Artista Regina Silveira

Graduated in Fine Arts at the UFRGS Arts Institute (1959), she took her Master's Degree (1980) and PhD (1984) at the School of Communications and Arts at USP. She taught at the UFRGS Arts Institute (1964-69), at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (1969-1973), at FAAP, in São Paulo (1973-85), and is a retired professor from the Department of Fine Arts at ECA/USP, where she taught since 1974. She has participated in several international biennales, including the São Paulo Biennale (1983 and 1998), the Mercosul Biennale (2001 and 2011), the Taipei Biennale (2006), and Mediations, Poznan Biennale, Poland (2012) . Among many group exhibitions since the 1960s, some more recent ones are: "Brazil: Body and Soul", at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2001), "The 70s: Art As Question", Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2007), "Machines of Mirar", at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Sevillha (2009), "Philagrafika 2010", in Philadelphia, USA, "Engraving in the Expanded Field" and "Open/Closed: Box and Book in Brazilian Art", both at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2012).

Of the solo exhibitions, from 1959 to the present, some among the most recent are: Lumen at the Crystal Palace, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2005), Sombra Luminosa at the Banco de la República Art Museum, Bogotá (2007), Ficções at the Vale do Rio Doce Museum, Vila Velha - ES (2006) , Tropel Reversed at the Køge Art Museum, Denmark (2009), Linha de Sombra at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2009), Abyssal at Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (2010), Ocupação at Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2010), 1001 Dias e Outros Enigmas at Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011), Limits at Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, UT El Paso, USA (2011) and In Absentia (Collection) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Co., USA (2012).

He has held a CNPQ Research Fellowship (1985-89), a Residency Fellowship at the Banff Centre, Canada (1993), the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York, as well as Umbertide, Italy (1995), and was Visiting Artist at the University of Texas, Austin (1998). He has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1990), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993) and Fulbright Foundation (1994). Recent national awards were the Sérgio Motta Award for Art and Technology (2000), APCA -SP Award given for the exhibition Claraluz (2003), Bravo Prime Award in the Arts, given to Mundus Admirabilis (2007), Bunge Foundation Award in the Arts (2009) and the Critics' Grand Prize, given to the Tramazul intervention at MASP (2010/2011), by APCA-SP in 2011. Recently, in 2013, Regina Silveira won the Masp Award, for the trajectory of her career.

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