Lydia Ricci

Lydia Ricci has a messy desk and a clean desk — one for her work as an artist, and one for her practice as a graphic designer. But she’ll never tell which is which. Currently, she spends most of her time making tiny sculptures of everyday objects “from scraps” of daily existence. Her fragmentary 3-D collages, which evoke a sense of wonder and hazy nostalgia, have been widely published and exhibited at galleries in New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. When she’s not creating vintage typewriters from cereal box lids and floppy disks, Lydia teaches courses in branding, design, and storytelling at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Lydia is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, and has also studied in St Gallen, Switzerland and Cortona, Italy. She lives outside Philadelphia.