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Lydia Rubio

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The Artist

Lydia Rubio was born in Havana, Cuba.

Individual Exhibitions

As a mid career artist, Lydia Rubio has been fully engaged in producing her work for the last 25 years. She has had 13 solo shows and 54 group shows in national and regional public and private institutions.

Among her personal exhibitions we can quote "Lydia Rubio. Projects Room", Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2001. " The Alphabet " at Bridgewater Lustberg Gallery, NY, 1998. " Written on Water " at the Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, and Gutierrez Fine Arts, 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, we can mention 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, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,U.S.A, 1975.

In 2002 she completed a major public art commission by Dade County Art in Public Places of paintings, sculptures and text for the Port of Miami.

She is currently working on two public art large scale sculpture commissions for the Raleigh Durham Airport and Miami Dade County, to be completed in 2008 and 2009.

Collections

Her work can be found around the world, expecially in U.S.A, the Santander Bank, Florida, U.SA. Also in Bryn Mawr College Library, Pennsylvania, U.S.A; His work is part of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. Also present in the Oscar B. Cintas Collection, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.