Lisa C Soto is a visual artist based in Puerto Rico and Ghana. Imagery of actual and imagined cartography is used in her work to address local and global interactions, tropical flora and cosmic connections. Her multi-medium, large-scale installations – including , flora and earth-based materials, instruments/games, and industrial materials, question hierarchies and binaries, reflecting on rhizomatic patterns in nature and challenging Western “rational” approaches to knowledge.
Selected exhibitions include Negro/A/X group exhibition at Corredor Afro gallery, 2020, Loiza, Puerto Rico; the Getty Foundation initiative PST LA/LA, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, traveling group exhibition from 2017 – 2019; “Convergence”, a 2018 collaboration with Adjaye Associates creating her first permanent installation in the public realm in Newark, NJ. Artist lectures include MIT, Ford Foundation, KNUST, Claremont Graduate University and Rutgers University. Soto is currently an MFA candidate at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)/Ghana.
