Jose Soria is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the intersections of religion, sexuality, and cultural identity through memory-based and material driven practices. Rooted in his upbringing in California’s Central Valley, Soria’s work engages multiple forms of displacement, including physical, cultural, emotional, and spiritual, using them as frameworks to explore resilience, intimacy, and belonging.

Drawing from a background shaped by Catholicism, familial gardens, and growing up closeted within a traditional Hispanic household, Soria incorporates religious iconography, domestic materials, and figurative imagery across painting, assemblage, and woodworking.

Through an embrace of vulnerability as a critical and generative force, his work holds contradiction, including faith and doubt, devotion and resistance, tenderness and tension, allowing private memory to become collective experience. These inquiries into inherited belief systems, generational trauma, and the construction of identity ultimately frame the body as a site of connection, grief, love, and transformation.