A native of Eastern Kentucky, near Berea, KY, Sydney Hughes moved to Louisville, KY and graduated from the University of Louisville obtaining a Bachelor of the Fine Arts degree in both Graphic Design and Studio 2D Drawing. At the University of Louisville, Hughes simultaneously obtained a minor in Film Studies and Productions.
Hughes’ work “dear cervidae skulls drape from the poplar like front porch chimes“ been featured and Louisville Collective’s Zine Project PRINTED Edition III: Stop Digging! and within University of Louisville’s 2023 issue of the student magazine The White Squirrel, earning a Golden Acorn Award. The work was also showcased at the Outsider Art Museum & Gallery June 2024 show titled “Stop Digging!” organized by PRINTED and at ARTPORTAL for an October 2024 curated show entitled “Bloodbath & Beyond.” Hughes has also received awards for their design from AIGA’s Louisville 100 Show in 2023 and 2024
Hughes is now working full time as an in-house videographer within the healthcare higher education marketing field. Hughes is personally pursuing other new multidisciplinary artistic endeavors and projects with photography, scanography, videography, drawing, and design. The work Hughes has recently created sentimentalizes the mystique, prophetic dreams, folkloric ideas attached, and the fear of identity loss and diminution of Appalachia through various multimedia and interactive pieces. Hughes’ works communicate through visual and aural mediums, all having a quality of being both ephemeral and fleeting. A house falling in on itself is no longer a house, but instead a memory of a house and symbol of something soon forgotten