in
1962. He studied at Parsons School of Design in New York where he
received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1987. He was awarded a
Brunschwig and Fils Scholarship to study abroad at Parsons and the
American College in Paris, France in 1986. Since then his work has
been published, collected and exhibited nationally and
internationally.
Soberón had his first solo show in 1998 at the Associated American Artists gallery in New York City. He has participated in numerous exhibitions since, including two important still life survey exhibitions: Silent Things Secret Things, Still Life from Rembrandt to the Milleneum, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Reflections of Time and Place, Latin American Still Life in The 20th Century, Katonah Museum Of Art, Katonah, N.Y. and El Barrio Museum, New York, N.Y.
More recently, Soberón's prints were on display at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art, New Brunswick, N.J. as part of an exhibit entitled Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios. In 2004, his work became part of the Permanent Collection at the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC. Soberón's work is currently exhibited at ArtSpace / Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables, Miami, Florida.
Soberón joined the faculty at Parsons School of Design in 1992 where he taught Drawing Fundamentals and Printmaking with the Foundation and Fine Arts programs until 2002. In 1996 the New School University and Parsons School of Design recognized him with the distinguished Teaching Excellence Award for his outstanding contributions in art education.
In 2002, after a year on sabbatical from his post at Parsons, Soberón decided to relocate his studio to Central Mexico. He presently lives and works in the town of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.