Jonny Silver

Artist, filmmaker, Jonny Silver was born in Toronto. He studied art, philosophy and literature at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas (on an athletic scholarship) then returned to Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art & Design where he studied under some of Canada’s most celebrated visual artists. As a student, he won awards for his work in sculpture, installation art and experimental film. His art education included an assistantship with cubist painter, Arthur Langlet (pupil of cubism founder Georges Braque) at Atelier International de Séguret in southern France. Silver had solo shows of his experimental films and video at A Space, Toronto, Ed Video, Guelph, and at the Canadian Embassy, Belgrade, Serbia. His film work was featured in group-shows at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Canada House, London, and the Goethe Institute, Berlin. He followed a filmmaking career starting at the National Film Board of Canada, the producer of his experimental music film, Kubota, then continuing as a freelance director in both the English and French sectors of the Canadian Film/TV industry. He specialized in Crime-TV and Performing Arts Specials. His work took him across Canada, throughout Europe, to Central America and the Middle East...

MFA Ontario College of Art & Design University

Recent:
"Investigating the Perfect Crime"
Open Space Gallery
49 McCaul St, Toronto
17 March 2020 (Thesis Exhibition)
"Return Of The Cubes"
Gallery Installation in partnership with Site Crew featuring Sculpture, Photo Collage and Video premiered at the Bauhaus2digital Gallery in downtown Toronto on 13 October 2017