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, focus on fostering relationships with a wide range of communities. Recent venues presenting Soto’s work include Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's satellite, The Momentary (Arkansas); Albright-Knox Northland (New York); El Museo del Barrio (New York); Smart Museum (Illinois); and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Illinois). In 2019, Soto was commissioned to create the immersive public piece titled Screenhouse, currently at Chicago's Millennium Park. Soto has attended residency programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine), Beta-Local (Puerto Rico), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (Florida), Headlands Center for the Arts (California), Project Row Houses (Houston) and Art Omi (New York) among others. Soto was awarded the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, the Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship, the inaugural Foundwork Artist Prize and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant among others. Between 2019 - 2020 Soto exhibited and traveled to Brazil, Puerto Rico and Cuba as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. Soto holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico.
This is a public presentation.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, February 16, 5:00pmat FORUM ROOM 1515
KRESGE HALL
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL, 60208
