About Viviane Silvera
Founder of On Art, Viviane Silvera is an award winning artist and filmmaker.
Having rigorously trained in the visual and plastic arts, Silvera has exhibited her work for 22 years, most recently in the Edward Hopper House, the Albright Knox, Dahesh, and Masur Museums, and El Museo de la Ciudad - Mexico.
Her videos have been installed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MGM National Harbor, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Mary Washington, The Cube Art Project with Union Bank, 4Culture Gallery in Pioneer Square, Seattle, Altspace VR (Microsoft’s VR Platform), Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre and Davidson College, among other venues. Her animations have been licensed by McCann Advertising and installed in hotels, universities, and museums across the globe.
Her documentary, See Memory premiered at the Imagine Science Film Festival and is distributed through NEW DAY FILMS and will have its broadcast premiere on PBS in 2024.
Silvera has received numerous grants and awards, including the 2013 Award of Excellence in Painting from the Edward Hopper House, the Chaim Gross, Valerie Delacorte, and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Awards from the National Academy School of Fine Arts and a Fantasy Foundation Grant. Her work has been written about in the Art Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Gotham Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, Time Out New York and The New York Times and was the cover and featured interview in Gambling the Aisle Literary magazine and the subject of a 36 page spread in Art Habens Review in 2019.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, the Van Every Smith Galleries at Davidson College, Vanderbilt University’s "Garden of Great Ideas, the Ziff Davis Corporate Collection, Tribeca Flashpoint Media Academy. Silvera’s outdoor sculpture “The Fault” was commissioned by and permanently installed for the Women’s Studies Department at Vanderbilt University, where she collaborated with landscape designers, architects, and engineers to realize her design.
Viviane runs On Art where she teaches classes on film and painting and creates educational arts programming online, in person in new york city and abroad. On Art hosts salons for curators, writers and filmmakers. Viviane has taken On Art participants to over 100 New York City studios over the past 20 years, connecting artists with art lovers and creating inspiring and intimate conversations about the work, life and practice of the artist.
As a respected voice in the art industry, Viviane’s views on contemporary art have been written about in The Evening Standard and the Christie’s Newsletter.
Before founding On Art she ran the Visiting Artist Program for the Brooklyn Historical Society and taught at Marymount Manhattan College and The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She was on the studio arts faculty of the National Academy School of Fine Arts and the 92nd Street Y School of the Arts for many years before leaving to focus her time on filmmaking.
Silvera was born in Hong Kong and raised in Brazil. Presently based in New York City with her family, she is Founder and Director of On Art and Director and Producer for Painted Film Productions. Viviane Silvera received a BS from Tufts University in Cognitive Psychology and Political Science and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art.