Cyd Gottlieb (b. 1989, Ohio, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toledo, Ohio, and her work focuses on creative problem-solving strategies that look to experiential, visual, and interpretive programming methods. From a socially engaged standpoint, she has exhibited artifacts through the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, performed at the ICA/Boston, and contributed to cultural and architectural texts published by Harvard University Press. Recent exhibitions include group shows with Calico (NY), Wavelength Space (TN), Peel Gallery (NC), River House Arts (OH), Akron Soul Train (OH), and Stanley Arts Center (SC), plus a solo show with Gathered Glass (OH).
In January 2023, Cyd traveled to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to dedicate time to book arts as a Winter Residency fellow at Penland School of Craft. In November 2023, she accepted an Emerging Artist award from the Burkholder Project in Lincoln, Nebraska to support her studio practice. Furthermore, Cyd has received multiple grant awards from the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, in conjunction with the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. A self-taught artist, she holds a BA in Hispanic Language and Literatures from Boston University.
Locally, Cyd has designed and instructed expressive arts workshops as a visiting teaching artist for the Thomas M. Wernert Center, a mental health community center for adults in Northwest Ohio. Recently, she has also partnered as a visiting teaching artist with Youth Advocate Programs, which is a community-based alternative to youth incarceration. Presently, Cyd collaborates with Culture Clash Records in Toledo, Ohio.
Cyd’s work is currently available for purchase through the Collector’s Corner section of the Museum Store at the Toledo Museum of Art and through additional channels and project spaces. Browse her webshop for more!