Ursula von Rydingsvard (née Karoliszyn;[1] born 1942) is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

[2] Von Rydingsvard was born in Deensen, Germany in 1942 to a Polish mother and Ukrainian father.

[3] In 1959, through the U.S. Marshall Plan and with the assistance of Catholic agencies, her family of peasant farmers boarded a ship to the United States where they eventually settled in Plainville, Connecticut.

[4] In the late 1970s, she was part of NYC's Cultural Council Foundation Artists' Project, which was funded under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA).

Art: Ursula von Rydingsvard was the outdoor solo exhibition presented at Madison Square Park in 2006.