Lydia Nobles is a New York based conceptual artist. She uses sculpture as a site for reorienting how bodies are imagined, cared for, and controlled. Her work engages architectural fragments, fabrics, kiln-formed glass, synthetic composites, pigment, body casts, and salvaged objects to construct forms that register touch, inclination, and suspension. These materials are chosen for their capacity to hold tension between softness and structure, attraction and repulsion, intimacy and estrangement.
Nobles’ art has been well received, with selections debuting in solo shows at KAPOW (2024), SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (2023), Field Projects and Ross-Sutton Gallery (2022). The Brooklyn Museum included two sculptures in 50 Years Since Roe: A Convening on Reproductive Justice.
Nobles has also been featured in numerous group shows including Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Latchkey Gallery, Conn College, Peep Space, Lump, Border Project Space, and Cindy Rucker Gallery, among others
Her work is recognized in Art In America, ArtNet News, The New York Times, The Guardian, A Woman’s Thing, hypebae, Paper Mag, HYPERALLERGIC and Smack Mellon’s Hot Picks.
Nobles holds an MFA from Parsons School of Art and Design and a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design with a minor in Textile Design.