LYDIA SMITH
lydia.smith.studio@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MFA, Painting and Drawing, The Ohio State University, 2022
Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Folklore Studies
BA, Studio Art and Anthropology, Rice University, 2015
Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in Research and Creative Works
FELLOWSHIPS
Global Arts + Humanities Discovery ThemeTeam Fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2021-22
University Fellowship, The Ohio State University Graduate School, Columbus, OH, 2019-20
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 2015-16
RESIDENCIES
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2024
Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN, 2024
ChaNorth, Pine Plains, NY, 2024
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2022
Columbus Printed Arts Center Residency, Columbus, OH, 2022
The Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprenticeship, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
Denmark Arts Center Residency, Denmark, ME, 2017
The Tyler Schoolof Art Summer Painting and Sculpture Intensive, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
Yale University Summer Session at the Institute for Studio Studies, Auvillar, France, 2012
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Burial Sites, The Neon Heater, Findlay, OH, 2024
Burial Sites: Columbus, ROYG BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2023
Remember You Are Dust, St. Mark’sEpiscopal Church, Glen Ellyn, IL, 2017
Dance with Them: Moving Memories, Denmark Arts Center and Studio 408, Portland, MN, 2017
The Sultan’s Treasures, mural project in collaboration with ARCHiNOS in the “City of the Dead,” Cairo, Egypt, 2016
Not Born Yesterday, Rice Public Art, BRC Gallery, Houston, TX, 2015
I Am Here, Matchbox Gallery, Houston, TX, 2012
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
Ghosts in the Garden, collaborative installation with Cat Mailloux and Benedict Scheuer, Columbus Printed Arts Center, Columbus, OH, 2022
I Can See Clearly Now, collaborative installation with Aaron Peters, Hopkins Hall Gallery and Urban Arts Space Online, Columbus, OH, 2021
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
FOLDS, curated by Laura Larson & Suzanne Silver, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY, 2024 (forthcoming)
Ohayo, Ohio, Maebashi Art Practice, Maebashi, Japan, 2024
Wish You WereHere: The Second Best Time Is Now, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2024
Trite and True, curated by Miranda Holmes, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH, 2022
this, that, and the other thing, MFA thesis exhibition, Urban Arts Space,Columbus, OH, 2022
Young Painters Competition, Hiestand Galleries, Oxford, OH, 2022
OyG's Flat File 2022 Exhibition Program, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
29thAnnual Fergus Scholarship Exhibition, Urban Arts Space Online, Columbus, OH, 2021
Knew Normal, Automat Collective, Philadelphia, PA, 2020
24-hour Drama, online (24hourdrama.art), Hopkins Hall Gallery and the Hybrid Arts Lab, Columbus, OH, 2020
Consummate Love, Hopkins Hall Gallery,Columbus, OH, 2020
Breaking Ground, Wild Goose Creative,Columbus, OH, 2020
Symbolic Activities, Ohio State FineArts Library, Columbus, OH, 2020
Women in Cartography, Free Library ofPhiladelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
Laurel Hill Circa…, Laurel HillCemetery, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Monuments, Mausoleums, and Museums, SpillwayCollective, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Free Forks: Rice University Senior Studio Exhibition, Houston, TX, 2015
Damn Girl! Pop-up exhibition curated by Jessica Fuquay, Houston, TX, 2015
Rising Eyes of Texas 2015, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX, 2015
Groundwork, Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition Fellowship, Rice Media Center, Houston, TX, 2014
Sukkah City STL, Sam Fox School of Design, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, 2014
The World Was Never Flat, MatchboxGallery, Houston, TX, 2014
Hot Box, Icebox Project Space (CraneArts), Philadelphia, PA, 2014
Rising Eyes of Texas 2014, RockportCenter for the Arts, Rockport, TX, 2014
German Cemeteries in Czech Lands: A Visual Inquiry, Kido Exhibition Space, Prague, CZ,
Straight Up, Bubenska 1, Prague, CZ, 2013
Paper Riot, Rice Media Center, Houston, TX, 2012
UGx3: Auvillar, Norfolk, and Art Majors, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2012
COMMUNITYPROJECTS
Black Appalachians: Leadership,Legacy and Village Life in Rendville, Ohio, Event and month-long exhibition display at The Ohio State University Libraries, produced in collaboration with The Center for Folklore Studies, 2022
