Vanessa da Silva São Paulo, Brazil, b. 1976
Vanessa da Silva (b. 1976, São Paulo, Brasil) is an artist based in London. She studied Painting at the Royal College of Art, in London and has a background in Industrial Design from FAAP, in São Paulo. Da Silva was the recipient of the Hopper Prize USA in 2020, the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors, in 2019 and was awarded a scholarship from the Royal College of Art in 2016 and 2017. She also received the Almacantar Studio Award, selected by Richard Wentworth and the Ox-Bow Residency Award in 2017. She was the invited artist in residence at the FAAP Residency Program, São Paulo in 2020; Galeria Duarte Sequeira´s Artist Residency Program, Braga, the Hospitalfield Open Commission Residency, Scotland and Pivô Research, SãoPaulo, in 2019.
Vanessa da Silva´s interdisciplinary process-based practice combines sculpture, installation and performance and focuses on issues of identity formation, migration and displacement. Da Silva is interested in the ambiguity of the image, ideas of exchange and concepts of trade and value. Through the weaving of the personal and the political, the artist investigates the overlaying and fusion of histories and cultures that builds oneself.
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, York; Frieze Sculpture, Regent´s Park, London; Public Gallery, London; Lungley Gallery, London and Hospitalfield, Arbroath.
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Vanessa da SilvaMuamba Grove #0hue2, 2019Steel, fibre glass, resin and UV paint320 x 188 x 126 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaMuamba Grove #3, 2019Steel, fibre glass, resin and UV paint265 x 185 x 136 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaMuamba Grove #4, 2019Steel, fibre glass, resin and UV paint348 x 193 x 114 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaO Olho da Cara, 2021Acrylic compound, polystyrene, fiberglass, fabric, pigment63 x 19 x 30 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaMamão com açucar 2, 2021Screen print on fabric184 x 125 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaMuamba Grove #0hue3, 2019Steel, fibre glass, resin and UV paint104 x 55 x 17 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaFruta Estranha 5 , 2020Coloured pencil on paper57 x 44.5 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaFruta Estranha 7, 2020Coloured pencil on paper57 x 44.5 cm
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Vanessa da SilvaFruta Estranha 1, 2020Coloured pencil on paper57 x 44.5 cm
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Jean-Marie Appriou, Rui Chafes, Fahr, Lito Kattou, Inês Norton, Jesse Pollock, Julian Opie, Vanessa da Silva & Erwin Wur
Sculpture Park 8 Jun 2024 - 7 Jun 2025 Braga HQWe're thrilled to announce Duarte Sequeira's 2024 Sculpture Park programme, featuring artists Jean-Marie Appriou, Rui Chafes, Fahr, Lito Kattou, Inês Norton, Julian Opie, Jesse Pollock, Vanessa da Silva and Erwin Wurm. Opening on June 8th, this marks both the gallery's fifth anniversary and the first group presentation of the annual...Read more -
Vanessa da Silva & Maya Weishof
May Your Mouth Contain the Shapes of Strange Words 28 Jan - 11 Mar 2023 SeoulDuarte Sequeira is pleased to announce May Your Mouth Contain the Shapes of Strange Words, a duo exhibition of artists Vanessa da Silva and Maya Weishof; the exhibition will include by a text written by Valentina Buzzi. Vanessa da Silva (b. 1976, São Paulo, Brasil) is an artist based in...Read more -
In Bed With a Mosquito
Group Show 30 Oct 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Braga HQAndré Butzer – Petra Cortright – Lito Kattou – Petros Moris – Julian Opie – Ricardo Passaporte – Vanessa da Silva – Jonathan Uliel SaldanhaRead more -
Vanessa da Silva
Muamba Grove 28 Sep 2019 - 25 Jul 2020 Braga HQGaleria Duarte Sequeira is pleased to announce the launch of the Sculpture Park programme with invited artist-in-residence Vanessa da Silva.Read more