Miriam Da Silva

Miriam Da Silva was born in Sao Paulo on March 8, 1964.

Upon finishing her secondary education from the Therezinha Sartori school she decided to enroll into the Faculty of Fine Arts of São Paulo. Having successful passed the entrance exam she began studying there in 1983 and received a "License in Visual Arts" in 1986. For two years, from 1987 to 1988, after passing a public competition, she taught art education in two public schools in the town of Maua, in the State of São Paulo.

During this period she also studied classical piano with pianist Helena Scheffel and later with pianist Harley Andry Bleck Gonzalez. At the same time she studied music at the Arts Foundation of São Caetano do Sul and sang in a choir in Santo André city, São Paulo. The choir performed works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven and Villa-Lobos.

In 1989, after meeting the artist and architect Davis Leichsenring at Masp Art Museum of São Paulo, she decided to travel to Europe, eager for new discoveries. Arriving in Geneva she discovered an intense cultural life and an interesting mixture of more than one hundred different cultures. She studied for five years and graduated in French language and literature from the Alliance-Francaise. Later, she ...