THE TRIENNIAL 2025

b. 1979

Evelyn Rydz

Evelyn Rydz (she | her) works across drawing, site-responsive installations, and community projects to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and with each other. Her practice explores connections between bodies of water, personal histories, consumer cycles, and threats to natural and cultural ecosystems.

Rydz is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, Brother Thomas Fellowship, SMFA Traveling Fellowship, U.S. Latinx Art Forum Charla Fund, and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Exhibitions include features at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Anchorage Museum, AK; USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA; Galeria Ponce Robles, Madrid, Spain; Palmer Art Museum, Penn State University, PA; and Palacio de Justicia, Matanzas, Cuba.

Rydz has collaborated on community projects with University of Massachusetts, ICA Watershed, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, and MIT List Visual Arts Center. Rydz is a Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.