The MFA Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to have Edra Soto join its Visiting Artist Lecture Series for Spring 2023. Join us via Zoom for this special artist presentation, followed by Q&A on Thursday, April 27th, 11:00 a.m. via Zoom.
Edra Soto is a Puerto Rican-born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the outdoor project space, The Franklin. Soto has exhibited extensively at venues including El Museo del Barrio, NY; The Momentary, AK; Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, IL; The Arts Club of Chicago, IL; the Abrons Arts Center, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art; NY. Soto's large-scale public art commission titled Screenhouse is currently on view at Chicago’s Millennium Park. The artist has attended residency programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME; Beta-Local, PR; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, FL; Headlands Center for the Arts, NY; Project Row Houses, TX; and Art Omi, NY, among others. Soto has been 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. The artist lives and works in Chicago.
Join the lecture via Zoom on April 27th, 11:00 a.m.
Image: Casa-Isla, 2022, Chicago Botanic Garden, IL. photo credit: James Prinz
