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; Crystal Bridges  Museum of American Art's satellite, The Momentary, AK; Albright-Knox Northland, NY; Museum of  Contemporary Art of Chicago, IL; Smart Museum, IL and the Abrons Arts Center, NY. Recently, Soto  completed a large-scale public art commission titled “Screenhouse”, currently on view at Millennium  Park in Chicago.

The artist has attended residency programs at Skowhegan School of Painting and  Sculpture, Beta-Local, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts,  Project Row Houses and Art Omi, 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.