Caterina Silva is a visual artist born in Rome in 1983.
Through painting and performance her research 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.
She was an 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 awarded the Italian Council-XI Edition-Talent development grant.
Recent exhibitions and performances include: Echo of future bodies, Plataforma Festival, Santiago de Compostela, 2023; The cruellest month, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, 2022; Summer unknown, curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, Bosse&Baum, London 2022; Body en thrall, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Rugby art gallery and museum, Rugby, UK, 2022; Ad ampio respiro, Rita Urso-Artopia, Milan, 2021; Moira / Mɔjra / Mɔɪ.rə, curated by Marta Federici, MACTE Digital, MACTE Foundation, Termoli, 2021; Present Future, Artissima, Turin, 2019; Diaries among diaries, Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino, 2019; Scratching the present, Casa Testori, Milan, 2018; Impressioni, Bosse&Baum, London, 2018; Amor Proprio, Centrale Montemartini, Rome, 2017; SSOL/AP, Rozenstraat a rose is a rose and various locations, Amsterdam 2017; Münster, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, 2016; Subject. Object. Abject., Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, 2015.
