Lydia Reinhold was born in Belgium and settled in Portugal in 1976, although she has lived abroad for extended periods of time. She graduated in Romance Philology from the University of Brussels and attended several art institutions in Brussels, as well as the Ottawa School of Art and ARCO in Lisbon, where she also studied printmaking. Between 1994 and 2003, she collaborated with various Portuguese museums and institutions such as the Museum of Ancient Art, Tile Museum, Chiado Museum, Costume Museum, Conímbriga Museum, Soares dos Reis Museum, as well as the CCB (Belém Cultural Center) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, creating silk works inspired by the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions of these institutions. She was also invited to present a collection of one hundred works for the Pavilion of Portugal at the Lisbon World Exposition (EXPO 98). Among her most recent exhibitions, in 2010 she had a solo exhibition at the Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. In 2011, she participated in the collective exhibition PLAY at the Textile Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. That same year, she also took part in the Portuguese Brazilian Festival Art Exhibition in Manhattan. And in 2012, she was part of the collective exhibition Women: Perpectives Realizing at One Gallery in Newark, NJ.