SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS

2024 Lydia Viscardi, Artist-in-Residence: A Visual Narrative, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, NYC

2023 Pack Light, Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC

2021 Then the Morning Comes, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2020 Here and Hereafter, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT

2007 Les Landes, Arts Alliance of Haverstraw, Haverstraw, NY

2004 Selected Works in Oil and Mixed Media, Blue Heron Arts Center, NYC

2002 Lydia Viscardi, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ

2000 Lydia Viscardi, Arts Council of Rockland, Spring Valley, NY

2000 Lydia Viscardi, Rockland County Legislature, New City, NY

TWO AND THREE-PERSON ART EXHIBITIONS

2024 Feria Clandestina, The Camp Gallery at Gold Dust Motel, Miami, FL

2023 The Not so Silent Witnesses: Lydia Viscardi and Rita Valley, Camp Gallery, Westport, CT

Lydia Viscardi, Viktoriya Basina, Nola Romano, AHA Fine Art, NYC

2018 Las Gravitas, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Internal Vision, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY

2008 New Works, The Terrance Joyce Gallery, Greenport, NY

2007 Migration, Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport, CT

2004 Lydia Viscardi, Joan Harmon, Jackie Schatz, Pomona Cultural Center, Pomona NY

1983 Three Artists, Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY

SELECTED GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS

2025 Unfolding Between Walls, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

Asking for a Friend, The Camp Gallery, Miami, FL

Local Color, daphne:art, Bantam, CT

5th Annual Group Show, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

Multiverse, curator, D. Dominick Lombardi, University of MA, Hampton Gallery, Amherst, MA

Altered Logistics: Redux, curator, D. Dominick Lombardi, Murray State University, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, KY

2023 Alternative Realities, Norwalk Art Space, Norwalk, CT

From Alchemy to Numinosity, curator Sydney Jenkins, Ramapo College of NJ, Berrie Center Galleries, Mahwah, NJ

2022 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse, A Room of Our Own, The Camp Gallery, Miami, FL

Imagined Spaces, Inhabited Places, curator Julia Wintner, Eastern CT State University Art Gallery, Willimantic, CT

2021 Ham Sandwich; Viva La Momento Mori; Inaugural Show, Arcilesci Homburg Fine Art, NYC

Love, Devotion, Surrender, Dedication, Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC

2020 35 x 35 Project, Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, Greece

2019 The Big Show: All Animals Welcome, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2018. #Unload: Pick up the Pieces, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

Univ. of Bridgeport and Housatonic Community College Faculty Show, Schelfhaudt Gallery, CT

Monsters, Manchester Community College Art Gallery, Manchester, CT

The Eighties; Valentine, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY

2017 Playground, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NYC

2016 Nasty Women, Institute Library with Nasty Women of CT, New Haven, CT

Crossing Borders, Housatonic Museum of Art, Burt Chernow Galleries, Bridgeport, CT

The BIG small show, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

Child's Play, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Nation IV, Through the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Aesthetic Allusions, Housatonic Museum of Art and Bridgeport City Hall, CT

2015 Reverence for Life, Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT

2014 Seeking Space, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY

One Plus One, University of Bridgeport, Schelfhaudt Gallery, CT

Smackdown II Immersion Salon, Beechwood Arts, Westport, CT

Sideshow Nation II at the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Home Sweet Home, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT

2012 Thick to Thin, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY

AiW Norwalk Art Commission Public Art, Norwalk, CT

2011 Flower (RE) Power, Housatonic Museum of Art, Burt Chernow Galleries, Bridgeport, CT

2009 Art of the Bird, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY

Dem Bones, Dem Bones, (Curator/exhibiting artist) Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan, CT

2008 Journey: Stories My Mother Told Me, Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT

2006 First Look 2006 Emerging Artists Series, Visual Arts Center of NJ, Summit, NJ

Highlight Connecticut, Black Rock Art Center, Bridgeport, CT

Caressing Death (Ribcage), Garnerville Arts Project Warehouse Space, Garnerville, NY

Rage Against the Machine, Spire Studios, Beacon, NY

2005 Red is Everywhere, Rockland Center for the Arts Sculpture Grounds, W. Nyack, NY.

Material Matters: Sculpture, Ceramics, Wood, William Paterson Univ. Power Art Center, Wayne, NJ 2003

2003 Birds II, an invitational, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY

2002 The Birds, An Invitational, Center Gallery at Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ

2001 Contemporary Collage Now, Nexus Gallery, NYC

Getting It Together, Center for Digital Art & Community Artists, Times Square Gallery, NYC

Glue! New Century Artists Gallery, NYC

2000 Faculty Exhibit, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY

1998 -99 Nine Choose Nine, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY

1996 -97 The Multi-Dimensional Shoe Show, Edward Hopper Art Center, Nyack, NY

If the Shoe Fits, FAO Gallery, NYC

1994-95 It’s Love, Rockland Center for the Arts, W. Nyack, NY

1981-83 Graphic Art, Burnside Gallery, Greenport, NY

Closeness and Clash in Art and Life, Terrain Gallery, NYC

New Drawings in America, The Drawing Center, NYC

1976-79 Previously Unseen, The Drawing Center, NYC

Annual Juried Exhibition, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY

SELECTED AWARDS

2024 Artist-in-Residence and Solo Show, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, NYC,

2023 Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship

2008 2nd Place: Journey: Stories My Mother Told Me, Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT, funded by the

National Endowment for the Arts

2006 Creative Achievement in Visual Art, Honors College of William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

2005 First Look Emerging Artists Series, New Jersey Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ

COLLECTIONS

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, NYC

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT

Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, Greece

Eastern Connecticut State University Art Gallery, Willimantic, CT

Private collections throughout the US

EDUCATION

2006 MFA William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

1974 BFA CW Post College, School of Art, LI University, Greenvale, NY

1972-73 Toledo Museum of Art School of Design and University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

1970-72. Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

SELECTED RELATED EMPLOYMENT

2012-20 Quinnipiac University, CT, Adjunct Professor of Studio Art:

2010-20 Housatonic Community College, CT, Adjunct Professor of Studio Art:

2004-11 Ramapo College of N J, Adjunct Professor of Studio Art:

1995-96 2000-02 SUNY Rockland Comm. College, NY, Adjunct Professor of Studio Art:

2013-18 Housatonic Museum of Art, CT, Museum Educator

2016-19 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT, Museum Educator

2013-14 Housatonic Museum of Art, CT, Media Coordinator and Art Collections Manager

2008-11 Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Art Gallery Exhibitions Director and Program Director