Corinne Silva


Corinne Silva is a British artist living and working in London. Her practice is concerned with landscape as a complex interrelation of culture and geography, politics and botany, living beings and inanimate matter. Silva explores these themes through photography, video, installation and performance. She studied Photography in Europe BA at Nottingham Trent University, MA in Photography at the University of Brighton. She gained her PhD from UAL’s London College of Communication in 2014. Corinne Silva is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London.
Silva received a ; was artist-in-residence at A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, ; , Lithuania, ; and , Centro Negra, Murcia, Spain. She was nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award and was a finalist.
Recent group and solo exhibitions include Garden State, Ffotogallery, Wales, and , London ; ReGeneration3, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, Quad, Derby ; My Sister Who Travels, , London ; Gardening the Suburbs, Makan Art Space, Amman ; I See Europe! Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart ; Brighton Photo Biennial ; The Photographer’s Gallery, ; Flash Forward festival, Toronto and Boston ; Wandering Abroad, National Media Museum/Ways of Looking Festival, Bradford, UK ; Imported Landscapes, Manifesta 8, ; Badlands, Noorderlicht Photofestival ; Wandering Abroad, Leeds Art Gallery, UK.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2015 Garden State, Ffotogallery, Wales and , London
2014 Gardening the Suburbs, Makan Art Space, Amman, Jordan
2010 Imported Landscapes, Manifesta 8 Paralelos, Murcia, Spain
2009 Wandering Abroad, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
2008 Croydonisation, Museum of Croydon, London
2008 Róisín Bán, Leeds City Museum, Leeds, UK
2006 Róisín Bán, Format Photography Festival, Derby, UK; European Parliament, Brussels; Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds, UK

Two Person Exhibitions

2017 Silva+Sajovic: Plant/Lives, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
2016 , Lower Gallery & PARC space, LCC, University of the Arts London
2015 Silva+Sajovic: One Thousand Flowers From A Test Tube, 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London
2012 Uneven Development, with Jason Larkin, Brighton Photo Biennial, UK
2010 Journeys out...Journeys, with Mariele Neudecker, Leeds Art Gallery, UK

Group Exhibitions/ Screenings

2016 reGeneration3, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK
2015 reGeneration3, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
2015 reGeneration3, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 Documenting Britain, Streetlevel Photoworks, Gallery 103, Glasgow, Scotland
2014 , Mosaic Rooms, London
2013 I See Europe! Kunstbezirk, Fotosommer Stuttgart 2013, Germany
2012 The World in London, The Photographer’s Gallery
2011 Open Here, Hereford Photography Festival, UK
2011 Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada & Boston, USA
2011 Ways of Looking photography festival, Bradford, UK
2010 Reading Landscape, Architectural Association, London
2010 Noorderlicht International Photofestival, Leuwarden, The Netherlands
2010 Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010 Projected Landscapes, Architectural Association, London
2009 Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands
2009 Between the Hallucinatory and the Real, University of Brighton, UK
2008 Coded, Brighton Media Centre Gallery, Brighton, UK
2008 From War to Windrush, Imperial War Museum, London
2007 Journeys of Change, Imperial War Museum, London
2006 North By North West, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK

Books & catalogues

2016 Garden State
2014 European Chronicles: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent, Ffotogallery
2014 , , London
2011 Ways of Looking: Evidence
2011 Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2011
2010 Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2010
2010 Land: Country Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht Photofestival
2009 The Pursuit of Happiness, Noorderlicht Photofestival
2009 Wandering Abroad
2006 Róisín Bán

Reviews, Essays & Features

2015 Source photographic review, Source 82 - Spring 2015
2015 A window onto Israeli settlers’ gardens, Amelia Smith, The Middle East Monitor
2015 Stamping a new identity on Palestine’s landscape, Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada
2014 Aesthetica magazine, Issue 60, August / September 2014
2013 Zoom magazine, Winter 2013, #109 International Edition, Landscape Special Issue
2012 Spaces of Global Capital: On the Photography of Corinne Silva & Jason Larkin, TJ Demos, Photoworks 19,
2012 Visible Economies: Photography, Economic Conditions, Urban Experiences, Eugenie Shinkle"Visible Economies, Invisible Topographies"
2013 Landscape Photography's 'New Humanism', Chad Elias, Either/And, National Media Museum
2012 Reflections on Corinne Silva's Wandering Abroad, Lauren Rotenberg, New Media Gallery
2012 Corinne Silva in-conversation with Edwin Coomisaru and Charley Lintern, New Media Gallery
2012 Corinne Silva: The Uncompromising Image, Tom Snow, New Media Gallery
2009 Quiet Flows the Aire, Nigel Walsh, Wandering Abroad catalogue