Edra Soto and C. Ondine Chavoya selected as 2025 Honorees of TLP's Spring Celebration
The Latinx Project: Interdisciplinary Center for Arts and Culture announces the selection of artist Edra Soto and art historian and curator C. Ondine Chavoya as Honorees. Soto and Chavoya will be recognized at The Latinx Project’s Spring Celebration on April 2, 2025 at the iconic Gonzalez y Gonzalez in New York City. The celebration and fundraiser is open to the public and supports the sustainability of The Latinx Project’s programs in arts and culture. Tickets are available through this link.
Edra Soto is a Puerto Rican-born artist and co-director of outdoor project space The Franklin. Having grown up in Puerto Rico, and now immersed in her Chicago community, the artist has evolved to raise questions through her work about constructed social orders, diasporic identity, and the legacy of colonialism. Soto has presented solo exhibitions across the country and her work has been featured in notable group exhibitions including Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape at Carnegie Museum of Art (2024) and no existe un mundo poshuracán at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2022). She has received numerous public commissions; most recently for the Public Art Fund at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park. Her work is in the collection of institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago.
C. Ondine Chavoya is the John D. Murchison Regents Professor in Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he was a Professor of Art History and Latinx Studies at Williams College, where he was a co-founder of the College’s interdisciplinary program in Latinx Studies. He is the author of numerous texts on Chicanx art, media, and performance, and co-editor of Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (Duke University Press, 2019). His curatorial projects have addressed issues of collaboration, experimentation, social justice, and archival practices in contemporary art. Chavoya co-organized Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972-1987 with Rita Gonzalez in 2011 and Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. with David Evans Frantz in 2017. More recently, he co-organized the travelling exhibition Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art.
Soto and Chavoya will be presented with awards designed by multidisciplinary artist Vladimir Cybil Charlier. Born in Queens to Haitian parents, her works rethink forms of popular art and craft from the Caribbean within a diasporic perspective.
This year’s celebration marks The Latinx Project’s third annual fundraiser. It will include an online auction launching in late February 2025 featuring artists who have exhibited work in one of the center’s sixteen exhibitions since its founding. Dominican-born and Bronx-raised DJ Dada Cozmic and Afro-Latina poet Yesenia Montilla will perform.
Click here to learn more and register for The Latinx Project’s Spring Celebration and Fundraiser. Discounted tickets are available for Artists, Cultural Workers & Students. Individual patrons and organizations are invited to consider sponsorship opportunities. All contributions directly support the sustainability of arts and culture programs at The Latinx Project.