Name Lydia Ferrer | Role Artist | |
Lydia Rubio Ferrer
Lydia Rubio (born 1946 in Havana, Cuba) is a contemporary Cuban artist.
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Lydia Rubio had been producing her work since 1980. She has had 25 solo shows and 55 group shows in national and regional public and private institutions.
She is a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Fellowship, the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting, and the Cintas Foundation Fellowship.
Presently she has completed large scale public art sculpture commissions, one for Terminal C of Raleigh Durham Airport and the other for The Woman Park in Miami Dade County. In 2002 she completed a public art commission by Dade County Art in Public Places of paintings, sculptures and text for the Port of Miami.
Her works have been published in periodicals like ARTNews, The Miami Herald, Americas Magazine OEAS, Harvard GSD Magazine, Hemispheres Magazine UA, Southern Accents and Elle Decor.
Ms. Rubio works are in the permanent collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Southern California, the Wolfsonian FIU, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Miami Dade Community College, Bryn Mawr College and Lehigh University Art Galleries and private collections in New York, Miami and Europe.
She was born in Havana, Cuba. She lived in Puerto Rico, Italy, Boston, and New York, and has traveled extensively in Europe and Mexico. She lives and works in Bogota, Colombia and Miami, Florida.
At Parsons School of Design in NYC she developed during a three-year period, the Visual Thinking Studio, with the Dept. of Environmental Design. She has been invited as visiting artist to several fine arts programs in the state of Florida.
Lydia Rubio was a visiting critic in the architectural design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge for two years and a full-time instructor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture for five years.
Individual Exhibitions
Among her personal exhibitions are El Parque de la 79 in Sincronia, Bogota Colombia in 2012, Identity Papers in Cremata Gallery , Miami Fl, 2010, Extrangere at Beaux Arts Des Ameriques Gallery in Montreal, in 2009, "Lydia Rubio. Project Room", Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami, Florida in 2001. " The Alphabet " at Bridgewater Lustberg Gallery, in New York City, in 1998. " Written on Water " at the Joyce Goldstein Gallery, in New York, and Gutierrez Fine Arts, in Miami Beach, FL, in 1995. She has also exhibited with the Bianca Lanza Gallery and Gloria Luria Gallery in Miami Beach.
Awards
The artist has obtained various awards during her life, such as the Pollock Krasner Fellowship in 2006, the Cintas Fellowship 1982, and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting 1994. Graham Foundation Grant and Research Scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1975.
Education
Her education includes: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA. – Master in Architecture 1974 Universit degli Studi, Florence, Italy. Urban Design 1970 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Bachelor in Architecture 1969
Collections
Her work can be found around the world, especially in public collections of the U.S.A, in the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Oscar B. Cintas Collection at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Her artist's books can be found at the Wolfsonian FIU, Rare Book Collection in Miami Beach, Florida the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, and at the University of Miami, Otto Ritchter Library.