Regina Silveira
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Biography
Regina Silveira (b.1939) was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and lives in São Paulo. Throughout more than four decades, Silveira, a critical figure in Brazilian conceptual art, has investigated the tension between movement and spatial perspective, threading political meaning into installations that respond to specific sites. In the 1950s she began her artistic training under the tutelage of expressionist Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, studying lithography and woodcut, as well as painting. Renowned for her parodic explorations of space through geometric constructs, Silveiraʼs work is celebrated for both its conceptual rigor and formal impact.
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.
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Exhibitions
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Hassan Sharif and Regina Silveira
Between Perception and the World 10 Dec 2021 - 27 Feb 2022 GermantownAlexander Gray Associates, Germantown presented Between Perception and the World, a two-person exhibition of work by Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) and Regina Silveira (b.1939). Placing these two artists in dialogue, the...Read more -
South South
26 Feb - 11 Apr 2021 GermantownAlexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents South South, an exhibition that examines poetics of space and orientation in works by five Gallery artists: Ricardo Brey, Luis Camnitzer, Melvin Edwards, Regina Silveira,...Read more -
Regina Silveira
Quimera 23 Nov - 22 Dec 2019 GermantownAlder & Co., 222 Main Street, Germantown NY 12526 Hours: Friday – Sunday 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Quimera is described by the artist as a “visual paradox” in that...Read more -
Regina Silveira
Unrealized / Não feito 6 Jun - 26 Jul 2019 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of ten unrealized projects by multidisciplinary artist Regina Silveira . Emphasizing Silveira’s ongoing formal experimentation and conceptual interventions in architecture, the works on view...Read more -
Regina Silveira
18 Feb - 26 Mar 2016 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of work by multimedia artist Regina Silveira. The works on view emphasize Silveira’s use of graphic visual language through accumulation and skewed perspective to...Read more -
Passage
29 Oct - 12 Dec 2015 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates presented Passage, an exhibition featuring work by Ai Weiwei, Siah Armajani, Luis Camnitzer, Valie Export, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Mona Hatoum, Robert Longo, Ana Mendieta, Dennis Oppenheim, Regina Silveira,...Read more -
Regina Silveira
5 Jun - 26 Jul 2013 New YorkSpotlighting recent and historic works, this third exhibition at the Gallery traced Regina Silveira’s experimentation with a variety of graphic media investigating political themes and formal practice. Silveira began her...Read more -
Regina Silveira
26 May - 29 Jul 2011 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates presented the Gallery’s second exhibition with the Brazilian artist, Regina Silveira. Since the 1960s, Silveira’s work has defied genre, moving between forms of installation, printmaking, sculpture and...Read more -
Regina Silveira
28 Oct - 19 Dec 2009 New YorkAlexander Gray Associates Alexander Gray Associates was pleased to announce Regina Silveira’s first exhibition with the Gallery. A key influencer in the development of Latin American contemporary art, Silveira has...Read more
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Public Collections
Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Canada
Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Dragão do Mar Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Inhotim, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea (ICC), São Paulo, Brazil
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Museo de Arte del Banco de La Republica, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
Pinacoteca Barão de Santo Ângelo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
Pinacoteca Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil
SESC, São Paulo, Brazil
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Jaffa, Israel
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Videos
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News / Events
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Teresa Burga and Regina Silveira
Center for Book Arts October 6, 2023Teresa Burga and Regina Silveira are included in a group exhibition, Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990 at the Center for Book Arts, New York.
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Regina Silveira
BIENALSUR 2023 July 1, 2023Regina Silveira among participating artists in the BIENALSUR 2023 at MAR, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
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Regina Silveira
Mundo Untref June 22, 2023Regina Silveira's upcoming installation at BIENALSUR 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary of the Province of Buenos Aires in Mar del Plata mentioned in Mundo Retraf.
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Regina Silveira
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de São Paulo August 28, 2021Regina SIlveira's one-person exhibition Outros Paradoxos at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de São Paulo.
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Articles / Reviews