Regina Silveira
1939, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil
Regina Silveira’s artistic research questions the orthodox, preestablished forms of representation, leading her to work with new possibilities of signification. Her works explore the architectural and contextual space, generally evoking a sense of uncanniness through the displacement of the commonplace, that is, our common references. Regina Silveira is known for her research into the principles of perspective, tridimensionality, and the study of shadows, which she employs in large site-specific installations, vinyl cutouts, luminous projections, works in printmaking, embroidery, porcelain, digital videos, etc.With a BA in arts from the Instituto de Artes do Rio Grande do Sul (1959), an MA (1980) and PhD in art (1984) from the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA USP), her career as a professor includes stints of teaching at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; at FAAP, São Paulo; and at ECA USP. She was an invited artist at the 1981, 1983 and 1998 editions of the Bienal de São Paulo, the 2013 and 2015 editions of the Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, and the 2001 and 2011 editions of the Bienal do Mercosul. She participated in the Bienal de La Habana, Cuba, in 1986, 1998 and 2015; Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland, in 2012; the 6th Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, in 2006; and the 2nd Setouchi Triennale, Japan, in 2016. The artist’s work has been presented at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea - MAC-USP, São Paulo (2021-22); Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2020; the Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo, 2018; the Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, 2015; the Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, 2014; the Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, 2011; Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, Poland, 2010; Masp, 2010; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2005. Regina Silveira was awarded the Prêmio Masp (2013), the Prêmio APCA for her career (2011), and the Prêmio Fundação Bunge (2009). She has received grants from the Fulbright (1994), Pollock-Krasner (1993) and Guggenheim (1990) foundations, and her work figures in countless public and private collections, such as those of the Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation (USA), Inhotim, Coleção Itaú, El Museo del Barrio (USA), MAC-USP, Masp, MAM-RJ/SP, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MoMA (USA), and the Phoenix Museum (USA).
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Regina Silveira | GRAPHOS
29 March - 24 May 2025The exhibition GRAPHOS , a solo show by Regina Silveira, presents her artwork of the same name, conceived in 1991, several years before her first exhibition at Luciana Brito Galeria...Read more -
Regina Silveira | Fauna Mix
12 February - 19 March 2022For a long time, Regina Silveira’s research has dealt with various possibilities regarding the signification and representation of Brazilian wildlife. As a new development in this investigation – which includes...Read more -
Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful
14 October - 19 December 2020Luciana Brito Galeria is pleased to announce the show 'Art must be Beautiful, Artist must be Beautiful', underscoring the presence of women artists and reinforcing the importance of their research...Read more -
Dividing Line
21 August - 26 September 2020Luciana Brito Galeria is pleased to announce a group show online Dividing Line. Inspired by Regina Silveira’s artwork of the same name, the show presents a set of works that...Read more -
LB/Online Video Festival
28 April 2020 - 3 April 2021On this Friday, December 11, we have finalized the selection of works for the Online Video Festival. The idea for this festival arose before the pandemic, and it is being...Read more -
Regina Silveira | Coisas
9 November 2019 - 24 January 2020For the first time in her career, the works in porcelain and glass realized by the artist during the last couple of decades are presented alongside each other. Luciana Brito...Read more -
Resistências
3 February - 24 March 2018Luciana Brito Galeria is pleased to open its 2018 exhibition program with the group show Resistances, a tribute to the women artists represented by the gallery: Fabiana de Barros (b....Read more -
Regina Silveira | Tramados
14 June - 13 August 2016Regina Silveira is preparing a new installation for the exhibition that will also include technical drawings of projects from the 80s and 90s. In parallel, the gallery will present a hitherto unseen installation by Leandro Erlich.Read more -
Residência Moderna
5 April - 14 May 2016The group show gathers works by 11 artists that dialogue with the gallery’s new space, a modernist house designed by Rino Levi at Avenida Nove de Julho.Read more
Artists: Caio Reisewitz, Gaspar Gasparian, Geraldo de Barros, Héctor Zamora, Pablo Lobato, Rafael Carneiro, Regina Silveira, Rochelle Costi, Thomaz Farkas, Tiago Tebet, Waldemar Cordeiro -
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27 November - 27 February 2015Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Maria Montero and Rafael Vogt Maia Rosa, the show is the last one presented in the space at Gomes de Carvalho street, as in 2016 the gallery will move to a house designed by Rino Levi at Jardim Europa. The selection of works includes pieces by artists such as Regina Silveira, Nelson Leirner, Marina Abramović, Geraldo de Barros, Rochelle Costi, Caio Reisewitz, Thomaz Farkas and Tiago Tebet, exhibited exactly at the same location where they where originally shown in the gallery.Read more