Viviane Silvera is a painter and filmmaker whose work bridges the tactile, durational nature of painting with the narrative potential of moving image. Drawing on memory as material, her recent films translate sequences of hand-painted frames into immersive explorations of how we carry and transform our past.
Trained in sculpture (MFA, New York Academy of Art), Silvera brings a deeply interdisciplinary lens to her work—rooted in studio practice, neuroscience, and narrative storytelling. Her acclaimed film SEE MEMORY—composed of more than 30,000 individually hand-painted frames—received the 2025 Telly Award for 2D Animation and is now streaming on PBS.org and airing nationwide on PBS.
Silvera’s work has been exhibited at institutions including Art Basel Miami, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Edward Hopper House-Museum, and is held in the permanent collections of universities and museums such as Penn, Duke, Tufts, Vassar, and the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. She has upcoming presentations at the Fralin Museum, The Chazen Museum and the Honolulu Museum of Art. In April 2026, she will serve as an Artist in Residence at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, an interdisciplinary research institute bridging neuroscience, psychology, and the arts.
