Viviane Silvera

Viviane Silvera is an award-winning painter and filmmaker whose work explores the intersection of memory, trauma, and healing through art.

She is the creator of See Memory, a groundbreaking animated documentary composed of 30,000 hand-painted frames, which is currently airing nationwide on PBS. The film visualizes the neuroscience of memory and PTSD through her distinctive painting style, blending science and storytelling in an emotionally resonant way. See Memory has been featured by the UCLA Semel Institute, The Friedman Brain Institute, and The Imagine Science Film Festival, and is being used as a teaching tool by educators, therapists, and neuroscientists across the country.

Silvera is the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Painting from the Edward Hopper House, as well as grants and accolades from the Chaim Gross Foundation, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, and Fantasy Foundation. Her paintings have been exhibited at Art Basel Miami, Berlin Art Week, and in the permanent collections of Tufts, Duke, and Vanderbilt Universities, among others.

Based in New York, her work invites viewers to reflect on the fluid nature of perception, memory, and identity—and the potential for personal transformation through art.

2001 MFA Sculpture The New York Academy of Art
1992 BA Politial Science/Psychology Tufts University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Time Away From Time; Art Basel Miami, Presented by Pinktada
2018 See Memory; Paintings & Films of Viviane Silvera, Iron Gate East Gallery, NY
2014 On My Way; The Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
2013 Therapy Part Two; Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 Therapy Part One; 511 Gallery at Space B, New York, NY
2011 Praying Hands; 511 Gallery at the Cell, New York, NY
2008 Borrowed Memory; , Ratio Gallery, Bellport, NY
2005 Everyday Saints; 511 Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Praying Hands; Gallery Boreas, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Elastic Mind, Broward College, April 20- Sep 28
2022 Voice x NYAA Residency and Exhibition, New York, NY
2021 Almost Endless, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, PA
Wilkinson Gallery at the NYAA. Selections by James Cohan, Monica King, Loreta Lamargese & Lauren Wittels
2018 New Acquisitions; Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College
2017 A Hazy Shade of Winter, Salomon Contemporary, The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens
Artist in Residence, Curated by James Salomon and Carole Reed,Southampton
2016 Marymount California Media Arts, Marylyn & Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts,CA
New Mid Atlantic Painting Biennial, University of Mary Washington Gal...