 Retrospectives of his work have since been held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2000), the Centre Pompidou (2002), the Austrian Filmmuseum (2005), the Harvard Film Archive (2008), the Tate Modern (2013), and the Belgian Cinematek (2015).It is not known when Sonbert first learned that he was HIV-positive.He died of complications from AIDS at his home in San Francisco in 1995.