Lydia Nobles is a New York-based conceptual artist known for her ongoing series As I Sit Waiting, where she transforms functional forms like chairs into vessels for shared vulnerability and endurance. This series, a fiscally sponsored project by the New York Foundation for the Arts, was recently awarded the 2025 NYSCA Grant for Individual Artists. Nobles’ solo exhibitions include KAPOW (2024), SPRING/BREAK Art Fair (2023), Field Projects, and Ross-Sutton Gallery (2022). On the first anniversary of Roe v. Wade’s overturn, two of her sculptures were included in 50 Years Since Roe at the Brooklyn Museum. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, and others, and recognized by IMPULSE, ArtNet News, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Nobles holds an MFA from Parsons School of Art and Design and founded BolsterArts, providing free studio space to artists in New York’s Chinatown.
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