Lydia Okumura

Lydia Okumura (born 1948) is a Brazilian artist known for her geometric abstractions.

Biography

Early life and education Okumura was born in 1948 in São Paulo. She studied at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, graduating in 1973.

In the 1970s she was part of a São Paulo art collective, "Equipe3". Around that time Okumura moved to New York City to attended the Pratt Graphics Center.

Collections Her work is included in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibitions Okumura's practice includes drawings, wall paintings and sculptural installations that play with spatial illusions using geometric abstraction. Okumura's first solo exhibition in the United States was in 2016 at the University at Buffalo.

In 2024, Lydia Okumura's work was included in Every Sound is a Shape of Time a collections-based show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami showcasing an intergenerational group of artists working in a wide varied of media. Lydia Okumura, Corda, Vidro e Prego (2017). Installation shot from the exhibition Pedra no céu - Arte e Arquitetura de Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo