Leandro Soto is a multidisciplinary visual/installation and performance artist who has been internationally involved with the arts for the past thirty two years. Soto was one of the leading figures of the influential "Volumen Uno", an artistic movement that changed the course of Cuban Art in the decade of the 1980's, in which he was the first artist in his generation to work with the Afro-Cuban heritage.  In his current work Soto continues to draw simultaneously on European and non-European cultural heritages and art forms -- acquired as a result of his traveling and living in numerous cultures.  Soto contributes to the rich cross-cultural dialogue in contemporary arts.