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Viviane Silvera was born in Hong Kong and was raised in both Hong Kong and Brazil before
moving to New York City at the age of fifteen. After earning her BA from Tufts University,
Viviane returned to New York City where she received her MFA from the New York Academy of
Art.
While in art school she received numerous awards and scholarships including the Chaim Gross
Scholarship, the Valerie Delacorte Scholarship and the Harriet Whitney Frishmuth travel award.
She has been the recipient of grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Newington-
Cropsey Foundation.
Viviane is currently represented by 511 Gallery in New York City and Lake Placid where she
has had several solo exhibitions. She has also exhibited at the Museo de la Cuidad-Mexico, the
Albright Knox Gallery and the Dahesh Museum.
Viviane’s work can be seen in the Clinton Presidential Center art collection in Little Rock, AR,
The Tullman Collection at Flashpoint Media Academy in Chicago IL and in Vanderbilt University’
s outdoor bronze sculpture collection in Nashville, TN.
Her work is included in many private collections and has been featured in the Wall Street
Journal, Gotham magazine, Time Out New York, The NY Press, American Artist and Sculpture
Review magazines as well as in various catalogs and papers.
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Solo Exhibitions
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2011
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511 Gallery at Space B, Therapy, NY, NY
511 Gallery at the cell, Praying Hands , NY, NY
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2008
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Ratio Gallery, "Borrowed Memory", Bellport, NY
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2005
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511 Gallery, "Everyday Saints", NYC, NY
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2004
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Gallery Boreas, "Praying Hands", Williamsburg, NY
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Group Exhibitions
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2011
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Sloan Fine Art, “Single Fare” , NY, NY
511 Gallery, “Sur real”, NY, NY
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2010
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The New York Academy of Art, “XXX”, NY. NY
511 Gallery, “Wall Works”, Lake Placid, NY
Mexico City-Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, “Draw”, Curated by Erik Foss and
Curse Mackey , Special Guest Curator: Miguel Calderon Museum Director:
Cristina Faesler, Mexico City, Mexico
Fuse Gallery, “Remnants”, Curated by Lisa Lebofsky and Michelle Doll, NYC, NY
511 Gallery, “The Question of Mountains”, Lake Placid, NY
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2009
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Hudson County Arts Annual, "Metropolitan Memories", curator Mara Miller, Jersey
City, NJ
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511 Gallery, "Wall Works", drawings by Viviane Silvera and Mary Reilly, NYC, NY
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2008
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511 Gallery, "Works on Paper", NYC, NY
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2007
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Ratio Gallery, "Ever Changing Visions of Real", Bellport, NY
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2006
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511 Gallery, "Drawing Now", NYC, NY
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Gallery Boreas, NYC, NY
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2005
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International Art Fair 2005, with Gallery Boreas, Cologne, Germany
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Phillips de Pury, "Take Home a Nude", NYC, NY
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Ratio Gallery, "Contemporary Realism", Bellport, NY
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2004
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Eisenhauer Galleries, "Hands", Visiting Exhibition, Hilton Hotel, NY
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Gallery Boreas Satellite, "Brooklyn Preview", Lenox, MA
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Luxe Gallery, "drawn", New York, NY
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2003
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Milton J.Weill Art Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, The Ninety-Second Street Y, NYC, NY
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2002
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Milton J.Weill Art Gallery, Faculty Exhibition, The Ninety-Second Street Y, NYC, NY
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Fairleigh Dickinson University, University College Art Gallery, Invitational,
Teaneck, NJ
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Bronx River Art Center, "Physical Units: Fragments of the Human Form", Curator:
Bronx, NY
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Tribeca Hall, "Convergence", NYAA Alumni, NYC, NY
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Kentler International Drawing Space, Small Works Show, Red Hook, NY
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Bronx River Art Gallery, 911 Show, Bronx, NY
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2001
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Eyebeam, NY Panel Project, NYC, NY
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Kentler International Drawing Space, 911 Show, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
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Creative Arts Workshop, Juried, Narration:Emblem and Sequence in
Contemporary Art, Curator: Robert Taplin, New Haven, CT
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2000
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Sarratt Gallery, "Drawings for The Fault", Nashville, TN
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New York Academy of Art, MFA Exhibition, NYC, NY
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1999
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Dahesh Museum," A New Generation", NYC, NY
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1998
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National Arts Club, Juried, Catherine Lorrilard Wolfe, NYC, NY
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National Sculpture Society, Juried, Annual Exhibition, (catalog) , NYC, NY
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Gordon College, Invitational, VSC Artists, Wenham, MA
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National Academy of Design Museum, Juried, NYC, NY
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Sundance Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
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1997
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National Sculpture Society, Juried, Annual Exhibition, (catalog) , NYC, NY
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Sundance Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
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Flat Files
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2004
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Drawing Center, Artists' Slide Registry, NYC, NY
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Momenta Art, Artist's Slide Registry, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
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Awards and Grants
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Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Garden of Great Ideas, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
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Sculpture Grant, National Sculpture Society, NYC, NY
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Fantasy Foundation Grant, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, NY
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VSC Artist's Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
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Valerie Delacorte Scholarship, National Academy of Design, NYC, NY
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Chaim Gross Scholarship, National Academy of Design, NYC, NY
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Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Travel Award, National Academy of Design, NYC, NY
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Chaim Gross Scholarship, The National Academy of Design, NYC, NY
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Artist Residencies
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Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 1997
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Public Collections
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Abright-Knox Collector's Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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The Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, AK
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
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Bibliography
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GOTHAM magazine, “Therapy” by Michele Brown, September 22, 2011
GOTHAM magazine, “Bill Clinton Like You’ve Never Seen Him” by Michele Brown,
March 21, 2011
THE DRAW BOOK, to commemorate the DRAW exhibition at Museo de la Ciudad
de Mexico, 2010
ARTINFO.COM, The AI Eye: Editor’s Picks of Art, August 23rd, 2006
Rossi, Lisa, WALL STREET JOURNAL, “Everyday Saints” , Tuesday June 14th
2005
Art Listings, TIME OUT NY, June 16-22 2005
Morton, Julia, NY PRESS, “Clinton (Praying Hands)”, August 25th 2004
Y’IDEOT ARANOT, August 25th 2004
BERKSHIRE EAGLE, July 27th 2004
EAST HAMPTON STAR, August 2003
William Zimmer, THE NEW YORK TIMES, “ART; Creative Works With a Political
Edge”, June 24, 2001
VANDERBILT REGISTRER, December 2000
Moss, Lynn, AMERICAN ARTIST, “Academics Steal the Show” October 1999
Vanderbilt Register, October 1999
SCULPTURE REVIEW, Spring 1998
SCULPTURE REVIEW, Fall 1998
NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY, Exhibition Catalogue, Annual Show, 1998
SCULPTURE REVIEW, Fall, 1997
NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY, Exhibition CatalogueAnnual Show, 1996
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