Nydia Blas

Nydia Blas is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a B.S. from Ithaca College and received her M.F.A. from Syracuse University in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Magazine and more. She has completed artist residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Villa Albertine in Marseille, France.

Nydia uses photography, collage, video, and books to address matters of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as an American girl, woman, and mother of Afro-Panamanian descent. She delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance, value, and power and uses her work to create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens.