Evelyn Rydz
Open Oceans: Together/Apart
Evelyn Rydz is a visual artist that works in painting, drawing and photography. Rydz examines water bodies at all scales, from the tracing of coastlines to the isolation of offshore debris at the microscopic level. She follows water as it carries histories across currents and continents. Rydz received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and is currently Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Rydz’s recent exhibitions include features at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA), Anchorage Museum (AK), University of Southern California Fisher Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Lowe Art Museum (Miami, FL), Palmer Art Museum at Penn State University, Jordan Snitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR) and the El Parque Cultural del Caribe, (Barranquilla). She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, Brother Thomas Fellowship, SMFA Traveling Fellowship, Artist Resource Trust Grant, Visual Arts Finalist of the Cintas Knight Foundation, and most recently of the 2020-21 U.S. Latinx Art Forum Charla Fund and the 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Rydz is committed to producing participatory community projects, and has collaborated with the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, University of Massachusetts, ICA Watershed, Boston University's 808 Gallery, Urbano Project and the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at Harvard University.
