Congratulations to Evelyn Rydz and the other recipients of the 2018 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants!
The grant recipients’ work represents a wide range of artistic techniques, approaches, and concerns, and engages with such pressing issues as migration, identity, notions of belonging, and representation within the art historical canon and in social and political spheres, among other important subjects. The final selections for the grants are made with a particular eye toward artists whose work has contributed to important artistic and cultural discourse, but who have nonetheless remained under-recognized on a national level.
About Evelyn Rydz:
Raised in Miami, FL, Evelyn Rydz is a visual artist who lives and works in Boston, MA. Rydz the recipient of a Brother Thomas Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, a SMFA Traveling Fellowship, and a Artist Resource Trust Grant, and is a Cintas Knight Foundation Visual Arts Finalist. Her work is in various public collections including the Federal Reserve Bank, Barr Foundation, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fidelity Investments, and DeCordova Museum. Her recent exhibitions include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Palmer Art Museum at Penn State University, PA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Jordan Snitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; El Parque Cultural del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia; USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, CA; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Anchorage Museum, AK; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL. Rydz received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and is currently Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
“As a first generation American, with parents born in Colombia and Cuba, I am interested in relocation across coasts and ways we are shaped by the landscapes of home. Over the last decade, I have studied, collected, and documented remnants of modern life washed ashore the coasts of North and South America. These field studies have inspired the imagery in my work mapping coastlines and currents through the residues of our everyday lives.”
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