April 27
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Edra Soto (b.
Puerto Rico 1971) is a Chicago based artist. In 1995 Edra received the Alfonso
Arana Fellowship to work in Paris for one year. She obtained an MFA from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2OOO. Immediately after, she was
awarded the SAIC Trustees Grant to attend Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture.
She has exhibited
nationally and internationally. Her work has been feature in New American
Paintings and The Museum of Cotemporary Art of Chicago. Soto has lectured at El
Museo de Puerto Rico and The Art Institute of Chicago among others.
She is currently a
participant at the Hyde Park Art Center’s The
Center Program, granted by The Joyce Foundation.
Upcoming exhibitions
include Now See Hear at Believe Inn and Point
of Departure, curated by Amy Zahi at The Arcade, Columbia College Chicago
and et aliae, curated
by Beatriz Santiago at Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Soto and her husband Dan
Sullivan design, fabricated and currently run operations of The Franklin, an artist run exhibition
space located in their home’s backyard in East Garfield Park, in Chicago. This project has been funded by Northeastern
Illinois University, 3Arts Foundation, and a grant from The Propeller Fund.
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, APRIL 27th, 7-10PM
3216 s. Morgan St. Apt 4R
Chicago, IL, 60608
