Lydia Rubio Ferrer

Who is Lydia Rubio Ferrer?

Lydia Rubio is a contemporary Cuban artist.

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 Décor.

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.