SILVIA RIVAS
1957, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In her work and more particularly visible in her installations, the artist refers about the becoming and the different perceptions and ways in which we have related in our connection with the lapsed. It is often spoken that now times passes by faster than before, or at least, that is how we often feel it in the present and yet, certain spaces attract and trap us because, apparently, time passes or goes by slower there. This thematic is repeated and becomes present in her artistic productions with varied poetics in an always limpid and effective way, with sophisticated and strong images that have become identificatory of her artistic discourse.
She has represented Argentina in various international biennials including Mercosur (Porto Alegre in 2000 and 2005) and Havana (2003), among others. She has won numerous awards and accolades, such as the Diploma to the Merit by the Konex Foundation (2002-2012), the Leonardo Award by the National Museum of Fine Arts and the Award for Visual Arts by the Argentina Association of Art Critics (2002), among others. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in several countries such as Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, United States, Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland. Her work is part of leading national and international public and private collections. She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Participation in International Biennials
20055th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre. Brazil.
-Kunst Film Biennale. Cologne, Germany.
2003 8th International Art Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
2002Buenos Aires Biennial. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina
20013rd Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
20001st International Biennial of the Critic. Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan. B. Castagnino, Rosario.
-1st International Biennial of the Critic. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997Biennial of the Beauty. Painting Award Unilever-William Hope, Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-1st Painting Biennial, Avon with the women in art. Exhibition Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Solo Shows
2015Still Paradise is Ours. Diana Lowentein Gallery, Miami, United States.
2014Buzzing / Invisible Odyssey, curator Horacio Zabala. Museum of Fine Arts Juan. B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina.
2012Buzzing. Alon Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010Buzzing. MALBA - Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires - Costantini Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Landscape to be defined, Photography and Video. Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, United States.
2008Found in Translation I, in collaboration with Sami Abadi, video art cycle organized by the Museum of Modern Art at the French Alliance of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007Tiny Events. Diana Lowentein Fine Arts, Miami, United States.
2005Tiny Events, video installation of 5 video channels. Denegri - Golder - Rivas. Telefónica Foundation Exhibition Space, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004Everything from outside. MAMBA- Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Cheating muchachita, in collaboration with Carlos Trilnick, video-installation. Delta Project, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Before now. Miguel Frías, Latin American Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003Nightly, video-installation. Diana Lowenstein Fine Art, Miami, United States.
2001Notes about time, video-installations. Cronopios Hall, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Silvia Rivas, Notes on Time. Diana Lowenstein Fine Art, Miami, United States.
1998Silvia Rivas. Paintings and Objects. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Marks of Time - Image and Likeness. Paintings and objects. Der Brücke Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996Marks of Time - Image and Likeness. Joan Prats Gallery, New York, United States.
1995Silvia Rivas Artworks. Der Brücke Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1993Silvia Rivas Artworks. Casa da Parra, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
-Silvia Rivas Artworks. Tema Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1992Silvia Rivas Artworks. Banco Patricios Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1991Silvia Rivas Paintings . Trinta Art Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Silvia Rivas Paintings. Harrods in the Art, with Tema Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1990Silvia Rivas Paintings. Magda Belloti Gallery, Cadiz, Spain.
-Silvia Rivas Recent Paintings. Tema Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1989Silvia Rivas Paintings. Tema Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1988Silvia Rivas Paintings. Tema Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1985Silvia Rivas . De Benedictis Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1984Silvia Rivas . De Benedictis Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1982Silvia Rivas . Puente Hnos., Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Group shows
2014General Rehearsal #7. Silvia Gurfrein, Bárbara Kaplan, Silvia Rivas, curator: Olga Martinez. Buenos Aires,Argentina.
-The Museum of the Imaginary Worlds, curator: Rodrigo Alonso. MAR, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-The hidden gaze. Rolf Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013From Now On, curator: Olga Martinez. Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012Naturally Artificial, curator: Graciela Taquini. Bicentennial Cultural Center, Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
-Phase 4. Phase Meeting of Art and Technology. Curator: Rodrigo Alonso and Graciela Taquini. Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires; Castagnino Museum, Rosario, Argentina.
2011Sleepless Night. Culture all night long. Haciendo Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Current Argentine Art in the MALBA Collection. MALBA - Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010Blinkings. Lordi Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Reality and Utopia, Akademie del Künste sede Pariser Platz (Academy of the Arts of Berlin), Germany.
2009Argentina today, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, San Pablo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Intersections, Technology, Nature, Subjectivity. Arte x Arte Gallery. Curator: Jorge Zuzulich, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Poor Butterfly. Alon Foundation for the Arts, Curator: Michelle Patania, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2008Roggio Award, Emilio Caraffa Museum, Córdoba, Argentina.
-Contextual registers -Eckel-Zargón-Rivas. Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires.
