Corinne Silva

Corinne Silva (born 1976 in Leeds, England) is a British artist living and working in London. Her practice is concerned with landscape as a complex interrelation of culture and geography, politics and botany, living beings and inanimate matter. Silva explores these themes through photography, video, installation and performance. She studied Photography in Europe BA at Nottingham Trent University, MA in Photography at the University of Brighton. She gained her PhD from UAL’s London College of Communication in 2014. Corinne Silva is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London.

Silva received a Triangle International Fellowship (2014); was artist-in-residence at A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, (2013 and 2014); Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania, (2014); and Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Centro Negra, Murcia, Spain (2015). She was nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award and was a Mac First Book Award finalist (2012).

Recent group and solo exhibitions include Garden State, Ffotogallery, Wales, and The Mosaic Rooms, London (2015); ReGeneration3, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2015), Quad, Derby (2016); My Sister Who Travels, The Mosaic Rooms, London (2014); Gardening the Suburbs, Makan Art Space, Amman (2014); I See Europe! Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart (2013); Brighton Photo Biennial (2012); The Photographer’s Gallery, (2012); Flash Forward festival, Toronto and Boston (2011/2012); Wandering Abroad, National Media Museum/Ways of Looking Festival, Bradford, UK (2011); Imported Landscapes, Manifesta 8, (2010); Badlands, Noorderlicht Photofestival (2010); Wandering Abroad, Leeds Art Gallery, UK (2009).