Jose Soria is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the intersections of religion, sexuality, and cultural identity. Based in California’s Central Valley, he has exhibited widely throughout the United States, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York. He is a member of the Society of West-Coast Artists, an original cofounder of Paper Crane Gallery in Fresno (which later evolved into the artist collective Paper Crane Art Center), and currently teaches as an adjunct professor at Fresno City College and Reedley College.

Soria was awarded the Edward O. Lund Scholarship and studied abroad with the Art & Empire course in London during the winter of 2022–2023. His studio is located at Broadway Studios in downtown Fresno, where he has been a resident artist since 2020 and opens his space monthly for Fresno’s ArtHop.

Rooted in personal experiences, his artwork weaves together many forms of displacement: physical, in the migration of his family from Mexico and their re-rooting in California; cultural, in balancing tradition with new identities; emotional, in growing up in the closet and guarding his sexuality; and spiritual, in navigating his Catholic upbringing. Through his art, he reframes these displacements as spaces for resilience, love, and connection.