Lydia Moyer came to UVA in 2006 after completing an MFA in studio practice at UNC Chapel Hill in 2005. Prior to beginning her graduate studies, she worked both in commercial video post-production in New York City and taught community documentary at Appalshop, Inc., a nationally known media center in Appalachian Kentucky. She received her BFA from the New York State School of Art and Design at Alfred in 1999.

Professor Moyer works between print and video. Her work has been shown widely in festivals and galleries including The European Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany; The Impakt Festival in Utrecht, the Netherlands; video-dumbo in Brooklyn; the PDX Festival in Portland, Oregon; the Black Maria Festival in Jersey City; Printed Matter in New York City and the Center for Book and Paper at Columbia College in Chicago.