Decoration Day at RendvilleCemetery, The Rendville Historic Preservation Society, Online Event Film Screening and Presentation, June 3rd, 2021
Rendville Cemetery, The Ohio Field School, Online Project, https://u.osu.edu/rendvillecemetery/, 2020 - present
TALKS / LECTURES/ PERFORMANCES
Blah Blah Blah Artist Talks, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN, 2024
Artist Lecture, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 2024
Guest Critic, Pop Up, Columbus Printed Arts Center Exhibition, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2024
Visiting Artist Lecture, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, 2023
Visiting Artist Lecture, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 2023
Society for Applied Anthropology, Cincinnati, OH, 2023
OyG Flat File Friday, Ortegay Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (Virtual Event), 2022
Ohio State Department of Comparative Studies and Center for Religious Studies Conference, Columbus, OH, 2022
Community, Social Practices, and Expansive Art Making, presentation with Jacob Kopcienski, Art 2300: Two-Dimensional Studies, Ohio State University, 2022
Leave No Stone Unturned, guest presentation, Art 5335: Digital Input and Output, Ohio State University, 2022
Virtual Decoration Day in Rendville Ohio: Creative Ethnographic and Community Building Strategies,” paper presented with Jacob Kopcienski at the Indiana University/ Ohio State University Folklore Conference, 2022
Crafting Community Narratives in Rendville, Ohio, panel presentation with Harry Ivory, Janis Ivory, Jacob Kopcienski, Alona Norwood, and Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth at the Appalachian Studies Association, 2022
Creative and Community Engaged Ethnography: Crafting Community Narratives In Rendville Ohio, Presentation with Jacob Kopcienski, Comparative Studies 2350: Introduction to Folklore, Ohio State University, 2022
Creative and Community-Engaged Ethnography, Presentation with Jacob Kopcienski, Mosaic Experiential Learning in the Humanities; Columbus, OH, 2021
Panel Discussion, Decolonizing Research Methodologies, The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, The Ohio State University, 2021
Panelist, Reimaging Memorials: A Panel Discussion for Museums, Monuments & Mausoleums, Spillway Collective, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Guest Lecture, Changing Views of Cemeteries: Building Understanding Online, Association for Death, Education and Counseling Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018
Guest Lecture, Race, Identity & Experience in American Art, Tyler School of Art, 2017
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA,
Guest Lecture, Popular Culture and Death, Thanatology Department, Kings College, The University of Western Ontario, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
Chapter for The Ohio Field School: Placemaking, Service- Learning, and Collaborative Ethnography (forthcoming 2024), University of Wisconsin Press), co-written with Jacob Kopcienski.
Burial Sites, 13 volume box set artist book, edition of 50, 2023
WAYSTONES, hand bound artist book, edition of 50, 2023
TheThird Body, Passing Notes, Volume 2, 2022, co-written with Addison Namnoum.
You Are Nowhere, plain china, 2014, Volume 3.
R2: The RiceReview. 2014. Selected photos including cover art.
R2: The Rice Review. 2013. Selected photos.
The Rice Standard, Rice University’s Online Magazine. 2012. Selected illustrations.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bogia, Chris. “Ortega Y Gasset Projects' Tenth-Anniversary Fundraiser." Artforum, January 31, 2024.
McOmie, Maya. Exhibition Catalogue Essay. this, that, and the other thing, 2022.
White, André. “College of Arts and Sciences Adapt to Outdoor Arts Spaces.” The Lantern, September 3, 2020.
“Two Rice University Students Awarded Watson Fellowships.” The Houston Chronical: Chron., March 28, 2015.
Newman, Sophie. “Rice Welcomes Annual Student Art Show.” The Rice Thresher, April 23, 2015.
Strench, Kaylen. “BRC Welcomes StudentExhibition.” The Rice Thresher, April 15, 2015.
Strench, Kaylen. “Interdisciplinary Team Creates Public Art Installation.” The Rice Thresher, October 1, 2014.
Kachkou, Danya. “Pitman Exhibit Showcases Student Work.” The Rice Thresher, February 18, 2014.
“Pitman Exhibition Fellowship Displays Student Collaboration” Humanitas, The Rice University Annual Humanities Magazine, 2014.
Wang, Henry Bair and Skye. “Interiorities pushes viewers out of their comfort zones.” The Rice Thresher, September 24, 2013.
Madanay, Farrah.“Melodies and Minds Mix at Matchbox.” The Rice Thresher, March 30, 2012.
Madanay, Farrah. “A Living Room Invaded by Art and Poetry.” The Rice Thresher, December 1, 2011.
“2010-2011 DuPage County Academic Team.” Daily Herald, June 3, 2011.
