Vania Soto

visual artist, muralist, & curator

A framed colorful artwork of a skeleton with a butterfly-shaped butterfly wings hat against a turquoise background.

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Hi,
I’m Vania Soto

A woman with long, wavy dark hair, wearing makeup including eyeliner and lipstick, looking at the camera. The background features a blue-tinted grid or window pattern.

A U.S.-based artist in the Kansas City metro area of Missouri

Through murals and commissioned paintings based on photographic references, I translate lived experience into visual language, using color as a primary tool for communication rather than decoration.

While the figures and forms I paint are grounded in reality, the emotional atmosphere surrounding them moves toward the surreal, existing not in nature but in imagination, memory, and feeling.

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Art Prints Available for purchase

Blue Demon 11x14

$30.75

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Interested in a custom mural, portrait, or live-painting? Receive custom art based on your budget and needs.

A woman in a red dress sitting on a chair, painting a large landscape on a canvas. The painting depicts green hills and a bright sky. The artist is focused on her work, with a palette and paintbrush in her hands. There are painting supplies and an electric extension cord on the floor, and a smaller reference or sketch of the painting on a stand nearby.

Indoor & Outdoor Murals ➞

Live Painting at Events ➞

Portrait Commissions ➞

Leather, Jeans & Glass ➞

Vania Soto is the founder of Monarca Art Space

Monarca Art Space provides artist representation for emerging artists, and has a commissioned painting entering the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino

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