Quick Facts
Biography
Lisa C Soto is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her drawings, installations and sculptures embody the struggle between connections and disconnections. Supporting the belief that all things, seen and unseen are essentially linked. There is a conversation that includes a personal and a universal situation, an interplay between the micro and the macro. Questioning the endless conflicts, the creation of artificial differences, and the establishment of borders. While exploring the essence of the forces at work in the macrocosm. Shaping what those energies, frequencies, and vibrations might look like.
Early life and education
Soto was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in New York City and a village in the South of Spain. She received her art education at the Amsterdams Instituut voor Schilderkunst, in the Netherlands. Her Caribbean heritage (Jamaica and Puerto Rico) and continuous movement to different continents and countries have impacted her art.
Exhibitions
Soto has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the Dominican Republic, Spain, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Berlin and Los Angeles. She has participated "in residencies, public art shows and received commissions in the U.S., Europe and the Caribbean"
- "Material as Metaphor," Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2017)
- "Perfect Day," Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2016)
- Hermitage Artist Retreat, Sarasota, Florida (2016)
- “Hard Edged”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2015)
- "Mi Tormenta", Tub Gallery Miami, Miami, FL (2014)
- “S,M,L,X:LA”, Museum of Architecture & Design, Los Angeles, CA (2014)
- “From voyeurism to wisdom”, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (2014)
- “NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond.” MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2012)
- "Boomerang”, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
- “Grenzenlos.Vielfältig.eins”, Berlin Art Projects, Berlin, Germany (2010)
- Quadriga prize, Berlin, Germany (2009)
Videos
•http://www.theconversationpod.com/ep-186-lisa-soto - Lisa C Soto shares details about her culture, travel, her art and more with Michael Shaw.
•U.S. LATINX ARTS FUTURES SYMPOSIUM 2016 - Lisa C Soto speaking at symposium created and led by the artist Teresita Fernandez hosted at the Ford Foundation.
•The Making of "NGC 1003 & NGC 0913" - Lisa C Soto 2016 Video of crocheted wire installation in "Hard Edged" at California African American Museum (CAAM).
•"Minister of Power" - Lisa C Soto 2015 Video of hanging sculpture at Tub Gallery, Miami, Florida. Solo show "Mi Tormenta".
•"Interstellar, Gravitational, Subaquatic, Coral Dwellings" - Lisa C Soto 2014 Video of installation in Freeway Studies #2: Inside the Quad
•“From Voyeurism to Wisdom” - Lisa C Soto 2014 Video of installation shown at Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association.
•"Relational Realities" - Lisa C Soto 2014 Video of corner installation shown at group show "In 2040" at Jaus Gallery.
•“LCDC 20414” - Lisa C Soto 2014 Video of moving installation at Tub Gallery, Miami, Florida. Solo show "Mi Tormenta".
•"Ossified Cosmos" - Lisa C Soto 2014 Video of sculpture piece shown at Tub Gallery, Miami, Florida.
•"Equalizing Extremes" - Lisa C Soto 2012 Video by Eric Minh Swenson of Lisa C Soto working in her studio.