About Viviane Silvera
Founder | Filmmaker | Speaker |Visual Artist
Viviane Silvera is a New York Emmy Award–winning director, painter, and filmmaker whose work explores memory, identity, trauma, and the relationship between art and neuroscience.
She is the founder of On Art LLC, a New York–based studio creating hand-painted documentaries, immersive installations, and educational programs.
Her PBS documentary SEE MEMORY, created from more than 30,000 individually hand-painted frames, won the 2026 NY Emmy Award for Directing, received three Emmy nominations, and earned the 2025 Telly Award for 2D Animation.
Silvera's work has been presented at universities, museums, and cultural institutions internationally, including Yale University, the UCLA Semel Institute, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Edward Hopper House Museum.
She is currently developing two new films, THE MEMORY LOOPHOLE and PROJECTING ALEPPO, exploring the relationship between personal memory, family history, and identity.