HONORS /AWARDS
Artist Projects Community-ReviewedGrant, Greater Columbus Arts Council, 2024
Funds for Artists, Greater Columbus Arts Council, 2024
Associated Faculty Research Grant, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, 2023
Individual Artist Grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council, 2023
Nomination: The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowships in Painting and Sculpture, 2022
Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grants Program, The Ohio State University, 2022
Associated Faculty Research Grant, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, 2022
Alumni Grants for GraduateResearch and Scholarship, The Ohio State University, 2021
Support for Professional Artists: Individuals grant, Greater Columbus Arts Council, 2021
Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grants Program, The Ohio State University, 2021
Global Arts + Humanities Graduate Research Grant, The Ohio State University, 2020
John Fergus Family Scholarship, The Ohio State University, 2020
Mavis C. Pitman Memorial Prize in Art, Rice University, 2015
Tyler School of Art Summer Painting and Sculpture Intensive Scholarship, 2014
Jessie Matthews Memorial Award in Art, Rice University, 2014
Dr. John E. ParishSummer Travel Fellowship, Rice University, 2014
Rice University Architecture Mini-Charrette Team Design Competition for “Sound Worm,” 2013
Raymond John Swift Medal in Art, Rice University, 2012
COLLECTIONS
The Ohio State University Rare Books Library, Columbus, Ohio
The Ohio State University Public Art Collection, Columbus, Ohio
The Free Library, Philadelphia, PA
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2022 - present
Instructor of Record, Beginning Drawing, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, 2020-21
Teaching Artist, Printmaking Without A Press, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Teaching Assistant to Lisa Lapinski, Beginning Sculpture, Rice University, 2015
Instructor, Experiential Religions: Interfaith in Houston, Student Taught Course, Rice University, 2013
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
AUTOMAT, Curatorial Collective Member, Philadelphia, PA, 2018- 2023
Office Hours, participatory exhibition about higher education in the arts, February 18- March 4, 2023
The Third Body Part 2: Enduring, co-curated with Addison Namnoum, featuring Nicki Cherry,
Jessica Fuquay, Rachel Hsu, and Aaron Storm, October 8-29, 2022
Reverse Grip, featuring Rebecca Arp, Madeleine Conover, Gabrielle Constantine,Catherine Nelson, Chau Nguyen, Hannah Parrett, and Todd Stong, July 9 - August 6, 2022
The Third Body Part 1: Utterances, co-curated with Addison Namnoum, featuring Nicki Cherry, Jessica Fuquay, Rachel Hsu, and Aaron Storm, April 9 - 30, 2022
Cultivating a Garden Off Grid, featuring Calista Lyon, Sam Calvetti, and Zachary Rawe, November 1 - December 1, 2019
Matchbox Gallery, Gallery Director, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2013-2015
Rokk: FieldNotes, McKenna Mitchell, April 23 - May 16, 2015
BITTERSALT, Sara Rodriguez, June Deng, and He Yutian, March 19 - April 11, 2015
Everything All At Once, Melinda Laszczynski, February 5 - March 1, 2015
Recommended forYou, Blake Jones, December 4-17, 2014
Neuroses, Laura Thomas, On View: November 13- 26, 2014
ONE SMALL STEP, Peter Lucas and Camilo Gonzalez, October 15- 30, 2014
The World Was Never Flat, Maria Heg, Nico Gardner, MacAulay Brown and Monica Burckhardt, John Forse, Lydia Smith, September 25- October 9, 2014
To The Devil His Due, Kelly King, April 24-25, 2014
You Are Damn Wrong, A Collaborative Project with Rice Gallery and the Taikang Space (Bejing), April 10 - 20, 2014
MELONCHOLY: Featuring “Melon Man and Unpleasant Brunch,” Claire Elestwani, publications by Daisy Chung, Linh-Tran Do, Hye-Jeon Jeon, Blake Jones, and ACK!, March 27 - April 6, 2014
Mesocosm (Wink, Texas), Film by Marina Zurkow, Special Screening: March 13, 2014
MINDGAMES, Juan Borbon, February 27 - March 13, 2014
Everyone is Normal (and then you get to know them), Judi Freedman, February 13- 23, 2014
Rolled & Stoned, Sophie Eichner, Geraldine Franco, Gabbie Hulet, Kelly King, Claire O’Malley, Ellen Marsh, and Morgan McNeel, January 23 - February 6, 2014
Naturally, By Stephanie Clark, Petra Reeves, Sarah Hearn, November 14 - December 6, 2013
ALL YELLOW, the town we live in, Mark Hirsch, November 1- 10, 2013
Interiorities, Betsy Huete, September 26- October 17, 2013
ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEMENT
Studio Facilitator and Special Project Assistant for Ann Hamilton, 2023-present
Archival and Special Project Assistant for Dani and Sheilah Restack, 2023-present
Archival and Special Project Assistant for Carmen Winant, 2022-23
Preparator, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, 2017-19
Preparator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2015-17