Lydia Schouten

Lydia Schouten (born 1948, Leiden, Netherlands) is an internationally-known Dutch performance and video artist.

[4] In 1984, her work was included in The Luminous Image, an international exhibition of video art at the Stedelijk Museum.

[10] She has received travel grants from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs (1981, 1982)[3] and has been an artist in residence in Curaçao, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and Germany as well as her native Holland.

[13] Her travels to New York, which was originally settled by the Dutch in 1609, have inspired works such as her media installation A Song for Mannahata.

[10] Lydia Schouten has done work for public spaces, such as the Monument voor de Verdronken Dorpen in Zeeland ('Monument to the Drowned Villages') in Colijnsplaat.