Jonathan Herrera Soto

Jonathan Herrera Soto (b. 1994) holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. He is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, Yale Prison Education Initiative Fellowship, and the Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School. Herrera Soto is a printmaker, whose practice explores the relationship between the printing matrix (the surface used to create the print) and the substrate (the material that receives the print). He is interested in how this interaction can serve as a metaphor for translation and mistranslation, specifically highlighting distortions that occur in the process of understanding one another in the world.