-White. Argentine Theatre of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Digital Media. Valencia, Spain.
-636 –Six Rivers - Three Countries - Six Artists. Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.
-Castellón Painting Prize. Museum of Fine Arts in Castellon, Spain.
-Media images of a complex world. Sevilla, Spain.
2007Summer 07. Video-interventions on the facades of buildings. Government of the City of Buenos Aires,Argentina.
-Glares, curator: Rodrigo Alonso and Graciela Taquini, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-XI Federico Jorge Klemm Prize for Visual Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2006Soho Telo. Curator: Ana Maria Battistosi, Exhibition number 1, organized by Grupo Town House, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Balelatina. Basel, Sweden.
-Festival of Light, Ro Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-First National Contest of Paintings UADE + Digital / Video Art Art. Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-New Media Festival. Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (HACS). Miami, United States.
-In - Machines. Digital Argentine Art. Los Galpones Art Center, Caracas, Venezuela.
-National Visual Arts Hall. New media and installations, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
200515th Video Brazil, Platform 6, single-channel video installation. Video Brazil Cultural Association, San Pablo, Brazil.
-Urban adaptations. Marisma. Video-installation. Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-National Hall of New Media. Palais de Glace. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Argentina under the horizon. Facing the river, curator: Patricia Rizzo and Adriana Lauria, Open Studios. Immigrants Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Collection Alon Foundation for the Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Gallery 5006. Hotel Design Suites Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-The subtle vertigo of images, curator: Claudia Laudano, Galleries of the Cultual Center Parque de España, AECI, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
-Video Integration. Belef Center, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.
2004Trransiting, curator: Andrea Saltzman, comissioned by Nike. Palermo Hippodrome. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Festival of Light. Del Infinito Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Green, I want you green, video-installation, in collaboration with Carlos Trilnick. Cronopios room, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-VideoPak-1010. Mx Espai, Barcelona, Spain.
2003Art in progress. Cultural Center Gral. San Martin, Buenos Aires.
-Art at the plate. Water, video-installation. Recoleta Cultural Center. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Dibujístico. Materia urbana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Aurora Argentine video art. Pan American Cultural Exchange. Touring Art presentation Video: Texas, and Chicago, United States.
2002 A vision of the humane. Art Detroy, Silvia Rivas and Carlos Trilnick. Generalitat Valenciana, in arteBA, International Art Fair of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Last tendencies in the MAMBA collection: Donations. Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Klem Foundation Award. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Banco Ciudad Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Video Emergency, curator: Graciela Taquini, Mopt Gallery. Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
20012001 Season, La Casona de los Olivera. Parque Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Self-portraits, curator: Corinne Abadi. Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-New Media Hall. Eduado Sivori Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Banco Ciudad Foundation Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Chandon Award. Museum of Fine Arts Juan. B. Castagnino , Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
2000LIV National Hall of Rosario. Museum of Fine Arts Juan. B. Castagnino, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
-Prodaltec Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Costantini Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Artists of the Gallery. Galería Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, United States.
-Argentine poets. Avon Foundation. Art Corner, Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina.
1999 Costantini Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Fortabat Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-University of Palermo Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998 Costantini Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Plural Female Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Photographic Memory. Meza Fine Arts. Miami, Unites States.
-Signs, marks and symbols, AACA, Philo Art Space, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997Manuel Belgrano Hall, Museum of Fine Arts Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-LXXXVI National Exhibition of Fine Arts: Painting. National Exhibition Hall, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-National Hall of Painting. Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Emilio Caraffa, Cordoba, Argentina.
-Siemens Award, Banners for Peace. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Novartis Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996 Austria Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-II Salón de Mar, Auditorium Theater, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-First Exhibition of Painting of Critics, National Halls of Culture, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-LXXXV National Hall of Visual Arts “Painting-Sculpture”, Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
-Manuel Belgrano Hall, Museum of Fine Arts Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-70/80/90 (70 artists of the 80‘s and 90‘s). Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1995LXXXV National Hall of Visual Arts. Touring exhibition, Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Emilio Caraffa, Cordoba, Argentina.
-Rosa Galisteo de Rodriguez Museum, Santa Fe, Argentina.
-Banco Mayorista del Plata Award. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Prize for Young Painting Argentina. Fortabat Foundation, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires.
-70/80/90 (70 artists of the 80‘s and 90‘s). MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1994 National Hall of Drawing. Museum of Fine Arts in San Juan, Argentina.
-Installations II. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Award for the Awarded. Nuevo Mundo Foundation. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Installations III. International Congress of the Critic. Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Jeune Peinture. Eiffel Branly Space, Paris, France.
