Lydia Rubio was born in Havana, Cuba. She has been producing her work for 25 years and has had 13 solo shows and 55 group shows in the national and regional public and private institutions. She is a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Fellowship, the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting, and the Cintas Foundation Fellowship. Presently she has completed large-scale public art sculpture commissions, one for Terminal C of Raleigh Durham Airport and the other for The Woman Park in Miami Dade County. In 2002 she completed a public art commission by Dade County Art in Public Places of paintings, sculptures and text for the Port of Miami. Ms. Rubio works are in the permanent collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Southern California, the Wolfsonian FIU, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Miami Dade Community College, Bryn Mawr College and Lehigh University Art Galleries and private collections in New York, Miami and Europe. At Parsons School of Design in NYC she developed during a three-year period, the Visual Thinking Studio, with the Dept. of Environmental Design. She has been invited as visiting artist to several fine arts programs in the state of Florida. Lydia Rubio was a visiting critic in the architectural design studios at Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge for two years and a full time instructor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture for five years.