“The three 2024 Boston Artadia Awardees represent exciting and important voices in the Boston art scene. Engaging urgent topics as varied as water ecosystems, criminal justice, and Yoruba cosmology, these artists deploy materials, language, and cultural traditions to make connections between individual identity and community experience. Each artist draws on their own personal and professional histories to create works of art that speak to our society’s current need for care, joy, and hope.” – juror M. Rachael Arauz, Independent Curator.

Rydz is the 2024 Liberty Mutual Artadia Awardee.

Evelyn Rydz focuses on our complex and embodied relationships to water, from lasting industrial impacts to daily reliance, and deep reverence. She works across drawing, site-responsive installations, and community projects to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and with each other, exploring connections between bodies of water, personal histories, consumer cycles, and threats to natural and cultural ecosystems.

Multidisciplinary artist Evelyn Rydz has received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, U.S. Latinx Art Forum, Brother Thomas Fund, and Massachusetts Cultural Council. Exhibitions include features at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA; ICA, Boston, MA; Anchorage Museum, AK; MFA, Boston, MA; USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; Palacio de Justicia, Matanzas, Cuba. In 2025 she will present a new project at the Charlestown Navy Yard for the Boston Public Art Triennial.