About Viviane Silvera
Founder | Filmmaker | Speaker |Visual Artist
Viviane Silvera is an award-winning filmmaker, visual artist, and speaker whose hand-painted films explore the intersections of memory, neuroscience, trauma, and healing. As the founder of On Art LLC, an interdisciplinary studio based in New York City, she creates work that bridges art and science—inviting audiences to reflect, feel, and heal through visual storytelling.
Her PBS-premiered film See Memory—composed of over 30,000 individually painted frames—has been presented at the UCLA Semel Institute, Yale University, Art Basel Miami, and the Edward Hopper House Museum. The Telly Award–winning film animates the inner workings of memory and trauma, offering both artistic and psychological insight into how we transform pain into meaning.
Through her wellness programs, workshops, and speaker events, Silvera brings her films into dialogue with neuroscience, storytelling, and mental health. She designs customized sessions for corporations, hospitals, and universities that use art as a tool for healing, empathy, and connection.
A sought-after speaker and educator, Silvera has presented at leading conferences, museums, and academic institutions, known for blending science and story to make complex ideas about the mind vivid and human.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Brazil, Silvera brings a global and deeply personal perspective to her work. She holds a dual degree in Psychology and Political Science from Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been supported by the Charles E. Kubly Foundation, the Friends of the Semel Institute at UCLA, Erase PTSD Now, and New Day Films, with promotional support from the Oliver Sacks Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Arts and Minds Lab. It has been licensed by universities, hospitals, and museums around the world.