About
Lydia Gravis, b. 1981 in Spokane, Washington, is a visual artist and arts administrator. Since becoming a university art gallery director in 2014, she’s overseen over 75 exhibitions of local, national, and internationally renowned artists working at the forefront of contemporary art, and a robust schedule of auxiliary programs including visiting artist lectures, film screenings, outreach programs, and professional development opportunities for students. She earned her B.A. with dual majors in Visual Art and Human Studies from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina in 2003 and her M.F.A. in Visual Art from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in Boston, Massachusetts in 2013. She views her identity as an artist as integral to her role as a university gallery director, and exhibits her own work regularly in solo and group exhibitions. She received the Ogden Mayor's Award in the Arts in 2020, and her work is held in the Salt Lake County and State of Utah Alice Merrill Horne art collections. Her work was featured in American Art Collector magazine in 2019, and she regularly participates in national and international artist residencies to create new bodies of work. She lives in the Nine Rails Arts District in Ogden, Utah with her husband and two young children.