Edra Soto

Edra Soto is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in Chicago. Her work has been featured in prominent institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ICA San Diego, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the Joyce Foundation Award, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the 3Arts Next Level Fellowship, the inaugural Foundwork Prize, the Ree Kaneko Award, and a fellowship from the US LatinX Art Forum.

Soto has participated in international exhibitions and exchanges, traveling to Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Cuba through the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. Her residency experience includes programs at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Florida, Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Row Houses in Houston, and Art Omi in New York, among others.

Recent projects include her participation in the Chicago Architecture Biennial, a major commission for the expansion of O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5, and GRAFT, a large-scale installation commissioned by Public Art Fund for Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park. Soto earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño in San Juan, Puerto Rico.