Rebecca Nava Soto is a Xicanx-Latinx multidisciplinary artist and educator born in Chicago, IL to Mexican immigrant parents. She uses mixed media painting, digital media and ephemeral installations to explore themes of writing/iconography, landscape, technology, and Art as Ritual. She earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Painting from Boston University. In the institutional art educational canon she sought to reconcile her identity within the eurocentric art historical focused curriculum.  This led to her pursuit in formal education of PreColumbian Art History courses as an undergraduate and indigenous Mesoamérican Glyphic writing systems in Boston while in graduate school. Her practice includes independent travel and research to communities and architectural ruins in the Maya and Nahuas lands in Mexico and recently to the Weeminuche, Navajo, Abenaki and Mohican lands of the United States. Like her white artist counterparts, she has sought to continue in a painting and art tradition that included her lineage. 

Her most recent projects invite public support of contemporary indigenous regeneration initiatives in the United States and Mexico. In 2021, 2022 and 2023 Rebecca has been a recipient of the ArtsWave, Truth and Reconciliation grant award for Black and Brown artists and in 2022 she received a Vibrant Communities Grant from the Covington's Center for Great Neighborhoods. In 2023, Rebecca was awarded residencies at the Wavepool's Welcome Project in Cincinnati, The Elsewhere Studios in Colorado and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in New York.

Veronica Nava Soto, Rebecca’s sister, has contributed her handmade ceramic vessels for this performance.