Lydia Pettit

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Lydia Pettit is an artist from Baltimore, USA living and working in London, UK. Pettit’s works explore the experience of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the politics of the body, using self portraiture as a vehicle to process and communicate. The body is a host to trauma, and becomes a battleground in itself in the push and pull between recovery and regression, love and disgust, tenderness and callousness. To live with PTSD is to be a haunted house; spectres of the past infiltrate the halls... Who's there? Turn the corner and suddenly, a flash of fear, pain, creeping dread and shame. The Artist uses direct references from horror as avatars for different parts of the psyche -Anger as a crazed slasher, Fear as the helpless victim, and Desire as a rabid wild woman. Putting on these personas through self portraiture speaks to the dark comedy of living with mental illness, the ups and the downs, and the complications of recovery. Her works are confrontational depictions of her own inward gaze, forcing the viewer to reckon with the realities of her body and mind, and their own viewpoints on the struggles women face with sexual abuse, trauma, body politics, and mental health.

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  • Lydia Pettit, Dog Woman (After Rego), 2024
    Lydia Pettit
    Dog Woman (After Rego), 2024
    Oil on canvas
    260 x 170 cm
    102 3/8 x 66 7/8 in
  • Lydia Pettit, Entry Points, 2024
    Lydia Pettit
    Entry Points, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    200 x 130 cm
    78 3/4 x 51 1/8 in
  • Lydia Pettit, Hunger, 2024
    Lydia Pettit
    Hunger, 2024
    Oil on canvas
    150 x 150 cm
    59 x 59 in
  • Lydia Pettit, Will you Keep me Here Forever?, 2024
    Lydia Pettit
    Will you Keep me Here Forever?, 2024
    Mixed media
    160 x 160 x 20 cm
    63 x 63 x 7 7/8 in
  • Lydia Pettit, covet 4, 2022
    Lydia Pettit
    covet 4, 2022
    Oil on linen
    50 x 70 cm
    19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in
  • Lydia Pettit, covet 3, 2022
    Lydia Pettit
    covet 3, 2022
    Oil on linen
    50 x 70 cm
    19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in
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B. 1991 in Towson, Maryland. Lives and works in London.

 

Education

2018-2020 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 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023 In Your Anger, I See Fear, Galerie Judin, Berlin, DE 

2022 Introductions: Lydia Pettit, White Cube, London, UK 

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

2024 BITCHES IN HEAT, Guts Gallery, London, UK 

2024 Prophetic Dreams, Kutlesa Gallery, Goldau, CH 

2024 The Arcadian Dream, Spurs Gallery, Beijing, CN 

2023 Sirani, Galerie Judin, Berlin, DE
2023 LOOKING LIKE FIRE, Sim Smith, London, UK 

2023 I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, Dinner Gallery, New York, USA 

2023 The Object Stares Back, Tube Culture Gallery, Milan, IT 

2022 GIALLO!, Trafalgar Avenue, London, UK
2022 Portraiture: An Ongoing Story, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva, CH 

2022 And this Skin of Mine, To Live a Second Time, Guts Gallery, London, UK 

2021 New Contemporaries 2021, South London Gallery, London, UK 

2021 New Contemporaries 2021, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
2021 IRL, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK 

2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 50/50, Fold Gallery, London, UK 

2020 Royal College of Art Show, Kristen Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK 

2020 Tomorrow: London, White Cube, London, UK
2020 Portraits and Some Standing Figures, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva, CH 

2020 Signature Art Prize Gala, Bankside Hotel, London, UK 

2019 Bodies: Self & Sex, No. 20 Arts, London, UK
2019 Sunny Art Prize 2019, Sunny Art Centre, London, UK
2019 A RAW GARDEN, Pinch Projects, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK 

2019 RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, Royal 2019 Overseas League, London, UK 

2019 Painters on the Other Side, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2019 When We Once Were Someone, YNGSPC.com 

2018 DEEP STRETCH, Field Projects, New York, NY, USA
2017 Artists on the Other Side, Cade Gallery, Arnold, MD, USA 

 

Honours, Awards and Grants

2020 Jealous Prize, Jealous Gallery and Print Studio, London, UK 

2019 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 for Representational Art, Quebec, Canada 

2015 Alumni Residency Grant at Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland 

2014 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for representational Art, Quebec, Canada