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 before earning her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. While at RISD, Sklaroff won the Providence Art Award and was selected for the European Honors Program, where she studied under Robert Kelly. Sklaroff later received her MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York City where she studied under Faith Ringgold and Glenn Goldberg. While a student at Parsons, Sklaroff received a grant 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.