Caterina Silva (1983, Rome) is a visual artist and a performer based in Rome.
Through her painting and performance, she investigates the connections between language and power from a silent perspective with which to elude canonical structures of meaning production and question broader systems of classification and control.
She was artist in residence at Cité des arts, Paris 2012; Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 2014-2015; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju 2016; NKD, Dale, Norway 2018. In 2022 she is the winner of the Italian Council XI Edition-Talent Development research call.
Her works and performances were showcased in several international venues, such as Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Plataforma Festival, Santiago de Compostela; Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome; Bosse&Baum, London; Rugby art gallery and museum, Rugby, UK; Rita Urso-Artopia, Milan; MACTE, Termoli; Spinola Banna Foundation, Poirino; Casa Testori, Milan; Centrale Montemartini, Rome; SSOL/AP, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam; Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan.
Caterina Silva (1983, Rome) is a visual artist and a performer based in Rome.
Through her painting and performance, she investigates the connections between language and power from a silent perspective with which to elude canonical structures of meaning production and question broader systems of classification and control.
She was artist in residence at Cité des arts, Paris 2012; Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 2014-2015; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju 2016; NKD, Dale, Norway 2018. In 2022 she is the winner of the Italian Council XI Edition-Talent Development research call.
Her works and performances were showcased in several international venues, such as Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Plataforma Festival, Santiago de Compostela; Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome; Bosse&Baum, London; Rugby art gallery and museum, Rugby, UK; Rita Urso-Artopia, Milan; MACTE, Termoli; Spinola Banna Foundation, Poirino; Casa Testori, Milan; Centrale Montemartini, Rome; SSOL/AP, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam; Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan.
(b. 1983, Rome - IT)
Education
2014-2015 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003-2005 Philosophy, La Sapienza, Rome
2003-2006 BA-Scenography, Istituto Europeo di Design, Rome
2001-2002 Camberwell College of Arts, London
Solo Shows
2025 Seven Canvases, Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, Rome
2025 things that will never become objects, Galleria Eugenia Delfini, Rome
2025 ArteFiera, Painting Section, Bologna, booth Galleria Eugenia Delfini
2024 Pink for flower, Lateral Roma, Rome
2022 The cruellest month, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome
2022 Summer unknown, curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Bosse&Baum, London
2021 Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə, MACTE Digital, curated by Marta Federici, MACTE Foundation, Termoli
2021 Il Crepaccio, IG show, curated by Caroline Corbetta
2020 Unpowered, Vortic London Collective, XR
2019 Present Future, Artissima, Turin
2018 Impressioni, Bosse&Baum, London
2017 Amor Proprio, performance, curated by C.L. Pisano, Centrale Montemartini, Rome
2016 Münster, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome
2016 Senza Sistema, Bosse&Baum, London
2016 Sacrosanctum, curated by Adalberto Abbate, Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo
2016 Miart 2016, with Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2015 tbc (august), Bosse&Baum, London
2015 Paolo, Marco, Ashok, Luca, Luigi, Adele, Alighiero, RijksOpen, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2015 Soggetto.Oggetto.Abietto, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2014 Story of the City of Brass, RijksOpen, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2014 Fear Eats the Soul, the Soul Eats Fear, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2010 Subverting Dualities, curated by Aria Spinelli, VM21 Gallery, Rome
