Lydia Rubio is a Cuban-born, Puerto Rican-raised multidisciplinary visual artist with a 45-year studio practice focused on painting, artist books, and public art. Her art navigates a poetic interplay between the tangible and the abstract, often engaging themes of memory, identity, and the natural environment.

Her paintings have been exhibited in over 35 solo gallery shows and national museums, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, and 90 group exhibitions. Her works are represented in national museum collections such as the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC., Eskenazi Museum at Indiana University, the Lowe Art Museum, the NSU Art Museum, in South Florida, as well as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her artist books have been exhibited at the Center for Book Arts in NYC and can be found in libraries at Stanford University, University of Southern California, and the Wolfsonian FIU, among others, as well as private collections in New York, Bogota, and Switzerland. Awards include a Tree of Life award, an Oolite Ellies Creator Award, a Pollock Krasner grant, and a Cintas Fellowship.

Rubio holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. Teaching experience includes Parsons School of Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the University of Puerto Rico, School of Architecture. Since 2018 she lives and works in Hudson, NY.