Vanessa da Silva was born in São Paulo, Brazil; she lives and works in London. She holds an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BFA in Product Design from FAAP Faculty of Fine Art, São Paulo, Brazil.
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Sculpture Park Commission, Muamba Groves, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Vertical Zen, solo exhibition at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland
Dominó, curated by Camila Bechelany, Casa da Luz, São Paulo
Antifascismo Tropical, curated by Pablo León de la Barra, White Cubicle, London
2018
This Future Is Unthinkable, Yet Here We Are Thinking It, curated by Juliette Desorgues, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels
Artworks Open curated by Tai Shani and Emma Talbot, Barbican Arts Trust
ARCO Lisbon, Opening section curated by João Laia
I Am He As You Are She As You Are Me, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, House of Egorn, Berlin
That Same Far Place, Chezkit, Pantin
2017
Stranger than Paradise, solo exhibition at StudioRCA Riverlight, London Herland, Bosse & Baum, London
Seamless Territories, Blyth Gallery, London
With Institutions Like This…, curated by Victor Wang, The Averard Hotel, London
2012
Fur, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, White Cubicle, London
Performances: Mu-amba Gro-ve, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal (2019)
The Up-Risers, Kunstraum, London (2019)
Muamba Grove (2018) Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Stranger than Paradise (2018) StudioRCA Riverlight, London
Resistance’s Flow (2017) Royal College of Art, London
Vanessa was shortlisted for the VIA Arts Prize, London (2018), in 2017 she was selected by Richard Wentworth for the Almacantar Studio Award and she was awarded the Fall Residency Program at Ox-Bow, USA.
In 2019 Vanessa was an artist in residency at Pivô Research, São Paulo, Brazil and in 2017 in residence at Ox-Bow, Fall residency programme, Saugatuck, USA
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