Regina Silveira

1939, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Regina Silveira's artistic research questions traditional forms of visual representation, leading her to explore new possibilities of media and meaning. Her works explore architectural and contextual spaces, often operating through graphic narratives, to create shifts in perception and strangeness, based on the common experience of virtually modified spaces. The artist is known for her research on the principles of perspective, its distortions, and the study of shadows, which she employs in large, site-specific installations. Above all, she uses a variety of media, including not only prints, porcelain, tapestries and laminate cutouts, but also digitally cut vinyl, light projections, video installations and virtual and augmented realities.

With a Bachelor of Arts from the Instituto de Artes do Rio Grande do Sul (1959), a Master's (1980) and a PhD in Art (1984) from the School of Communications and Arts of the Universidade de São Paulo (ECA-USP), her teaching career includes working at Instituto de Artes de Rio Grande do Sul; the Universidade de Puerto Rico, in Mayaguez; FAAP, São Paulo; and ECA-USP. She was a guest artist at the Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art, Portugal, in 2024, the São Paulo Biennial in its 1981, 1983, 1998, and 2021 editions, the Curitiba International Biennial in 2013 and 2015, and the Mercosur Biennial in 2001 and 2011. She also participated in the Havana Biennial, Cuba, in 1986, 1998, and 2015; Médiations Biennale, Poznan, Poland, in 2012; the 6th Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, in 2006; and the 2nd Setouchi Triennale, Japan, in 2016. More recently, in 2025, the artist inaugurated her largest commissioned work, Paradise, at IAH Terminal D - George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, USA, in addition to solo exhibitions at the Instituto Arte Contemporânea (USP), in São Paulo, at La Virreina Centre de La Imatge, Barcelona, ​​Spain, in 2024, and at the Centro de Extensión de la Universidad Católica, in Santiago, Chile. In 2021-22, Regina Silveira presented a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC-USP, in São Paulo. Additionally, the artist has had her work presented at Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2020; Brazilian Sculpture Museum – MuBE, São Paulo, Brazil, 2018; Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brazil, 2015; Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico, 2014; Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2011; Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, Poland, 2010; MASP-SP, 2010; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2005. Regina also Silveira received the MASP Award (2013), the APCA Career Achievement Award (2011), and the Bunge Foundation Award (2009). He was a fellow of the Fulbright (1994), Pollock-Krasner (1993) and Guggenheim (1990) foundations and her work is represented in numerous public and private collections, such as Usina de Arte (Brazil), Coleção Itaú (Brazil), MAC-USP (Brazil), MASP (Brazil), MAM-RJ/SP (Brazil), MACRS (Brazil), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil), MoMA (USA), Phoenix Museum (USA), Museum of Fine Arts Houston (USA), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (Taiwan), Perez Art Museum Miami (USA), among others.