ABOUT
Viviane Silvera is a painter and filmmaker whose work explores memory, trauma, and transformation through hand-painted animation and psychologically driven visual storytelling. She won the 2025 Telly Award for her hand-painted animation. Over the past two decades, her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Art Basel Miami, Berlin Art Week, the Edward Hopper House, the Albright-Knox, the Dahesh Museum, Masur Museum, and El Museo de la Ciudad (Mexico).
Her moving image work has been installed at institutions such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MGM National Harbor, Sarah Lawrence College, The Cube Art Project, 4Culture Gallery, Altspace VR (Microsoft), and Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater. Her acclaimed hand-painted film See Memory—crafted from 30,000 individually painted frames—premiered at the Imagine Science Film Festival, is distributed by New Day Films, and made its PBS broadcast debut in 2025. The film was awarded a 2025 Bronze Telly Award for 2D Animation, and her videos have also been licensed by McCann Advertising and installed in universities, museums, and boutique hotels around the world.
Silvera has received numerous awards, including a Telly Ward, Voice x NYAA Residency, the Award of Excellence in Painting from the Edward Hopper House (juried by Mass MoCA senior curator Susan Cross), and grants from the Fantasy Foundation and Newington-Cropsey Foundation. Her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art Daily, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Time Out New York.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of Tufts, Duke, Penn, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Davidson College, the Ziff Davis Corporate Collection, the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, and others. Her outdoor sculpture The Fault is permanently installed at Vanderbilt University.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Brazil, Silvera holds a B.S. in Political Science and Psychology from Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She lives in New York City with her family and is the Founder and Director of On Art, a platform for creative public engagement at the intersection of art, storytelling and science.
