Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin’s first solo art show is “Tell Her Side Of The Story.”: Anna Sorokin, whose impersonation of a rich German heiress inspired the enormously successful Netflix series “Inventing Anna” and put her in jail, will have her first solo art exhibition next month, using works she made while imprisoned, according to her art dealer and show organizer.

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During jury deliberations in her New York State trial, Anna Sorokin speaks with a court official.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

According to Chris Martine, who is overseeing Sorokin’s art sales while she is detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, between 15 and 20 pieces by the artist will likely be offered for $10,000 apiece during an April gallery display in New York.

Sorokin’s artwork will show moments from her life over the last several years—both before and during her incarceration—and will offer spectators a window into “her side of the tale,” according to Martine, who says the art on her Instagram account is a good indicator of her style.

Because other art materials he sought to send to Sorokin were prohibited by prison authorities, Martine characterized the works as a mix of “fashion drawings and sarcastic cartoons” done only in pencil and ink on 9-by-12-inch watercolor paper.

Martine told Forbes that Sorokin has been “extremely active” in the development of her first solo performance, despite the fact that she is still jailed, and that she is looking forward to delivering her own tale “not twisted through someone else’s perspective.”

Sorokin is finishing up the last pieces of the collection this week and that the show’s opening date and venue would be determined after she’s finished, but he added that there has already been interesting from potential purchasers.

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WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR

Sorokin’s paintings are on display again. Martine told Forbes that Sorokin has said that she wants her work to be available to her “lovers and admirers” all over the globe and that she and her team intend to sell limited-edition reproductions of some of the exhibition’s pieces after the event, at a more reasonable price. Martine also said that plans are in the works to bring the exhibition to other major art markets, such as Miami, Los Angeles, London, and Paris.

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The solo exhibition comes after the popularity of the “Free Anna Delvey” pop-up show in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which included artists’ interpretations of Sorokin with five pieces she did while jailed. Alfredo Martinez, a New York artist and curator who served almost two years in jail for wire fraud after selling fake paintings he claimed were by Jean-Michel Basquiat, arranged the exhibition. Martinez told The Art Newspaper earlier this month that he hoped the exhibition would encourage officials to release Sorokin from ICE custody and cease “handling her like Hannibal Lecter.” Sorokin was “using these guys in the male-dominated art industry… and striving to push forward,” according to Rina Oh, one of the show’s participants. It’s extremely New York of you to do it.” According to The Art Newspaper, Martinez stated that in the art world, “a lot of individuals, particularly women, feel that the only way to move forward is to cheat.”

TANGENT

Sorokin, who pretended to be a rich socialite with a $67 million trust fund for years under the name “Anna Delvey,” was found guilty in 2019 of defrauding more than $200,000 from acquaintances in New York’s high society, luxury hotels, fine restaurants, a private aircraft operator, and banks. She pled not guilty and denied being a con artist during an interview on the famous podcast Call Her Daddy last week, but subsequently added that she “never said any foolish falsehoods.” Unless, say, they were a bank.” She later admitted that what she did was bad, but said that “so many people are doing worse things.” Sorokin initially came to prominence in 2018, when a New York Magazine piece about her went viral. According to Netflix, the essay was eventually transformed into the Shonda Rhimes-produced series Inventing Anna, which was the most-watched English-language series in a single week last month.

IMPORTANT BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Sorokin was freed from jail last year, but she is still being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly overstaying her visa. Rumors circulated earlier this month that she was being deported to Germany, but an ICE spokesman told Forbes that she is still being held in jail awaiting the acceptance of an emergency stay request submitted in November. Sorokin was born in Russia but moved to Germany with her family when she was 16 years old. Page Six was the first to report about her solo art display.