EDRA SOTO

ABOUT

Puerto Rican-born, Edra Soto is an interdisciplinary artist and co-director of the outdoor project space The Franklin. Her recent projects, which are motivated by civic and social actions, prompt viewers to reconsider cross-cultural dynamics, the legacy of colonialism, and personal responsibility. Recent venues presenting Soto’s work include Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's satellite, The Momentary (Arkansas); Albright-Knox Northland (New York); Chicago Cultural Center (Illinois); Smart Museum (Illinois); the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Illinois) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, (Illinois). In 2019, Soto completed the public art commission titled Screenhouse on view at the Millennium Park, Boeing Gallery North through April 2022. Soto has attended residency programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (Florida), Beta-Local (Puerto Rico), Headlands Center for the Arts, (California), Project Row Houses (Texas) and Art Omi (New York) among others. Soto was awarded the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship in 2016, the Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship in 2019, the inaugural Foundwork Artist Prize in 2019 and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Grant in 2020 among others. Between 2019-2020 Soto’s work was included in three exhibitions supported by the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund: Repatriation at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Cross Currents at the Smart Museum in Chicago, and Close to There in Salvador, Brazil. Soto is a lecturer for the Contemporary Practices Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from which she received an MFA. She holds a BFA degree from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico

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Dos Cuerpos 7, 2022
Latex paint and mixed mediums over paper
35 x 23 in.

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Dos Cuerpos 3, 2022
Latex paint and mixed mediums over paper
30 x 22 in.

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Dos Cuerpos 4, 2022
Latex paint and mixed mediums over paper
35 x 23 in

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Dos Cuerpos 4, 2022
Latex paint and mixed mediums over paper
35 x 23 in

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Dos Cuerpos 6, 2022
Latex paint and mixed mediums over paper
30 x 22 in.

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