Recent Recognition
🏆 Featured by the Telly Awards for innovation in hand-painted film and neuroscience storytelling.
ABOUT ON ART
On Art LLC is an interdisciplinary studio founded by painter and filmmaker Viviane Silvera, whose work explores the relationship between art, memory, neuroscience, and healing.
Based in New York City, the studio creates hand-painted films, immersive installations and exhibitions, and public programs that examine how lived experience is formed, stored, and reimagined. Through paintings in motion—thousands of sequential frames painted by hand—On Art develops projects that invite audiences to slow down, observe closely, and consider the emotional and cognitive processes that shape memory.
At On Art, we believe visual storytelling can illuminate what is often unseen: how the brain encodes experience, how trauma may imprint itself, and how memory can be revisited and reframed. Our work aims to create space for reflection, empathy, and intellectual exploration across artistic, scientific, and clinical communities.
Paintings in Motion
Our primary medium is the hand-painted film. Each project is composed of tens of thousands of individual paintings animated frame by frame. By reducing cinema to its most essential gesture—the painted mark—we create moving images that foreground process, perception, and time. The result is not simply film, but a material experience of thought and memory unfolding on screen.
Installations & Exhibitions
We collaborate with museums, universities, and public institutions to bring our work into immersive environments, including:
Multi-channel or room-scale installations
Large-scale projection mapping
Immersive screenings with live discussions
Solo and group exhibitions
Past presentations include the UCLA Semel Institute, Yale University, Art Basel Miami, the Edward Hopper House Museum, and additional academic and cultural venues.
Programs & Public Engagement
On Art produces workshops, courses, and speaker events that connect our creative work with audiences in education, mental health, and community settings.
Our offerings include:
University programs exploring visual storytelling, memory studies, and trauma
Corporate wellness and professional development talks focused on creativity and cognitive resilience
Online classes centered on the artistry behind hand-painted film
Educational and reflective arts-based sessions in clinical or therapeutic settings
While our programs draw on research in memory and neuroscience, they are educational and reflective in nature and do not constitute clinical treatment.
Recognition
On Art’s work has been recognized internationally. In 2025, the Telly Awards published a feature on Viviane Silvera’s hand-painted filmmaking process and its connection to memory science.
Silvera’s films and installations have been licensed or presented by Duke University, Tufts University, Vassar College, Columbia University, Art Week Berlin and a range of museums and academic institutions.
Our Approach
On Art operates at the intersection of rigorous studio practice and interdisciplinary research. We collaborate with neuroscientists, clinicians, storytellers, and art institutions to produce work that is both aesthetically driven and intellectually grounded.
Above all, we are committed to creating visual experiences that help audiences see memory—not as static record, but as something dynamic, expressive, and capable of transformation.