Molly Soda

Amalia Soto "Molly Soda" is a Brooklyn-based artist and internet celebrity. Soda works across a variety of digital platforms, producing videos, GIFs, zines, and web-based performance art, which are presented both online and in gallery installations in a variety of forms. Molly Soda's work explores the technological mediation of self-concept, contemporary feminism, cyberfeminism, mass media and popular social media culture. Molly Soda is the co-editor (with Arvida Byström) of the 2017 book, Pics or It Didn't Happen: Images Banned From Instagram. 2Biography Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1989, Molly Soda grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. Soda studied photography and Imaging Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, graduating with a BFA in 2011. Soda cites performance artists such as Marina Abramović and Carolee Schneeman as artistic influences. Since 2011, Molly Soda has worked out of Chicago, Detroit and New York. 2Celebrity Molly Soda started blogging as a teenager. In the late 2000s, her Tumblr blog began to attract attention beyond the Tumblr sphere, gaining notoriety on the site and on wider social media platform