Regina Silva Silveira was born on 1939 and is a Brazilian artist known for her work with light, shadows and distortions exploring ideas of reality.
22 Facts About Regina Silveira
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Regina Silveira was born in 1939 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, but has spent much of her life in the city of Sao Paulo.
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Regina Silveira began studying art in 1950 under Brazilian painter Ibere Camargo; she studied lithography and woodcut in addition to painting.
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Regina Silveira graduated in 1958 with a degree in fine arts from the Arts Institute of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
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Regina Silveira returned to Brazil in 1973, continuing her studies at University of Sao Paulo's School of Communication and Arts, completing her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980 and a PhD from the same institution in 1984.
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Regina Silveira held positions at many universities throughout her career.
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Regina Silveira kept this position for just over ten years from 1973 until 1985 when she found a new employment opportunity.
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Regina Silveira retired after a lengthy career from the Department of Plastic Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at the Universidade de Sao Paulo.
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Regina Silveira has recently become involved in virtual reality, has made two collaborative works, Infinities and Odisseia.
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Regina Silveira established herself as an artist during under the military dictatorship in the 1970s, creating ephemeral conceptual works such as videos, pamphlets and mail art.
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Regina Silveira "subverted expected meanings through paradox and enigma with the aim of destabilizing perception".
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Regina Silveira has used printmaking to explore the impact of distortion with confrontational shadow images.
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Regina Silveira's work centers around the idea that there is a tension between movement and the spatial perspective of an individual, which allows her to interpret her ideas and themes in whatever format she chooses; sometimes she likes to tie in political connotations in order to give a deeper meaning to her work.
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Regina Silveira is known for her novel uses of museum and gallery spaces and for her installations in empty office spaces in Houston, Texas.
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Regina Silveira is represented by the Sicardi Gallery in Houston, Texas.
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Regina Silveira took part in many group exhibitions such as the Bienal de Sao Paulo, the Havana Biennial ; Brazil: Body and Soul, Guggenheim Museum ; the XV ; Philagrafika ; and the XI Biennial of Cuenca.
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Regina Silveira has hosted and contributed to over 100 exhibitions throughout her illustrious career.
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Regina Silveira took an entire glass-building and she placed a vinyl lightbulb on the facade which was dark during the day, but had the ability to light up at night.
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Regina Silveira utilized blue glass additions which caused the building to have a very different look than its original style, and it managed to cast shadows and patterns onto the floor which was exactly what Regina Silveira wanted.
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Regina Silveira took latex and using dotted lines, she outlined an artist's easel holding a piece of canvas, with a stool by its side.
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In Mil E Um Dias, Regina Silveira painted two scenes on a plain wall which included a doorway and stairs.
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In recent years, Regina Silveira has won several awards for her work.