Lydia Crespo C.V.
EDUCATION
2008-10 B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
2004-08 St. Louis Community Collage atFlorissant Valley Community (STLCCFV), St. Louis, MO
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 One of A Kind Chicago
2018 Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago, IL
Artists & Fleas, New York, NY
2017 Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA, New York,
NY, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA
Push and Pull, Florissant Valley Contemporary Art Gallery, St.
Louis, MO (Guest Lecturer).
Artists & Fleas, New York, NY
2016 Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA, New York,
NY
Dose Market, River East Art Center, Chicago IL
2015 Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA
Elmhurst Art In the Park, Elmhurst, IL
Dose Market, River East Art Center, Chicago IL
2014 Renegade Craft Fair, Chicago, IL
Elmhurst Art In the Park, Elmhurst, IL
Dose Market, River East Art Center, Chicago IL
2013 Palisade, R & D Gallery, Chicago, IL
Elmhurst Art In the Park, Elmhurst, IL
Our bodies wrapped around our souls, cities wrapped around
those, Dove Tail, Chicago, IL
2012 Time/Space 2000, R & D Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dose Market, River East Art Center, Chicago IL
Streeterville Art Market, Lurie Research Center, Chicago IL
2011 Built, Chicago, IL
100 Canvases for a Better World, The Silver Room, Chicago, IL
Themis, St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Unavailable: There Will Be Tears, Packer School Gallery, Chicago
IL
YWCA Journal Project, Florissant Valley Contemporary Art
Gallery, St. Louis, MO
The Laborer,Frei Designs, Chicago, IL (SOLO)
Agent for Change, GYA, St. Louis, MO
Women & Photography: Mirror Image, Florissant Valley
Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
The American Dream: A Juxtaposition, Woman Made Gallery,
Chicago IL (WCA Traveling)
Journal Project,Reflection Gallery at Finlandia University,
Hancock, MI
2010 Co-op Journal Show,School of the Art Institute- Flaxman
Library, Chicago, IL
Pilson’s 40thOpen House,Chicago, IL
Gold Coast Art Fair, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
SAIC Under Graduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Woman In Progress,Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO
Contemporary Woman Artist XV Art as Activism,Foundry Art
Center, St. Charles, MO
From the Center,Woman Made Gallery and WCA Catalog,
Chicago, IL
2009 Año Viejo, Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL
Made By Hand Crossroads, Gallery, St. Charles, MO
Cultural Exchange Art Exhibition Tour, Chen Ching-Jung Art
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Here Take This! What We Want Is Free, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
Cultural Exchange Art Exhibition Tour, National Taiwan Craft
Institute and the Chao-tun Township, Nan-tou, Taiwan
Sculpture as Medicine: Fetishes, Physiological Spaces, and
Healing Actions, International Museum of Surgical Science,
Chicago, IL
Hirsute Affair, Gallery X, Chicago, IL
Patterns and Pixels, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Back By Popular Demand, Frisco Café, St. Louis MO
1 + 1 = 3, St. Peters Community and Arts Center, St. Peters,
MO
Varsity Art Show, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
The AIDS Project, Marshall Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
2007 Katrina Diaries, Maryville University Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Florissant Valley Art Show, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
Florissant Valley Art Show, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO
Transforming Identity, Third Floor Gallery, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2014 “Best of Chicago”, Chicago Magazine
2010 James Nelson Raymond BFA Fellowship Recipient
SAICMerit Scholarship Recipient
2009 SAICMerit Scholarship Recipient
2008 SAICMerit Scholarship Recipient
Award of Excellence, Pixels and Patters, Art St. Louis - Her
Name Shall Be
League for Innovation recipient, Hand Mixer from The Hair
Series
Awarded Ox-Bow Scholarship from STLCC FV to study at the
Ox-Bow School of Art
Representative of STLCC-FV in the Varsity Art Show at Art St.
Louis, St. Louis MO
2007 Second Place, Transforming Identity, 4thFloor Gallery - Paper
Doll Series
2006 Florissant Valley Art Show, Gallery 210, Awarded Best in Show
- Age 9
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Brockman, Lydia; Notes on Textile Analysisas published in “Saltillo Sarapes, A Survey: 1850-1920" published by McCormick Gallery and TMG Projects, Chicago, IL
2010 Brockman, Lydia; Turkey Red Journal, “Mordents and Modifiers” Vol. 16 Issue 1, 2011
BIBLIOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY/PODCAST
2019
Dana Dean, Show Me St. Louis, St. Charles designer known for modernized tie dye look
Holthhaus, Hanna, St. Louis Post-Dispatch”Artists Finds Passion in Dyeing”.
Amanda Woytus, Design STL, Desings to Dye For.
2018
Hoke, Naomi, VoyageChicago.com,“Meet Lydia Crespo of Argaman&Defiance”.
Hruby, Amelia, Go Forth Podcast, “Collaboration Over Competition”, Season 3, Episode 1.
Monzures, Jane, Creative Living, “Special Guest, Lydia Crespo”, Season 1, Episode 3
Monzures, Jane, Craft Room Crash, “Onion Skins”.
2017
Carlson, Susan, NBC Chicago, “One of Kind Holiday Show”.
Hruby, Amelia, Go Forth Podcast, “Hustle”,Season 2, Episode 11
Belaval, Ana, WGN Chicago, “Around Town: Milk Handmade Chicago”.
2016
Dampier, Cindy, Chicago Tribune Magazine, “16 Things We Love”, p. 32 December 2016
Metzger, Elise and Olsen, Brita, MarthaStewart.com, “A Modern Tablescape with Vintage Touches”.
2014
Lovejoy, Megan, Chicago Magazine, “Best of Chicago: Best of Etsy”, p.89 August 2014
2013
Francis, April, My Fox Chicago, “Dose Market Sunday in Wicker Park”
Bazer Gina, Boers Carly, Fishman Elly, Herman Jessica, Putnam Seth; Chicago Magazine,“Chicago Gift Guide 2013”, p.105 December 2013
Berg, Jenny; RackedChicago.com,“Your Etsy Gift Guide”.
Berg, Jenny; Racked Chicago.com, “Etsy Chicago: Is It a Local Business?”
2012
My Fox Chicago, “Mother’s Day Gift Guide”.
2011
Aeh, Kevin; Time Out Chicago, “Spring Clothing Shopping in Chicago”.
2008
Mace, Allyson; The Daily Sauce,“Repeat Offenders”,p.6 June 2008.
Beall, Dickson; West End Word, “Uneven Show Provides Opportunity to See Great Art”.
Voyager magazine; Hand Mixer, from the Hair Series, p.32 April, 2008.