Group Shows & Performances
2024 Echo of future bodies @ Tongue Twisters, curated by Lisa Andreani, Valerio Di Lucente and Adrienne Drake, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
2023 Terra, curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, Burgundy, France
2023 Animal symbolicum, text by Giuliana Benassi, Galleria Nicola Pedana, Caserta
2023 Echo of future bodies, SGAE, Plataforma Festival, Santiago de Compostela
2023 Echo of future bodies, podcast on MACTE Digital, MACTE Foundation, Termoli
2023 La lunga estate calda, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, La Galleria Nazionale, Rome
2023 Amici o pittori, curated by Marco Emmanuele, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome
2022 Body en Thrall, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Rugby Art Gallery&Museum, Rugby, UK
2021 Cartacoreana, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome
2021 Painting, painting, painting, Marignana Arte, Venice
2021 Ad ampio respiro, Rita Urso artopiagallery, Milan
2021 Altrimenti anche niente, Rehearsal Project, Milan
2021 La comunità inoperosa, curated by Giuseppe Armogida, Palazzo Ducale di Tagliacozzo, L'Aquila
2021 I.T.P.A., with Liza Buzytsky, curated by Valentina Galossi, Retramp, Berlin
2021 Pietre Volanti, curated by Lunetta 11, Chapel of the holy family, Dogliani, CN
2020 Due quadri e un tavolo, Richter Fine Arts, Rome
2020 Mistici Sensuali Contemplativi, Metodo, Milan
2019 Diaries among diaries, curated by Elena Volpato, Fondazione Spinola Banna, Turin
2019 Summer exhibition, Lunetta 11, Mombarcaro, Alba
2018 Graffiare il presente, curated by Daniele Capra and Giuseppe Frangi, Casa Testori, Novate, Milan
2018 Storm II, performance, satellite event of Block Universe festival, Bosse&Baum, London
2018 La superficie accidentata, Fourteen ArTellaro, Tellaro, La Spezia
2018 Finite/Infinite, Everard Read-Circa, Cape Town
2018 De Lachende Cavalier, curated by Abstracte, Wijnstraat 119, Dordrecht
2018 Francesco Fabbri Prize VII, Francesco Fabbri Foundation, Pieve di Soligo, Treviso
2017 Deposito d'arte italiana presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima, Turin
2017 Herstories, curated by Juliette Desorgues, Protein Studios, London
2017 You see me like a ufo, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Ascot
2017 SSOL/AP, performance, Rozenstraat-a rose is a rose is a rose and various location, Amsterdam
2017 SSOL/AP, performance, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome
2016 A.P., performance, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
2016 Anthropocene, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2016 Secret Society of Lovers, performance, Bosse&Baum, London
2016 Jolly Joker, curated by Lisa Reitmeier, Catherine Biocca, Benedikt Hipp, Amsterdam
2015 Painting Now, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan
2015 16° Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan
2015 The reconfigured painting, curated by R. Gavarro, Canal 05 Gallery, Brussels
2013 Room 8111, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris
2013 She views herself, curated by Doris Kloster, Air France, Paris
2012 Giorni Felici, invited by Enzo Cucchi, Casa Testori, Novate-Milan
2012 Reality Show, curated by Stanislao Di Giugno, Tiziana Di Caro Gallery, Salerno
2012 Portonaccio, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Ex Magazzini di Via Arimondi, Rome
2012 Tutto, 26cc space for contemporary art, Rome
2011 Brooklyn Boudoir, curated by Valentina Casacchia, 400S2nd, NYC
2010 Impresa Pittura, curated by C.L. Pisano & R. Gavarro, C. I. A.C. Museum, Genazzano, Rome
2008 Poetiche della precarietà, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, Sala delle Colonne, Milan
2007 Uh! with Kinkaleri, Palazzo Re Enzo, Netmage Festival, Bologna
2007 Viaggio in tempo reale, Roma Poesia ‘07, curated by Simone Carella, Teatro Colosseo/Fondazione Baruchello, Rome
Awards & Residencies
2022 Italian Council - Talent development grant
2020 Talent Prize, shortlisted, Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome
2019 BOCS Residency, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Cosenza
2019 Fondazione Spinola Banna/GAM, Turin
