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Silvio Severino is a contemporary photographer, collage, and gif artist.


He works in both analog and digital formats, which puts him in a unique creative position, whereby he can cross and recross the traditional and the contemporary.


Silvio is searching for new values, new visual languages that will allow him to incorporate photography, collage, and animation in new formats. With Silvio and his work, photography often becomes collage, with collage often becoming animated gif. It is an exciting new frontier in contemporary art for which this artist is at the forefront.


This is an artist that understands the technology of gifs, glitches, and loops, the bedrock of contemporary gif animation and video art. He finds himself in an enviable position whereby he can use these technologies to expand his work.


Silvio is interested in exploring a range of contemporary issues through both collage and gif animation. From nature and the urban, to consumerism and the idealisation of beauty and sexuality, from art versus capitalism, to the banality of publicity and celebrity.


Silvio was born and raised in Brazil, but has spent the last fifteen years in Europe, he now lives in Cork , Ireland

2009 / 2010 - BA Honours Photograph Arts -University of Westminster - London

2009 - ABC Award Publishing ( Photojournalism )on London College of Communication -London

2008 -BTEC National award in Art and Design ( Photography ) Grade Distinction Blake College , London

2018 Home by the Lee - Part of Language of Life :language of Humanity . Fitzgerald Park, Cork City 17 July - 26 July

2018 KAOS Festival of Contemporary Collage -Slovenia - 12-inch Collage Art – The Vinyl Art Cover Exhibition Curator + GIF projection 5 July - 15 August

2018 Lake Balaton - At The Vinyl Lounge - Part of Cork Photo 2018 - 3 April - 28 April

2018 Home by the Lee . Part of Cork World Book Fest 2018 - City Library, Grand Parade , Cork 28 April

2018 Tempo - Long Exposure Black and White Photography by Silvio Severino -100Art Gallery , Troyan , Bulgaria -01 May -30 August

2017 Three songs - Concert Photography by Silvio Severino The Vinyl lounge , Golden discs , Cork - 29 July 30 October

2017 Electric Open 2017 -Electric Picture House Cheshire UK . 21 October - 18 November

2017 Collagistas Festival 4th- Milan,​ Italy - 22 - 29 September

2017 Vernissage "Sauce Brazil - 10+ Brazilian artists and the cornet" 12 May . -Home Frit' Home

2017 Collagistas Festival 3rd editio Eindhoven, The Netherlands 01 - 10 April

2017 In Glue We Trust - Collage by Silvio Severino .
Pele-Mele d'Ixells Brussels

2016 - WATER CONNECTS 3rd Place -Siófok, Lake Balaton series - Robert Capa Contempo...