Viviane Silvera

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About Viviane Silvera

I help artists, neuroscientists, and curious minds explore the intersection of memory, trauma, and storytelling through art and film. By blending visual storytelling with cutting-edge research, I make complex ideas accessible, emotional, and transformative. Unlike traditional artists or academics, my work bridges science and creativity, offering a unique perspective that sparks meaningful conversations, deepens understanding, and inspires change. Bio: Viviane Silvera is an award–winning artist and filmmaker who explores the science memory through the lens of art, giving voice to universal experiences of remembering and PTSD. Her film "See Memory" will have its broadcast premiere on PBS in May 2025. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Duke University, The Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, Davidson College, Vanderbilt University, the Ziff Davis Corporate Collection and Tribeca Flashpoint Media Academy. Viviane's outdoor sculpture “The Fault” is permanently installed at Vanderbilt University, where she collaborated with landscape designers, architects, and engineers to realize her design. Viviane received 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 Art Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Gotham Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, Time Out New York and The New York Times. Viviane's hand-painted videos have been installed at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Art Basel Miami and Art Week Berlin and MGM National Harbor. Viviane 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 presently based in New York City You can host a "See Memory" screening and talk with Viviane about her collaboration with neuroscientists and psychiatrists and how how art can convey the new science of memory.