Shelly Silver (born 1957 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American artist who
works with film, video, and photography. Her art has been exhibited
and broadcast throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. She is Associate
Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the
Arts.Silver attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a
B.A. in Intellectual History, and a B.F.A. in Mixed Media and
subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent
Studio Program. She has worked as a commercial video editor. In the
1990s, she lived in Germany, France, and Japan.Silver has taught video
art at the German Film and Television Academy, the New York University
Tisch School of the Arts, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art, and presently at Columbia University. She has
received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the DAAD, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan
Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. She currently lives in New York
City.Silver uses a mixture of fiction, documentary, and experimental
genres to investigate questions of cultural identity. She experiments
with perspective, exploring the power dynamics that exist between
filmmakers and their subjects. Her role as a traveler and an outsider
inspired the works she made abroad, such as Former East/Former West
(1994) and 37 Stories About Leaving Home (1996). Her recent work
centers on New York’s Chinatown.
works with film, video, and photography. Her art has been exhibited
and broadcast throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. She is Associate
Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the
Arts.Silver attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a
B.A. in Intellectual History, and a B.F.A. in Mixed Media and
subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent
Studio Program. She has worked as a commercial video editor. In the
1990s, she lived in Germany, France, and Japan.Silver has taught video
art at the German Film and Television Academy, the New York University
Tisch School of the Arts, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art, and presently at Columbia University. She has
received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the DAAD, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan
Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. She currently lives in New York
City.Silver uses a mixture of fiction, documentary, and experimental
genres to investigate questions of cultural identity. She experiments
with perspective, exploring the power dynamics that exist between
filmmakers and their subjects. Her role as a traveler and an outsider
inspired the works she made abroad, such as Former East/Former West
(1994) and 37 Stories About Leaving Home (1996). Her recent work
centers on New York’s Chinatown.
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