Caterina Silva (Rome, 1983) is an artist currently based in Rome.
Through painting and performance she investigates the connections between language and power, adopting a silent perspective with which to elude canonical structures of production of meaning and questioning wider systems of classification and control.
Recent exhibitions and performances include Echo of future bodies, Plataforma Festival, Santiago De Compostela, 2023, The cruellest month, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, 2022; Summer unknown, Bosse&Baum, London 2022; Body en thrall, Rugby art gallery and museum, Rugby, UK, 2022; Ad ampio respiro, Rita Urso-Artopia, Milan, 2021; Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə, MACTE Digital, MACTE Foundation, Termoli, 2021; Present Future, Artissima, Turin, 2019; Diaries among diaries, Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino, 2019.
She was an artist in residence at Cité des arts, Paris 2012; Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 2014-2015; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju 2016; Nordisk Kunstnaarsenter Dale (NKD), Norway 2018. In 2022 she is awarded the Italian Council-XI Edition,Talent development grant, DGCC.
Upcoming : Terra - A multidisciplinary site-specific exhibition across Burgundy in France, curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, produced by Milena Berman20 October - 25 November 2023
Through painting and performance she investigates the connections between language and power, adopting a silent perspective with which to elude canonical structures of production of meaning and questioning wider systems of classification and control.
Recent exhibitions and performances include Echo of future bodies, Plataforma Festival, Santiago De Compostela, 2023, The cruellest month, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, 2022; Summer unknown, Bosse&Baum, London 2022; Body en thrall, Rugby art gallery and museum, Rugby, UK, 2022; Ad ampio respiro, Rita Urso-Artopia, Milan, 2021; Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə, MACTE Digital, MACTE Foundation, Termoli, 2021; Present Future, Artissima, Turin, 2019; Diaries among diaries, Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino, 2019.
She was an artist in residence at Cité des arts, Paris 2012; Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 2014-2015; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju 2016; Nordisk Kunstnaarsenter Dale (NKD), Norway 2018. In 2022 she is awarded the Italian Council-XI Edition,Talent development grant, DGCC.
Upcoming : Terra - A multidisciplinary site-specific exhibition across Burgundy in France, curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond, produced by Milena Berman20 October - 25 November 2023