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Sergio Soave

Chair, Professor, Department of Art

Areas of Expertise
• Printmaking
• Etching

Soave comes to Ohio State from West Virginia University (WVU), where he was professor of printmaking and served as chair of the Division of Art since 1997. He joined the faculty of WVU in 1988; previously, he taught at St. Clair College and the University of Windsor, both in Ontario.

As a professional artist, he has exhibited extensively. His computer works, lithographs, etchings and silkscreen prints have been included in more than 120 regional, national and international exhibitions in the past decade. His most recent solo show was Carnivale at the Diego Rivera Museum of Art in Guanajuato, Mexico. His work is included in public collections at the Butler Museum of American Art, the University of Windsor, the Print Consortium, The Royal Museum of Antwerpen, Ohio University Art Collection, Bradley University, West Virginia University and others.

Soave’s work is represented in E.C. Cunningham’s book on contemporary printmaking, Printmaking: A Primary Form of Expression and in Contemporary American Printmaking, published by Jilin Fine Arts Publishing. Grants and fellowships include a Radiological Consultants Summer Fellowship, Canada Council Explorations Grant, West Virginia Artist Fellowship and three West Virginia University Senate Research Grants. He has been an Artist in Residence at the Frans Masereel Studio in Belgium, the University of Georgia’s Cortona Program, the Peacock Printmaker’s Workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, and the Snowshoe Institute in West Virginia.

Education
• MFA, West Virginia University, printmaking
• BFA, University of Windsor