Sofía Ímber

Her sister was Lya Imber, the first woman to receive a medical degree in Venezuela. Imber has three daughters Sara, Adriana, Daniela Meneses Imber and a son, Pedro Guillermo, who died in 2014.

Ímber donated her personal book collection to the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in June 2014. It contains approximately fourteen thousand entries.

In 2014, the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA) awarded Imber the Paez Medal of Art 2014 for her work as an advocate for art throughout Latin America.

Gallery owner Genaro Ambrosino noticed the forgery and made inquiries in Miami. FBI undercover agents recovered the stolen painting on July 17, 2012 from a hotel room. According to Marianela Balbi's account, the work disappeared during a time of "institutional instability".

The Universidad Católica Andrés Bello named one of its research areas as "Sala de Investigación Sofía Imber y Carlos Rangel", as well as naming its journalism faculty after her. Arlette Machado published Mil Sofía in 2012, an edited book interview.

She created the TV political talk show titled Buenos días, airing on Venevisión. She produced and conducted Sólo con Sofía and La Venezuela Posible, a radio show. She held positions within El Nacional, El Universal, Últimas Noticias and Diario 2001. She published a collection of her articles in 1971, titled Yo la intransigente (I, the Intransigent One).

Imber founded the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas in 1973, which possesses about four thousand pieces, the largest contemporary art collection in Latin America.

Imber married writer Guillermo Meneses in 1944, subsequently giving birth to Sara, Adriana, Daniela and Pedro Guillermo. As a member of Marcos Pérez Jiménez's diplomatic corps, both travelled to Europe. While stationed in Paris and Brussels, the couple made acquaintances with leftist intellectuals and Venezuelan expatriate artists grouped as "the dissidents", which included figures such as Alejandro Otero. Upon returning to Venezuela, she filed for divorce and married liberal thinker Carlos Rangel.

During the 1940s, Imber attended the Universidad de los Andes, studying medicine for three years, after which she returned to Caracas. In Caracas she published articles in several papers and Venezuelan magazines, as well as in México, Colombia and Argentina.

Sofía Ímber (8 May 1924 – 20 February 2017) was a Romanian-born Venezuelan journalist and supporter of the arts. She was the founder of the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas [es].

She was born in Soroca, Kingdom of Romania (now Moldova) in 1924 to Jewish parents Naum Ímber and Ana Barú. She moved to Venezuela with her family when she was four years old, in 1928. Imber married Venezuelan journalist and diplomat Guillermo Meneses.