2018 Arp Residency, Cape Town
2018 Combat Prize, winner of the painting section, G. Fattori Museum, Livorno
2018 NKD, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway
2016 ACC-Rijksakademie Dialogue and Exchange, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
2014 DE.MO./Movin’Up, Giovani Artisti Italiani
2012-2013 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Teaching & Workshop
2023 ongoing- Lecturer Painting 3, BA english class, Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Rome
2022 Painting Masterclass, MA Fine Art, Rome University of Fine Arts, Rome
2022 Artisti in Erba, art workshop, SMART Foundation, Rome
2022 L'invenzione della giovinezza, curated by Sarah Linford, SMART Foundation, Rome
2018 Lecturer BA Fine Arts, Ruth Prowse School of Art, Cape Town
2015 Dynamo art factory, immersive painting workshop/art therapy for children, Pistoia
Selected Online Press
Studio visit with Nicolas Martino, Panorama, Quadriennale di Roma, 2022
I Limbo paintings di Caterina Silva, Anna Cestelli Guidi, Ruth, 2022
Interview with Huma Kabakci on Open Space, June 2022
Some summer fragments, text by Alfredo Cramerotti on NERO Magazine , Apr. 2022
Caterina Silva-Il più crudele dei mesi, Ludovico Pratesi on Exibart, Aug. 2022
Caterina Silva. Una natura gentile che si sfalda, Guglielmo Gigliotti, Il Giornale dell'arte, Sept. 2022
Open studio on Twitch, Artribune, Apr. 2022
Il MACTE di Termoli si arricchisce del lavoro di tre artiste
ITPA Il nuovo progetto di Caterina Silva, text by Eleonora Bruni on Inside Art , Sept. 2021
Caterina Silva. Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə | MACTE Digital, Interview on ATP Diary with Veronica Pillon, ,June 2021
I (never) explain # 100 on ATP Diary, 2020
Interview with Simek Shropshire on Floorr Magazine, Issue 22, Nov. 2019
Diari tra Diari: Start Interview. Caterina Silva, artista in residenza, 2018
Interview with Raffaele Gavarro on Exibart (ita) 2017
Interview with Marco Arrigoni on ATP Diary (ita) 2017
Selected publications & Catalogues
2024 Visual thoughts and pictorial imagination, Maria Vittoria Pinotti, Arte e Critica n° 99
2022 Pink for flower, texts by Laura Smith, Marta Federici, Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Bea McMahon, Raffaele Torella, Hannah Proctor, publisher viaindustriae, curator Bosse&Baum, 176 pages, hardcover 22,5x16 cm, English/Italian ISBN 9788897753773
2021 Avanti & Indietro 16 conversazioni sull'arte nel tempo e nella realtà analogicodigitale, Raffaele Gavarro, Maretti edizioni
2021 Ad ampio respiro, Andando incontro al vento, Irene Rivolta, exh. cat. Rita Urso artopia gallery
2020 Caterina Silva, Eleonora Bruni, Inside Art Magazine #120, October
2019 Present Future, Emilie Villez, cat. Artissima
2019 Diari tra diari/Diaries among diaries, Elena Volpato & contribution of the artists, viaindustriae publishing, cat. Fondazione Spinola Banna
2018 Graffiare il presente, Giuseppe Frangi and Daniele Capra, exh. cat. Casa Testori
2018 Premio Francesco Fabbri, VII ed., exh. cat.
2018 Combat Prize, IX ed. , exh. cat.
2017 Sic-intertrashional, edited by Bea McMahon and Dan Walvin, artist zine
2016 Sacrosanctum, Adalberto Abbate, Maria Luisa Montaperto, Drago edizioni
2015 Rijksakademie Open, exh. cat.
2015 L'astrazione decostruita di Caterina Silva, Arte Mondadori, September
2015 16° Premio Cairo, Cairo Edizioni, exh. cat.
2015 Ultime di Via Farini DOCVA, Giulio Verago, Artribune Magazine #25
2014 Rijksakademie Open, exh. cat.
2012 Portonaccio, Achille Bonito Oliva, Portonaccio-Artisti in condominio, exh. cat.
2012 Route tournante en sous bois, Federico Mazzonelli, exh. cat. No beast so fierce
2011-2013 Paintings from paradise (The punk sister of Agnes Martin), project and book with dance maker Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Rome
2010 Il corpo racconta. O tace, Claudio Libero Pisano, Gli Altri, 2010
2010 Bianco-Valente/Silva, Francesca Orsi, Exibart n° 67
2010 Impresa Pittura, Elena Bordignon, Flash Art n° 285
2010 La Visione Spezzata, M. Brevi, E. Castellari, Arte Mondadori
2010 La pittura italiana oggi, Raffaele Gavarro, exh. cat. Impresa Pittura
2010 Un luogo incerto, Claudio Libero Pisano, exh. cat. Impresa Pittura
Selected Artworks
