Lydia Pettit American, b. 1991

Lydia Pettit (b. 1991) was born in Maryland in 1991 and graduated from the city’s Institute College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and photography in 2014. The same year, she and her partner founded Platform Arts Center in Baltimore, which supported young, regional and low-income artists in two ways. One was through affordable studio space, and the other was through a gallery that Pettit and her partner ran. In 2017, they closed the gallery – and Pettit turned her attention to her own practice. She moved to London, where she received her Master of Arts at the Royal College of Art in 2020. Today, Pettit works and lives in East London’s Bow area.