Rick Silva
Statement
Rick Silva’s work explores notions of landscape and wilderness in the 21st century.
In his art, representations and experiences of the physical and virtual become
entangled; suspended momentarily in installations, videos, websites, and images.
Bio
Rick Silva was born in 1977 in Brazil and lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he is an
Associate Professor of Art & Technology at the University of Oregon. He received
an MFA from The University of Colorado in 2007, and has since shown extensively
nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at Transfer Gallery in New York,
Wil Aballe Art Projects in Vancouver, New Shelter Plan in Copenhagen, and
Interstitial Gallery in Seattle. Silva’s projects and collaborations have been featured
in festivals such as Sonar in Barcelona, Transmediale in Berlin, and Resonate in
Belgrade. His works and installations have been acquired by multiple permanent
collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Borusan
Contemporary Collection, and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn
University. WIRED magazine called Silva’s videos "glitchy, curious things; some
mesmerizing, some arresting."
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Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2019
Liminal Territory, TRANSFER Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
DRAPE WAVE, The Ski Club, Milwaukee, WI
En Plein Air, TRANSFER at Wallplay #ONCANAL, New York, NY
2018
SIGNALS, Let there be Light, Pier 86, Seattle Washington
SIGNALS, Berkley Art Center, Glas Animation Festival, Berkley, CA
SIGNALS, Interstitial Gallery, Seattle, WA
After Weather, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2017
SIGNALS, Prozor Gallery, Resonate 2017, Belgrade, Serbia
2016
DRAPE WAVE, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
2015
SIGNALS, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
The Silva Field Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future, Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
DRAPE WAVE, New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
The Silva Field Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future, BLOCK T, Dublin, Ireland
SKY BURIAL, Transfer Gallery, New York, NY
Render Garden, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
2013
En Plein Air, Transfer Gallery, New York, NY
En Plein Air, Gallery 842, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2012
A Rough Mix, The Electronic Gallery at Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Border Control, Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Selections From The Collection, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
NEARUR, Kesey Farm, Pleasant Hill, OR
Media Live: Subterranean, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Transfer Download, SPRING / BREAK Art Show LA, Los Angeles, CA
2018
VASTE MONDE, Galerie Georges Pompidou, Anglet, France
Luminocity, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Canada
TIAMAT: All These Worlds are Your Except Earth, 3/F Comix Home Base, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Without Nature, NiCOLETTi contemporary, London, England
Unwalking the West, The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA, Portland, Or
LAND / SEA / SIGNALS, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland
TECHNE LAB, Made in NY Media Center by IFP New York, NY
Another Visit to the Sculpture, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico
TRANSFER Download, Thoma Foundation Art House, Santa Fe, NM
A Salve of Sorts, Vacation, New York ,NY
The Animated Image, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
TRANSFER Download, NADA NYC, New York, NY
2017
Medialab, Cinekid 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tree, Simulacrum, Sea, Moon, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
A Sag, Harbored, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
unREAL. The Algorithmic Present, HeK, Basel, Switzerland
Online All Summer, LACDA, Los Angels, CA
Moving Image Fair NYC, New York, NY
No Place, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville FL
2016
Moving Image Landscape, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Little Planet Pavilion, Operativa, Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
The real-fake.org.02 Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
TRANSFER Download, The Current Museum, New York, NY
TRANSFER Download, Minnesota Street Projects, San Fransisco, CA
Out of Sight 2016, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
Camera Lucida, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, Auburn, AL
The Portland2016 Biennial, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
Dance with flARmingos, Queens International 2016, Queens Museum, New York, NY
20 years of My Boyfriend Came Back From The War, MU, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2015
My Boyfriend Came Back From The War, Haus der elektronischen Künste , Basel, Switzerland
Infinity Pool, Artist-Run at The Satellite Show Miami, Ocean Terrace Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
Flatland, Linfield Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
DESIRE: Selections from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Disruption, ISEA 2015, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Bail or No? The Impossible Trick Shows, Lohioh, Cincinnati, OH
It Was a Low-lying Foglike Floating, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
CONTROL / SHIFT / ESCAPE, Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
The New Black, G12 Hub Gallery, Resonate 2015, Belgrade, Serbia
Browser Base, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Adrenalina: a imagem em movimento no século XXI, Red Bull Station, São Paulo, Brazil
EO1 Beta Showcase, Ace Hotel Gallery, New York, NY
Long-Distance Boyfriends and Other Optimisms in Digital Art, College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL
Internet Drones, Spazio ULTRA, Udine, Italy
FlaNetrie Nomade Art Space, in Hangzhou, China
The Institute for New Feeling (IfNf), Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Act Natural, Cermâ, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, France
2014
Horizontes Improváveis, Museu da Fotografia, Curitiba, Brazil
Hypersalon South Beach, Miami, FL
Data Culture, New Horizons Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Exhibition Kickstarter, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
Wallpapers, New Forms Festival 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Influx, CR10 Arts, Linlithgo, NY
The META Pavillion, 180 Creative Camp, Abrantes, Portugal
Art of the Video Game: Temporary Interventions, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Programming the Curators, Click Festival, Helsingor, Denmark
Surface habitable, International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont, France
