Revival by Nydia Blas, 2021

Nydia Blas is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a B.S. from Ithaca College, and received her M.F.A. from Syracuse University in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She also works as a freelance photographer for clients such at The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.

Nydia uses photography, collage, video, and books to address matters of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. She delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance, value, and power and uses her work to create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens. The result is an environment that is dependent upon the belief that in order to maintain resiliency, a magical outlook is necessary. In this space, props function as extensions of the body, costumes as markers of identity, and gestures/actions reveal the performance, celebration, discovery and confrontation involved in reclaiming one's body for their own exploration, discovery and understanding.

She has completed artist residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her work has been featured in the book Mfon: A Journal of Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, The Huffington Post, Dazed and Confused Magazine, Strange Fire Collective, Refinery29, Hyperallergic, PDN, Fotografia Magazine, and more.

Design by Caleb Cain Marcus | Luminosity Lab

7 x 9.5” vertical, softcover
48 pages
First Edition, limited to 450 copies

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COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum of Art
British Library
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cornell University
Getty Center
Griffin Museum
Hampshire College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Mesa Community College
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Morris Museum of Art
Pratt Institute
Santa Monica College
Schomburg Center / New York Public Library
Scripps College
Toronto Metropolitan University
University of Arkansas
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Oregon
Virginia Commonwealth University