Artist

Silvia Mecozzi 1

He lives and works in São Paulo.

Daughter and granddaughter of painters, Silvia graduated from FAAP and broadened her education working in artists' studios in Brazil and France. In her first individual exhibition, organized at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in 1994, she received the Revelation in Painting Award from APCA. Since 2000, the individual shows mera esfera espera espinho, presented at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, at the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul and at the Espaço Cultural dos Correios (Rio de Janeiro), in 2003, and at the Galeria Raquel Arnaud, in 2004;

In 2005 he presented urchins at Estação Pinacoteca (São Paulo) and in 2007 he held a solo show at Galerie Sycomore Art in Paris. In 2009 he was part of the exhibition libérer l'horizon, reinventer l'espace at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), and exhibited the video installation olódòdó, at the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Salvador). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions since the 1990s, including O Traje como Objeto de Arte, at the Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), both in 1990; and Viagens e Identidades (United Artists V), at the Casa das Rosas (São Paulo, 1999). Between 2000 and 2008, in addition to group exhibitions, such as Ópera Aberta, at Casa das Rosas (2002), and Natureza Morta/Still Life, at the Sesi Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói (2004), he was part of Arte Contemporânea, uma Historia em Aberto, 2004, Transparências (2007) and Entre o Plano e o Espaço (2008), organized by the Raquel Arnaud Gallery. Since 2014 she has been part of the group of artists at Galeria Eduardo Fernandes, where in 2016 she exhibited the series foi tão corpo que foi puro espírito.