Fontana Mix: Loop, Autzen Gallery, PSU, Portland, OR
Interlaced, University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Dashboard, KALPANY Artspace, Milan, Italy
UNPAINTED Media Art Fair, Postpalast, Munich, Germany
2013
You Are Here, The Hole, NYC, NY
local. #non.access, km temporaer, Berlin, DE
Currents 2013, The Santa Fe International New Media Festival, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
(glitch) Art Genealogy, LEAP Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance, Berlin, DE
Of A Technical Nature, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
DVD Dead Drop, Museum of Moving Image, NYC
Zip The Bright, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
Observations, Pearl Conard Art Gallery, OSU, Mansfield, OH
Color Shift, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2012
Visual Rhythm, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Born in 1987: The Animated Gif, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England
Luminous, Box 13 Artspace, Houston, TX
2011
Is This Thing On?, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Notes on a New Nature, 319 Scholes, New York, NY
Datascapes, Fotografia Festival, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
2010
Interferenze New Arts Festival, Castello Ducale, Bisaccia, Italy
2009
Digital to Physical, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
Vivo arte.mov Festival Internacional de Arte em Mídias Móveis, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
22 Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
La Biennal Digital de Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain
2008
In and Out of Time: Selections from the CU Art Museum, BMOCA, Boulder, CO
E-Critures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
WEBCRA.SH Exhibition, PICTURA, Dordrecht, NL
American Dreams: New Video and Animation, Pace Digital Gallery, New York, NY
Just Playing, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2007
Not Your Parent's MTV, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Outside In, MFA Thesis Exhibition, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Observatori, Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain
New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
2006
DJ Rabbi, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Karaoke, The Art Gallery of Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
Sonar Festival, À La Carte Digital Art, Barcelona, Spain
Gif Show, RX Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Meta.morphosis, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
All Systems Go, Scope Fair, New York, NY
2005
Syntax Root: Loop, E:VENT, London, UK
SouthwestNET:techno, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Design In Progress Festival, Openbare Bibliotheek Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Holland
2004
Disinformation Center, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY
Festival International de Linguagem Eletrônica: Hypersonica, Paço das Artes, São Paulo,Brazil
2003
Emerging Artists, Emerging Art, The Dairy Center for The Arts, Boulder, CO
Selected Screenings
2018
Bail or No?, The Nightingale, Chicago, IL
Supernova Festival 2018, Denver Performing Art Complex, Denver, CO
Ecomedia Arts Festival, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Translating the Animal, East Greenhouse, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Post Human Futures, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
Monsters in the Wilderness, humainTROPhumain, Montpellier, France
2017
UCLA Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Supernova Festival 2017, Denver Performing Art Complex, Denver, CO
ECLIPSECORE, Total Solar, Salem, OR
ECLIPSECORE, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
Post Internet & The Moving Image, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2016
Supernova Festival 2016, Denver Performing Art Complex, Denver, CO
2015
LED Film Fest, tmrw.prty, Sanlitun, Beijing, China
Animation Breakdown 2015!, Cinefamily, Los Angeles, CA
2015
UCLA Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Expanded CInema IV, Dallas Videofest, Dallas, TX
positioning systems, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY
H30//002, The Drift, Pittsburgh, PA
Black Box 2.0, Landscapes Revisited, SAM Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA
STRP Festival, Silent Cinema, STRP, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Rritmo, La Rambleta, Valencia, Spain
2013
PAF Festival of Film + Animation, Univerzitní 3, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Remix-It-Right, Rediscoveries in the Phil Morton Archive, CATE, SAIC, Chicago, IL
DINCA Vision Quest 2013, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
DATA DRAPE 1.2, SPAMM.ARTE / SHOW OFF, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
2012
Monochromo 17, Museo Centro Cultural Clavijero, Morelia Mexico
Friday Flash, Denver Theater District, 14th + Champa LED Screen, Denver
2010
Digital Nature: An Evening of Multimedia Arts, Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver, CO
2008
Dallas Video Festival, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
After the Net, Observatori 2008, 9th Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valencia, Spain
Digital Media 1.0 Festival, La Nau, Valencia, Spain
Cimatics A/V Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, England
Surge, Free103point9, Rhizome and Participant Inc, New York, NY
2005
First Person Cinema, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Arco_05, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I., Madrid, Spain
Microwave International Media Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong, China
Videobrasil, Associação Cultural, Sesc, São Paulo, Brazil
VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
Transmediale International Media Art Festival 2005: Basics, Berlin, Germany
6th Seoul Net and Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2004
DotMov 2004 Film Festival, Sapporo, Japan
Canariasmediafest, Festival Internacional de arte y culturas digitales, Las Palmas, Spain
D>ART04, 2004 Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
back_up Festival: Festival of New Media in Film, Weimar, Germany
RFF 2004, University of Bremen, Germany
Machinista Festival, Glasgow Scotland and Perm, Russia
Selected Performances
2013
MSPS New Music Festival 2013, Shreveport, LA
2011
Like: A Performance Series, VOGT Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Media Archeology: Software Cinema Festival, Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2005
Syntax Root: Loop, E:VENT, London, England
2004
Digital Interconnection 2004, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Online Exhibitions
2017
Rhizome Net Art Anthology
2012
The Download, Rhizome.org
2006
Artport, Whitney Museum of American Art
