viviane silvera

Viviane Silvera is a painter and filmmaker whose work bridges the tactile, durational language of painting with the narrative power of moving image. Drawing on memory as both subject and material, her films transform sequences of hand-painted frames into immersive explorations of how we carry, reconstruct, and reimagine the past.

Trained in sculpture at the New York Academy of Art, Silvera brings an interdisciplinary lens to her work, rooted in studio practice, neuroscience, and narrative storytelling. Her PBS film See Memory, composed of more than 30,000 individually hand-painted frames, explores reconstructive memory, trauma, imagination, and healing. The film received the 2025 Telly Award for 2D Animation and has been nominated for three New York Emmy Awards, including Health/Medical Documentary, Graphic Arts, and Director.

Silvera’s work has been presented at institutions including Art Basel Miami, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Edward Hopper House Museum, the Fralin Museum of Art, UCLA Semel Institute, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she served as Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, the Center for Healthy Minds, and MUSE. Her work is held in the permanent collections of universities and museums including Vanderbilt, Penn, Duke, Tufts, Vassar, and the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum.

Her upcoming projects continue to investigate memory, testimony, trauma, and cultural inheritance through painting, film, projection, and public dialogue. See Memory will be featured in the Honolulu Museum of Art’s NeuroArts exhibition in 2026.

Viviane Silvera presents her work at the intersection of painting, film, neuroscience, memory, and public dialogue.

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