Silvia Poloto

“Silvia Poloto, a talented and prolific Brazilian-born mixed-media artist, self-taught and inner directed, is not a product of America’s art higher-education system, she is an artist committed, almost defiantly, to self-expression and emotion.

Poloto, who immigrated to California in the early nineties as a young electrical engineer and discovered her knack for visual communication almost by chance, possesses not only a fearless openness to stimuli and ideas, but also the visual imagination and instincts to refine the daily chaos into an ordered esthetic beauty.

Pursuing her art education independently, she picked up metalworking, painting and photographic skills as she needed them —“Nothing could stop me,” she says. She remembers somewhat wryly, however, that after welding metal sculptures out of creative compulsion, she discovered a book on Abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith, and in it, her unknown artistic ancestors.

That slight reinvention of the wheel aside, however, Poloto’s career has been extremely successful. Her sculpture, paintings and assemblages that have been exhibited in United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Jordan, Romania, China, as well as the...

M.B.A. in Administration with specialization in Marketing Resources,
Getulio Vargas Foundation, Sao Paulo, Brazil
B. S. Electrical Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Selected Exhibitions

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Gallery 555, Oakland, CA
California Palace of the Legion of Honor Residency and Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Arts Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
United Nations, New York City, NY
Scope New York, New York City, NY
Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Scope Miami, Miami, FL
Etra Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL
Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
Soprafina Gallery, Chicago, MA
Ogilvie Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fairmount Gallery, Dallas, TX
Dubai International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Dubai, UAE
Maiden Tower, Baku, Azerbaijan
Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Hong Kong International Biennial, Hong Kong, Republic of China
Qatar Visual Art Center, Doha, Qatar
Dar Al Landa Gallery, Amman, Jordan
International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Amman, Jordan
International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Baku, Azerbaijan
Zervas Art Gallery, Patras, Greece
Foresight Gallery, Amman, Jordan
Gozo Contemp...