Silvia Poloto
Silvia Poloto is an artist born in São Paulo, Brazil who immigrated to San Francisco, California, in 1992.[1] She was educated at the University of São Paulo, where she earned a B.S. in electrical engineering. She earned her M.B.A. at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Getulio Vargas Foundation) in São Paulo. From 1996 to 1999, she worked as an instructor's assistant in the Sculpture Department, City College of 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]
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 the 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 SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, 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
2018
- Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK ( solo )
- SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA ( solo )
- Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA ( two-person )
- stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
- DZINE, San Francisco, CA
- AAF via Dialecto Gallery, New York City, NY
- Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
2017
- Modernism at Foreign Cinema, San Francisco, CA ( solo )
- Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
- DZINE, San Francisco, CA
2016
- SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA ( two-person )
- Butters Gallery, Portland, OR ( solo )
- JCO Fine Art, Los Gatos, CA ( solo )
- Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
- Scope New York, Dialecto Gallery, New York, NY
- stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
- DZINE, San Francisco, CA
2015
- Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
- ArtMrktSF, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- stARTup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
- AAF Hong Kong, Dialecto Gallery, Hong Kong, China
- AAF New York, Dialecto Gallery, New York, NY
- Art Taipei, Dialecto Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
- Scope Miami, Dialecto gallery, Miami, FL
- The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles, CA
2014
- Butters Gallery, Portland, OR ( solo )
- Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK ( solo )
- Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2013
- SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA ( two-person )
2012
- Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA ( solo )
- Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT ( solo )
- Butters Gallery, Portland, OR ( solo )
- 5 Claude, San Francisco, CA ( solo )
- McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco, CA ( solo )
- SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Soprafina Gallery, Chicago, MA
- Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
- A New Leaf Gallery, Sonoma, CA
- Maiden Tower, Baku, Azerbaijan
- Artspace 191, Vienna, Austria
- Ruzicka Gallery, Munich, Germany
2011
- Lecture/Solo Exhibition at Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, WA (solo)
- Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA ( solo )
- Caffe Museo at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA ( solo )
- Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK ( solo )
- Qatar Visual Art Center, Doha, Qatar
- Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK
- Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2010
- Butters Gallery, Portland, OR ( solo )
- Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
- Zervas Art Gallery, Patras, Greece
- Arc Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- AAF NYC, Julie Nester Gallery, New York City, NY
2009
- Foresight Gallery, Amman, Jordan
- AAF NYC Julie Nester Gallery, New York City, NY
- AAF NYC Cancio Contemporary, New York City, NY
- Brazilian Embassy, San Francisco, CA
- Gozo Contemporary, Gozo, Malta
2008
- 415 Gallery, San Francisco, CA ( solo )
- Dezart One Gallery, Palm Springs, CA ( solo )
- Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Seattle Arts Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Ogilvie Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Mexican Embassy, San Francisco, CA
- Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
- Dar Al Landa Gallery, Amman, Jordan
- Trogir Municipal Museum and Palace Milesi, Split, Croatia
2007
- Connecting Art Gallery Ptolemaida, Greece
- Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
- International Exhibition, Cappadocia, Turkey
- AAF NYC Julie Nester Gallery, New York City, NY
- AAF NYC Cancio Contemporary, New York City, NY
- Summer Introductions at Seattle Arts Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA
- East/West at Etra Fine Arts, Miami, FL (two-person)
- Silvia Poloto Solo at Fairmount Gallery, TX (solo)
- Introduction Show at Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2006
- Optic Collisons at Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, California (solo)
- Paprika: paintings, assemblages and submarine vessels at Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA (solo)
- Connecting Cultures at the United Nations, New York City, NY
- Crush, at Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two-person)
- 8th International Art Symposim of Modern Art and Exhibition, Carei, Romania
- FlowArt Fair at Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL
- Group Show at Espace Europia, Paris, France
- Dialogue – Connecting Art at Vlassis Gallery, Greece
- Red Sky – Connecting Art at Galerie 13 bis Contemporain, Saint Pierre, La Reunion
2005
- Bulgaria International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Russalka, Bulgaria
- Hong Kong International Biennial, Hong Kong, Republic of China
- Genie de La Bastille Invitational, Paris, France
- La Muestra International de Arte, Venado Tuerto, Argentina
- Women's Work Now, 555 California St, San Francisco, CA
- Observations, 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA (solo)
- SPUR Salon, Woodside, CA (solo)
2004
- Dubai International Art Symposium and Exhibition, Dubai, UAE
- Hearts in San Francisco Installation Project, San Francisco, CA
- Unresolved: Poloto in Soho, sponsored by SPUR, New York City, NY (solo)
- New Work, Stanford University, Betchel International Center, Stanford, CA
- Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
- 1212 Gallery, Burlingame, CA
- Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
- BIG: Group Show curated by Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Gallery 494, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
- Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2003
- Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy
- Gallery 555 – Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
- HANG Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
- Contract Design Center, San Francisco, CA
2002
- Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Gallery img, Sunnyvale, CA ( solo)
2001
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor Residency Program, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2000
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1999
- Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (solo)
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References
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- San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2003. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 28, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) retrieved September 30, 2009
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Retrieved September 30, 2009
- https://ginnava.com/artist/silvia-poloto Retrieved April 27, 2020
- http://www.mesart.com/biography.jsp.que.artist.eq.169.shtml. Retrieved October 26, 2009
- http://www.buttersgallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=433&Object=#Bio. Retrieved October 26, 2009
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