Over the last decade, Boston-based artist Evelyn Rydz has focused her work on contemporary coastlines and ways our everyday lives impact and are impacted by changing oceans. Raised in Miami, Rydz received an MFA from SMFA at Tufts University and a BFA from Florida State University. A selection of recent and upcoming exhibitions include Plastic Entanglements at the Palmer Art Museum, Penn State University; Forever Yours, a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Floating Artifacts, a solo exhibition at Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University Art Gallery; GYRE: the Plastic Ocean, a Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition at the Anchorage Museum, Alaska, USC Fisher Museum, L.A., and CDC Museum, Atlanta; the Foster Prize Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the DeCordova Annual at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; To Extremes: Public Art in a Changing World at Maseeh Hall, MIT; The Pencil of Nature at Julie Saul Gallery, NY; El Parque Cultural del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia; and Drawing Itself at Brattleboro Museum, Vermont. Rydz is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Drawing Fellowship, an SMFA Traveling Fellowship, and a Bruce Dayton Fellowship. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the Federal Reserve Bank, Fidelity Investments, Fitchburg Art Museum, and DeCordova Museum of Art. She is currently an Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.