GRAFT
2019
Edra Soto
Chicago, Illinois
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Edra Soto
Edra Soto (b. 1971) is a Puerto Rican-born artist, educator, and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Her work has been featured in notable exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award, the US LatinX Art Forum Fellowship, and MacArthur Foundation International Connections Fund. Soto has received numerous public commissions, for Public Art Fund at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park (2024-2025); Noor Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024); Now & There, Central Wharf Park, Boston, MA (2023); the Chicago Architecture Biennial, IL (2023); and Millenium Park in Chicago, IL (2019). Her work is in the collection of institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2020
Website / Social Links
At the foundation of my practice is my relationship to Puerto Rico’s current cultural identity, one intrinsically shaped by its historical affiliation to Spanish colonial military architecture despite this alliance expiring over a century ago. My work dissects the underlying relationships between these structures and notions of self-value.”
