Lydia Smith   https://www.lydiasmith.studio/

Lydia Smith (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Columbus, OH. Her practice focuses on the archive as a phenomenological site for understanding the remnants of the past and its links to our cultural understanding of death, time, and place. Smith received an MFA from The Ohio State University and a BA from Rice University. She directed Rice’s Matchbox Gallery (2013-2015) and was a member of the artist-run curatorial collective AUTOMAT in Philadelphia, PA (2018-2023). Smith has completed residencies at Stove Works, The Vermont Studio Center, The Visual Studies Workshop, Columbus Printed Arts Center, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Exhibitions include Project: ARTSpace, The Neon Heater, Ortega y Gasset Projects, the Hiestand Galleries at Miami University, the BioScience Research Collaborative at Rice University, Icebox Project Space, Roy G Biv, and Urban Arts Space, Ohio State Libraries, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bubenska 1 in Prague, CZ, and the City of the Dead in Cairo, Egypt.