Amalia Soto, known as Molly Soda, is a Brooklyn-based internet performance artist.
11 Facts About Molly Soda
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Molly Soda's work explores the technological mediation of self-concept, contemporary feminism, cyberfeminism, mass media and popular social media culture.
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Molly Soda is the co-editor with Arvida Bystrom of the 2017 book Pics or It Didn't Happen: Images Banned from Instagram.
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Molly Soda studied photography and Imaging Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, graduating with a BFA in 2011.
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Molly Soda cites performance artists such as Marina Abramovic and Carolee Schneeman as artistic influences.
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Since 2011, Molly Soda has worked out of Chicago, Detroit and New York.
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Molly Soda became an iconic micro-celebrity, known for teen confessions-style art and for her widely imitated personal aesthetic in multiple online subcultures.
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Molly Soda was first recognized for her college senior thesis, Tween Dreams, The work is a YouTube video series, later released on VHS, about a group of preteen friends growing up in the suburbs and living the drama of high school dances, chatroom fights, and meeting boys at the mall in the 2000s.
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Molly Soda was the only actress in the work and played every character.
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Molly Soda designed the gallery to look like a private space, treating a physical gallery space differently than her on line presence, as if people somehow take things more seriously in real life.
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Molly Soda has exhibited both in the United States and Internationally with solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Bloomington and London, England.