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).
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2015 Garden State, Ffotogallery, Wales and The Mosaic Rooms, London
2014 Gardening the Suburbs, Makan Art Space, Amman, Jordan
2010 Imported Landscapes, Manifesta 8 Paralelos, Murcia, Spain
2009 Wandering Abroad, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (catalogue)
2008 Croydonisation, Museum of Croydon, London
2008 Róisín Bán, Leeds City Museum, Leeds, UK
2006 Róisín Bán, Format Photography Festival, Derby, UK; European Parliament, Brussels; Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds, UK (publication)
Two Person Exhibitions
2016 Silva+Sajovic: Five Hundred Flowers and the Mother Plant, Lower Gallery & PARC space, LCC, University of the Arts London
2015 Silva+Sajovic: One Thousand Flowers From A Test Tube,198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London
2012 Uneven Development, with Jason Larkin, Brighton Photo Biennial, UK (catalogue)
2010 Journeys out…Journeys, with Mariele Neudecker, Leeds Art Gallery, UK
Group Exhibitions/ Screenings
2016 reGeneration3, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK
2015 reGeneration3, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 Documenting Britain, Streetlevel Photoworks, Gallery 103, Glasgow, Scotland (catalogue)
2014 My Sister Who Travels, Mosaic Rooms, London (catalogue)
2013 I See Europe! Kunstbezirk, Fotosommer Stuttgart 2013, Germany (catalogue)
2012 The World in London, The Photographer’s Gallery
2011 Open Here, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
2011 Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada & Boston, USA (catalogue)
2011 Ways of Looking photography festival, Bradford, UK (catalogue)
2010 Reading Landscape, Architectural Association, London
2010 Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Leuwarden, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2010 Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
2010 Projected Landscapes, Architectural Association, London
2009 Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2009 Between the Hallucinatory and the Real, University of Brighton, UK (catalogue)
2008 Coded, Brighton Media Centre Gallery, Brighton, UK
2008 From War to Windrush, Imperial War Museum, London
2007 Journeys of Change, Imperial War Museum, London
2006 North By North West, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK
Books & catalogues
2015 Garden State (monograph)
2014 European Chronicles: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent, Ffotogallery
2014 My Sister Who Travels, The Mosaic Rooms, London
2011 Ways of Looking: Evidence ISBN 0-906361-22-2
2011 Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2011 ISBN 9781926856032
2010 Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2010 ISBN 9781926856025
2010 Land: Country Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht Photofestival ISBN 9789076703435
2009 The Pursuit of Happiness, Noorderlicht Photofestival ISBN 978-90-76703-40-4
2009 Wandering Abroad ISBN 9780901981837
2006 Róisín Bán ISBN 0955252903 (monograph)
Reviews, Essays & Features
2015 Source photographic review, Source 82 - Spring 2015
2015 A window onto Israeli settlers’ gardens, Amelia Smith, The Middle East Monitor[1]
2015 Stamping a new identity on Palestine’s landscape, Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada[2]
2014 Aesthetica magazine, Issue 60, August / September 2014
2013 Zoom magazine, Winter 2013, #109 International Edition, Landscape Special Issue
2012 Spaces of Global Capital: On the Photography of Corinne Silva & Jason Larkin, TJ Demos, Photoworks 19, ISBN 9781903796368
2012 Visible Economies: Photography, Economic Conditions, Urban Experiences, Eugenie Shinkle"Visible Economies, Invisible Topographies" ISBN 9781903796481
2013 Landscape Photography's 'New Humanism', Chad Elias, Either/And, National Media Museum
2012 Reflections on Corinne Silva's Wandering Abroad, Lauren Rotenberg, New Media Gallery
2012 Corinne Silva in-conversation with Edwin Coomisaru and Charley Lintern, New Media Gallery
2012 Corinne Silva: The Uncompromising Image,Tom Snow, New Media Gallery
2009 Quiet Flows the Aire, Nigel Walsh, Wandering Abroad catalogue
References
- ^ Smith, Amelia (8 May 2015). "A window onto Israeli settlers' gardens". The Middle East Monitor. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ^ Irving, Sarah (28 May 2015). "Stamping a new identity on Palestine's landscape". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
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