Edra Soto | |
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| Born | Edra Soto 1971 (age 52–53) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico [BFA]; School of the Art Institute of Chicago [MFA] |
Edra Soto (born 1971, Puerto Rico) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the artist-run outdoor project space The Franklin.
Edra Soto was born in Puerto Rico in 1971. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico in 1994. After moving to Chicago, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. She has received several awards, including the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2016) [1] and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Individual Artists Award (2017). She has curated numerous exhibitions, including co-curating Present Standard at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2016. [2] She is a faculty member in the Contemporary Practices Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [3] Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally.
In 2012, Soto and her husband Dan Sullivan founded The Franklin, an artist-run project space in the backyard of their home in Garfield Park, featuring installations and site-specific work by Chicago and national artists. [4] [5]
The Franklin Collection of over 200 artworks by local, national, and international artists is also at the Garfield Park location. [6]
Soto's ongoing site-specific GRAFT series, begun in 2013, incorporates the geometric designs of iron rejas screens popular throughout Puerto Rico. [7] [8] In 2014, Soto and Dan Sullivan were awarded a public art commission from the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) for the Blue Line Western Station. [9] Their work will be a large-scale installation for the stationhouse exterior. [10]
Edra Soto was an Artist-in-Residence at Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, California, in 2023. [11] In 2024, Soto received the Joyce Foundation award from the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio; [12] and was selected by the New York Public Art Fund to present a project in Central Park. [13] Her work was included in the group show Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; [14] and acquired by the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.
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