Regina Silveira

During the 1970s she experimented with printmaking and video, engaging with the dynamic developments of the Brazilian art world and the country’s politics at a time of military repression. Throughout her career, she has investigated the representation of reality, and the meaning of visual imagery. Her artistic vocabulary includes various methods of perspectival projection, including skiagraphia (the study of shadows) and the appropriation of shadows of ordinary objects to create duality and tension. Silveira is particularly interested in the paradoxical relationship between presence and absence, a notion that she has examined by incorporating tracks and foot imprints into her visual vocabulary. For Silveira, printmaking is an open field for graphic experimentation that also includes video, sculpture, and spacial interventions of architectural proportions.

Silveira has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the Americas, including one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo (MAC USP), Brazil (2022); Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Pavilion Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2019); Museu Brasileiro de Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil (2015); Museu Chácara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2015); Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2014); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2012); Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (2009); Køs Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Koge, Denmark (2009); Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (2008); Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia (2007); Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2005); and Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil (2004), among others. Her work is represented in public collections internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Miami Art Museum, FL; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Museo Nacional Centro de Arts Reina Sofia, Spain; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil; and Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others. Silveira received the Prêmio Governador do Estado de São Paulo and the MASP–Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Award for Career, accompanied by an exhibition in 2013, and the Brazilian Art Critics Association gave her the Award for Life and Work in 2012.

Regina Silveira is also represented by Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil.