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Edra Soto, Casa-Isla | House-Island, 2022. Chicago Botanic Garden. Flourish: The Garden at 50.
Photo credit James Prinz.
Edra Soto
2024 PAD Founders Awardee
PAD is delighted to announce that Chicago artist Edra Soto has won the 2024 PAD Founders Award for achievement in the field of public art.
Often manifested in representational form, Edra Soto’s work walks the line between visual arts, social practice, immersive installations, and architectural interventions. She aims to challenge the boundaries between audience, artist and the work itself, prompting viewers to reconsider the nature of urban space, cross-cultural dynamics, the legacy of colonialism, and personal responsibility. Soto’s upbringing and relationships with communities in Puerto Rico and the US informs her artistic practice.
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m i c c a’ performance on and around Maren Hassinger ‘VesselNine’ at New Agora: Queer Cafeteria; 2022. Socrates Sculpture Park. Image by Scott Lynch.