-80 Boxes by 80 Artists. Filo, Art space, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1993 Otium Award. Cultural Center of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Günter Award. CAYC. Art and Communication Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Installations. Proposals of 28 artists for the end of the decade. National Halls of Culture, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1992Nuevo Mundo Foundation Award to the Young Argentine Painting. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Siemens Award. The observed observer. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-The emerging voices. In the framework of the Days of the Critic. Harrods in Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1991Latin American Drawings Today. San Diego Museum of Art. California, United States.
-Premio Fundación Nuevo Mundo a la Joven Pintura Argentina. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Cintoplom Award. Harrods in Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Blades Award. Harrods in Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1990 Artists of the Nuevo Mundo Foundation. CAYC. Art and Communication Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Artistas en Babilonia. Espacio Babilonia, Buenos Aires
-Manuel Belgrano Hall, Museum of Fine Arts Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-VI Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts. Edmundo Navarro Correas Foundation, MNBA - National Museum ofFine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-National Hall. Emilio Caraffa Museum, Córdoba, Argentina.
-Nuevo Mundo Foundation Award for Young Painting Argentina. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts ofBuenos Aires, Argentina.
-Exhibition of video installation, curators: Jorge Glusberg and Laura Buccelato. MNBA - National Museumof Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1989 Manliba Award. Recoleta Cultural Centre of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Argentine artists at the Bronx Museum. New York, United States.
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Award for the Young Argentine Painting. Fortabat Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Reality and Representation. Centoira Gallery. X Congress of Critic, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-XXII International Congress AICA.
-Movado Award to the Young Generation. XXII International Congress AICA.
-Argentine artists to the world by Human Rights, Now. Malvinas Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-The emerging voices. Cultural Center of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1987 Plastics Hall of San Isidro. Malvinas Cultural Center.
-University Hall. University of Belgrano.
1987 Manliba Prize. Malvinas Cultural Center. Architecture Biennale.
1986 Plastics Hall of San Isidro. Malvinas Cultural Center.
-Never Again Hall. Malvinas Cultural Center.
-National Hall of Painting. MNBA - National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Autumn Hall of San Fernando. Municipalidad de Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1985Special Guest in the Kenneth Kemble Exhibition at Praxis Art Gallery. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-International Day of Peace, Young Artists. Cultural Center of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Exhibition of Awarded Artists A.P.S.I., Raggio Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Exhibition of Drawers in the House of Culture of San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Manuel Belgrano Hall, Museum of Fine Arts Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Esso Award. Cultural Center of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1984 Erotic Art Hall. El Pasaje Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Preseleccionada Premio Coca-Cola en las Artes y las Letras.
-Artists of San Isidro. Cultural Center of El Tigre.
-Selection of artists, Flores Art Gallery.
1983 Kenneth Kemble Exhibition 30 years of atelier.
-Young artists. Kenneth Kemble Museum´s curatorship. Touring exhibition: Eduardo Sívori Museum, Cultural Center of Buenos Aires, Provincial Museum of Fine Arts de La Plata, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism.
Scholarships and awards
2012 Diploma of Merit Konex, Decade 2002 / 2012. Konex Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2007 Second Award of the National Exhibition Hall of Visual Arts. New media and installations, National Exhibition Hall of Visual Arts, Argentina.
- Faena Award, El Porteño Art District, Group Project Argentina is Outside, with Inés Sanguinetti and Gabriel Espinosa, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005Scholarship for posproduction in video, Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio, United States.
- Mention of National Exhibition of Visual Arts, New Media and Installations. National Visual Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2002 Diploma to the merit Konex, Mixed media, Técnicas mixtas: Quinquennium 1997/2001. Konex Fundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Leonardo Award, Digital Video. National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Award to the Argentine Video, Biennial Art. National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001 Award for Visual Arts. Argentine Association of Art Critics, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Scholarship. Video installation. New York, United States.
-Award to the Argentine Digital Art. First International Biennale of Buenos Aires. National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Mention of the Hall of New Media. Eduardo Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1999 First Telecom Argentina Painting Prize. National Halls of Culture, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997 First Siemens Prize. Banners for Peace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1991 Mexico City Scholarship Award, Mexico.
-Cintoplom Prize, Gold Medal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Special Prize Antonio Segui. Nuevo Mundo Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Blades prize. Special Jury Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1989 Manliba Prize, Silver Medal. University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1988 Movado Prize, Mention to the Younger Generation. XXII Congress AICA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1987 Drawing Prize. University Hall, University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Manliba Prize, Silver Medal. Argentina Association of Art Critics, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1986 Second Prize in Painting. Autumn Hall in San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1984 Mention in Painting. Erotic Art Hall, Passage Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
-Third Prize in Drawing. Artists of San Isidro, House of Culture of San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1977 First Prize in Drawing. Competition for Students of Fine Arts, National Hall, Buenos Aires, Argentina.