About: Lydia Emily

Lydia Emily, aka Lydia emily Archibald, is a street artist, muralist, and oil painter. Her signature style is realistic oil portraits with political and current themes. Her portraits are always painted on the Sunday New York Times sealed to canvas. She then translates her oil paintings into large murals in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Lydia Emily is considered one of few prominent and prolific female street artists in a predominantly male field. In 2012 she founded The Karma Underground or TKU, a not for profit organization that advocates for a free Tibet.