Lydia Pettit
Lydia Pettit (b. 1991) is a Painter and Curator from Towson, Maryland. She pursued her BFA in painting and photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art and is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. In 2014, she purchased and opened Platform Arts Center, a studio and mixed-use building in downtown Baltimore, to provide affordable studio space to young and low-income artists in the area. Within the space she was the co-Director and co-Founder of Platform Gallery, a project with a focus on providing opportunities to Baltimore-based and regional emerging artists. In 2017 Pettit and her partner closed the gallery, and she turned her focus to her art practice. She obtained her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2020 and is now living and working in Bow, London.
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EDUCATION
2020 Royal College of Art, MA Painting, London,
United Kingdom
2014 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA),
Baltimore, USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting;
Photography Concentration
Magna Cum Laude; 3.8 GPA
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
2020 Jealous Prize, London, UK
Young Contemporary Artist Award
Shortlist, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Signature Art Prize Finalist, London, UK
2019 Sunny Art Prize Shortlist, London, UK
Neo:Artprize Shortlist, Bolton, UK
Royal Society of British Artists Rome
Fellowship Semifinalist, London, UK
2018 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD, USA
2016 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant,
Quebec, Canada
2015 Alumni Residency Grant at Burren College
of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2014 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant,
Quebec, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Well, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand,
Geneva, CH
2018 TENDER FLEX, Artscape Artist Run Art Fair,
Baltimore, MD, USA
BIG SEXY, School 33, Baltimore, MD, USA
2017 Murmurs: New Paintings by Lydia Pettit,
Hotel Indigo, Baltimore, MD, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022. and this skin of mine, to live again a second time’, Guts Gallery, London, UK
2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London,
UK
50/50, Fold Gallery, London, UK
Royal College of Art Show, Kristen
Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
Tomorrow: London, White Cube, London, UK
Portraits & Some Standing Figures, Galerie
Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva, CH
Signature Art Prize Gala, Bankside Hotel,
London, UK
2019 Bodies: Self & Sex, No. 20 Arts, London, UK
Sunny Art Prize 2019, Sunny Art Centre,
London, UK
A RAW GARDEN, Pinch Projects, Fitzrovia
Gallery, London, UK
RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, Royal Overseas
League, London, UK
Painters on the Other Side, Dyson Gallery,
London, UK
2018 DEEP STRETCH, Field Projects, New York,
NY, USA