Lauren Silva
{{Short description|American painter}}
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Lauren Silva (born 1987 in Vallejo, California) is an American painter{{cite web|url=http://ziehersmith.com/cvs/ZieherSmith-LaurenSilva-CV.pdf |title=Resume |website=ziehersmith.com |access-date=2019-07-16}} based in New York City, United States.
Career
Lauren Silva obtained a Bachelor in Visual Art from the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA, Silva was mentored by painting professor Lari Pittman.
Silva is a visiting critic in the Visual Arts department at Columbia University, where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts.{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/mfathesis2013/students-silva.html|title=2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition - Columbia University School of the Arts Visual|website=www.columbia.edu}}{{cite web|url=https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/104940/advanced-painting-intensive-new-york|title=Advanced Painting Intensive: New York - Announcements - Art & Education|website=www.artandeducation.net}}{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/manic-cheerfulness-video-art-and-painting-on-silk-1452895458|title=Manic Cheerfulness, Video Art and Painting on Silk|first=Peter|last=Plagens|website=WSJ}}
Silva mainly produces painted work on silk and large-scale paintings in abstracted forms.{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201604/lauren-silva-58726|title=Jeff Gibson on Lauren Silva|website=www.artforum.com}} Roberta Smith of the New York Times called her "a painter to watch" as her painting exhibits "astuteness and aplomb." She writes, "Ms. Silva's elaborately layered compositions force various techniques, styles and spatial notions into carefully orchestrated collisions."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/arts/design/lauren-silva-i-tried-to-catch-the-fog-i-mist.html|title=Lauren Silva: 'I tried to catch the fog. I mist.'|first=Roberta|last=Smith|date=March 6, 2014|via=NYTimes.com}}
Silva is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration at Columbia Business School.
Awards
2013 Toby Devan Lewis Award, Columbia University, New York, NY
2011-13 Visual Arts Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2011 Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2009-10 Emma B. Keller Award
References
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Category:Painters from New York City
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:People from Vallejo, California
Category:Painters from California
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni