Biography:
Artist Corinne Silva is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London. She was artist-in-residence at Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Centro Negra, Murcia, Spain (2015); Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania, (2014); and A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, (2013 and 2014). In 2014 she received a Triangle International Fellowship. In 2012 she was a nominee of the Foam Paul Huf Award and a Mack First Book Award finalist. Recent group and solo exhibitions include Garden State, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, and The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK (2015); ReGeneration3, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; My Sister Who Travels, The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK (2014); Gardening the Suburbs, Makan Art Space, Amman, Jordan; I See Europe!, Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart, Germany (2013); Brighton Photo Biennial, UK (2012); The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2012); Flash Forward Festival, Toronto (2011); Wandering Abroad, National Media Museum/Ways of Looking Festival, Bradford, UK (2011) and Leeds Art Gallery, UK (2009); Imported Landscapes, Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010); Badlands, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Netherlands (2010).
About the residency:
During her time as artist in residence at Kaunas Photography Gallery, Corinne Silva developed and edited her book project Garden State. The book relates to her solo exhibition of the same name, and will be published by Ffotogallery and The Mosaic Rooms, in partnership with UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre, in 2015.
