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ABOUT
Viviane Silvera has exhibited her work for 22 years, most recently at Art Basel Miami, Berlin Art Week, the Edward Hopper House, the Albright Knox, Dahesh, and Masur Museums, and El Museo de la Ciudad - Mexico.
Her videos have been installed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MGM National Harbor, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Mary Washington, The Cube Art Project with Union Bank, 4Culture Gallery in Pioneer Square, Seattle, Altspace VR (Microsoft’s VR Platform), Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre,and Davidson College, among other venues. Her award-winning, hand painted film SEE MEMORY premiered at the Imagine Science Film Festival, is distributed through New Day Films and will make it’s PBS Broadcast Premiere in 2025. Her hand-painted videos have been licensed by McCann Advertising and installed in hotels, universities, and museums.
Silvera has received numerous grants and awards, including a Voice x NYAA Residency, the 2013 Award of Excellence in Painting from the Edward Hopper House, the Chaim Gross, Valerie Delacorte, and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Awards from the National Academy School of Fine Arts, a Fantasy Foundation Grant, and a Newington Cropsey Grant. Her work has been written about in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art Daily, Time Out New York, Gotham Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur and Art Habens Review.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of Penn University, Duke University, Tufts University, Vassar College, Davidson College, Vanderbilt University, the Ziff Davis Corporate Collection, The Clinton Presidential Library & Museum and Tribeca Flashpoint Media Academy. Silvera’s outdoor sculpture “The Fault” is permanently installed in a courtyard at Vanderbilt University, where she collaborated with landscape designers, architects, and engineers to realize her design.
She is currently at work on “The Science Behind See Memory,” premiering on PBS in 2025 along with her original film SEE MEMORY.
Silvera earned a BS from Tufts University in Political Science and Psychology and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Brazil. Presently based in New York City with her family. She is Founder and Director of On Art.
