Background
She was born in Lucerne on 8 April 1918 to a Swiss mother, Berta Huguenin (1896–1980), and a Hungarian father, Béla Sekula (1881–1966), a philatelist.
She was born in Lucerne on 8 April 1918 to a Swiss mother, Berta Huguenin (1896–1980), and a Hungarian father, Béla Sekula (1881–1966), a philatelist.
She attended Sarah Lawrence College.
She lived in America from 1936 to 1955. She met the surrealists in exile in New York during 1942. On 25 April 1963 she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich after many years of mental health issues.
She is buried in Saint Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.
1943 - Group show 31 Women Artists, Art of this Century Gallery, New York
1948 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1953 - Group Show "Nine Women Painters", Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1957 - Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland
1996 - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1 June - 11 August)
1996 - Sonja Sekula (1918–1963): A Retrospective, Swiss Institute, New York, United States of America (12 September - 26 October).