VIVIANE SIVERA is an artist and filmmaker who gives voice to universal experiences of imagining and remembering by exploring scientific discoveries that can fundamentally change our relationship to memory.

Her film See Memory and its new companion piece, The Science Behind See Memory, will make its broadcast premiere on PBS in Fall 2024.

Silvera has exhibited her work for 22 years. Most recently her video Time Away from Time was presented at Art Basel Miami 2022 and her video Memory Without Walls at Berlin Art Week.

She has exhibited at the Edward Hopper House, the Albright Knox, Dahesh, and Masur Museums, and El Museo de la Ciudad - Mexico. Her videos have been installed at the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MGM National Harbor, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Mary Washington, The Cube Art Project with Union Bank, 4Culture Gallery in Pioneer Square, Seattle, Altspace VR (Microsoft’s VR Platform), Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, and Davidson College, among other venues.

Her hand painted film See Memory premiered at the Imagine Science Film Festival and is distributed through New Day Films. Her videos have been licensed by McCann Advertising and installed in hotels, universities, and museums across the globe.

Silvera has received numerous grants and awards, including the Award of Excellence in Painting from the Edward Hopper House, the Chaim Gross, Valerie Delacorte, and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Awards from the National Academy School of Fine Arts, a Fantasy Foundation Grant, and a Newington Cropsey Grant. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art Daily, Gotham Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, Time Out New York.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of Penn University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Tufts University, Vassar College, Davidson College, The Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, the Ziff Davis Corporate Collection and Tribeca Flashpoint Media Academy.

Silvera’s outdoor sculpture The Fault was commissioned by and permanently installed at Vanderbilt University, where she collaborated with landscape designers, architects, and engineers to realize her design.  

Silvera earned a BS from Tufts University in Political Science and Psychology and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Brazil. She is based in New York City.