Evelyn Rydz works across drawing, site-responsive installations, and community projects to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and with each other. Her practice explores connections between bodies of water, personal histories, consumer cycles, and threats to natural and cultural ecosystems.

Rydz is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, Artadia Award, Brother Thomas Fellowship, and U.S. Latinx Art Forum Charla Fund. Exhibitions include features at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Anchorage Museum, AK; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; and Palacio de Justicia, Matanzas, Cuba.

Rydz has collaborated on community projects with ICA Watershed, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, and MIT List Visual Arts Center. Rydz received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and is currently Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.