Lynthia Edwards

Lynthia Edwards (born 1978, in Alexander City, Alabama) is an American multidisciplinary artist whose collage-based practice explores Black girlhood, memory, Pentecostal upbringing, and the emotional textures of life in the American South. Working across collage, quilting, painting, and mixed media, Edwards examines race, gender, isolation, beauty, and self-fashioning through vivid color, patterned surfaces, and figures that often function as reflections of her younger self.  Edwards studied at the Art Institute of Atlanta, Auburn University of Montgomery, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her work often engages Southern Black life, family memory, faith, and the inner worlds of young Black girls, using collage, paint, quilting, and expressive figuration to consider both the tenderness and constraint of growing up within racialized and gendered expectations. She has also described her practice as rooted in everyday encounters, historical research, and the desire to “glorify black girl magic.”  Her work has been exhibited at Untitled Art Miami Beach, the Gadsden Museum of Art, the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, the Kentuck Art Center, and Richard Beavers Gallery. She has received the Alabama State Council for the Arts Fellow Award, Purchase Awards from the Alabama Art Colony, and “Best of Show” in the Montgomery Art Guild and Regions Bank Exhibition. Edwards lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama