viviane silvera

Painter & Filmmaker

2026 New York Emmy Award Winner — Directing

Viviane Silvera is a New York–based painter and Emmy Award–winning filmmaker whose work explores memory, identity, and the relationship between painting and moving image.

Working across original paintings, hand-painted animation, documentary, and immersive installations, she creates visual worlds in which memories dissolve, re-form, and take on new meaning.

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“Silvera has created a thoroughly original, physical analog to memory reconsolidation.”

— Harper Kincaid, Whitehot Magazine

Viviane Silvera is a New York Emmy Award–winning painter and filmmaker whose work explores memory, identity, trauma, and the relationship between painting and moving image.

Working across painting, hand-painted animation, documentary, and installation, Silvera creates visual worlds in which images dissolve, transform, and reassemble—reflecting the fluid and reconstructive nature of memory.

Her PBS documentary SEE MEMORY, created from more than 30,000 individually hand-painted frames, won the 2026 NY Emmy Award for Directing, received three Emmy nominations, and earned the 2025 Telly Award for 2D Animation.

Silvera's work has been exhibited and presented internationally at institutions including the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Edward Hopper House Museum, and the Chazen Museum of Art. Her work is represented in institutional and private collections, including the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum and Vanderbilt University.

She is currently developing new paintings and films exploring memory, history, and cultural inheritance.

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

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