Silvia Rivas

Silvia Rivas (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1957) is an Argentine visual artist known for her multi-channel video installations. In Latin America she is considered a precursor in the area of expanded video. Her work is characterized by the crossing of materialities and technologies in which she uses both electronic devices and ancestral techniques. Her production is organized in thematic series of video installations, drawings, photographs or objects. Interested in revealing the metaphorical power of different materialities, she uses the electronic medium and the moving image to record stillness, the imminent and the subjective perception of time.

Among other distinctions, in 2001 she received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Konex Award, diploma of merit for the five-year period 1997–2001 and, in 2002, the Argentine Video Award at the Art Biennial of the National Museum of Fine Arts; in 2005, the video post-production residency grant from the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. In 2006 and 2007, she was awarded third and second prize, respectively, at the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales in New Media and Installations. In 2012 he received again, the Konex Award diploma to the merit corresponding to the decade 2002–2012.

She has represented Argentina in the Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, 3rd and 5th editions, in the 8th Havana Biennial, and in Bienalsur 2019.

Her work is part of national and international collections, both public and private. Among them the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art.