The Italian-Dutch artist Lidia Palumbi was born in Pescara in 1952. After she lived in Milan and Florence in the nineteen-seventies, she moved to the Netherlands. She took her first sculpture classes in Rotterdam in 1982 and thereafter in Toronto. Back in Holland, she studied sculpture and printmaking at the Minerva Academy of Arts in Groningen and graduated in 1989 with a degree in sculpture. She worked in Groningen and 's-Hertogenbosch exhibiting in various museums and galleries in Holland, Italy, England and Germany. Since 2018 she has returned to Italy and lives and works between Milan and the Netherlands.

Her Italian cultural background and the influence of the Northern school of thought merged together in the development of a sculptural language which unites essentiality of form with strong emotional content.

Main exhibitions, a selection:
2024 Presenze, Galleria Antonio Battaglia, Milan *
2019 Acht beeldvormers, Galerie Kuub, Utrecht, the Netherlands        
2019 Galerie Arti Capelli, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
2017 100 Years NKvB Dutch Sculptors, The Hague, the Netherlands
2013 Galerie Arti Capelli, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands **
2013 Ernst & Young, The Hague, the Netherlands
2012 Noli Tangere, Castel dell'Ovo, Sala delle Prigioni, Naples *
2012 Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition 2012, London
2011 Habitat del Silenzio, Museo della Marsica, Celano, Italy *
2011 An image as a symbol, NKvB, Zorgvlied, Amsterdam
2011 Beelden, Galerie Kokon, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2010 Spazi e Conflitti, Museo D'Annunzio, Pescara, Italy *
2010 voorBeelden II, XPO/WGKunst, Amsterdam
2009 Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition 2009, London
2007 Lidia Palumbi - Paul van Dijk, Museo Sperimentale D'arte Contemporanea, L'Aquila **    
2006 Galerie Achter de Kan, 's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
2004 NBKS, Breda, the Netherlands *                                                               
2003 Winterreis, Galerie Nikh, Tilburg, the Netherlands*        
1999 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam **
1999 Drents Museum, Assen, the Netherlands
1999 Galerie Frontaal, Appingedam, the Netherlands*
1997 Art Multiple, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997 Gasunie, Groningen, the Netherlands
1997 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam **
1996 Lidia Palumbi, Galerie Sign, Groningen, the Netherlands *
1993 Lidia Palumbi ruimtelijk werk, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, the Netherlands *
*solo **duo    

Publications and reviews, a selection:
Beeldvormers in Kuub, Beelden Magazine, Peke Hofman, April 2019
Palumbi, arte in difesa della dignità umana, Daniela Ricci, Il Mattino, September 2012
Noli Tangere, artist's own publication, Eindhoven, August 2012
Spazi&Conflitti, Segno Magazine, summer 2010, Jorien Rooymans, 2010
I Bronzi della Memoria, Lidia Palumbi – Paul van Dijk, catalogue, Gino Calenda, 2007
“Winterreis in beeld" , R. Hendriquez, Brabants Dagblad, February 2003         
“Tedere verstilling" H. Hekkema, Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, June 1996        
Piazza, F. Visser, Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, June 1993                         
De Piazza als huiskamer, Frans Franssen, De Agenda, May 1993                    

Works in public and private collections:
Gasunie, Groningen, the Netherlands
Museum De Buitenplaats, Eelde, the Netherlands
Faxx, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Centre Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium
Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, the Netherlands
Private collections in Holland, Germany and Italy.