Lidya Buzio

Lidya Buzio (1948 – September 30, 2014) was an Uruguayan-born American ceramist.

Born in Montevideo, Buzio studied with artists of the Taller Torres-Garcia in that city before moving to New York City in 1971; in the 1990s she moved again, to the North Fork of Long Island.[1] She crafted mainly burnished black pots onto which she would paint scenes of New York rooftops.[2]

An example of Buzio's work is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum;[3] other museums with pieces in their collections include the Arizona State University Art Museum; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Brooklyn Museum; the Everson Museum of Art; the Hallmark Art Collection; the Honolulu Academy of Art; the Long Beach Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; the National Museum of History; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; the Racine Art Museum; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; the Spencer Museum of Art; the University of Iowa Museum of Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[4]

Buzio died of cancer at her home in Greenport, Long Island, aged 65 and survived by her husband, sister and two brothers.[1]