Silvia Poloto

Silvia Poloto is an artist who was born in São Paulo, Brazil and immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1992.[1] She was educated at the University of São Paulo, Brazil where she earned a B. S. Electrical Engineering. She also earned her M.B.A. at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Getulio Vargas Foundation), also in São Paulo, Brazil. From 1996-1999, she worked as an Instructor's Assistant in the Sculpture Department, City College, San Francisco.[2] During that period, she also worked as a welder at 3D Studios in Oakland[3] and an art instructor in mixed media at the Associated Students of the University of California Art Studio at the University of California, Berkeley.[4]

Hard Liquid #11, Mixed media on canvas, 2003, by Silvia Poloto. Private Collection (San Francisco, California)

She works in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, and painting, and she also creates video art.[5] Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Italy, Singapore, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and China, among others.[6] In the San Francisco Bay Area, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Italian American Museum, and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence in 2001. Poloto's work has been acquired by more than 50 institutional and corporate collections around the US and by more than 800 private collectors around the world.[7]

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

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2005

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1999

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fairmountgallery.com/poloto_bio.html Retrieved October 26, 2009
  2. ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2003 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/28/PK302622.DTL&type=printable Retrieved October 26, 2009
  3. ↑ http://www.3dstudiosoakland.com/ retrieved September 30, 2009
  4. ↑ http://asuc.berkeley.edu/asinside.aspx?uid=35 Retrieved September 30, 2009
  5. ↑ http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/24308/10846/4159/spur-projects-portola-valley/artist/silvia-poloto/biography/ Retrieved October 26, 2009
  6. ↑ http://www.mesart.com/biography.jsp.que.artist.eq.169.shtml Retrieved October 26, 2009
  7. ↑ http://www.buttersgallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=433&Object=#Bio Retrieved October 26, 2009

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