Vicki DaSilva

Visual Artist @ Self / Based in NYC

Vicki DaSilva is a light graffiti and light painting photography pioneer. She has been making single frame time exposure photographs at night since 1980. She is credited with creating the term ‘light graffiti'. Her art practice has... read on
Focus: Photographer, Street Art, Fine Art
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EXHIBITIONS: SOLO

2015 East River Flows, NYC Art in the Parks, 116th Street & East River Esplanade, Manhattan

2014 Fountain Art Fair, NYC, March 7-9

2013 The Four Seasons Restaurant Lobby NYC, Woodward Gallery, NYC, April 1 - June 1

2013 Fountain Art Fair, NYC, March 8-10

2012 Art Takes Times Square electronic billboards including NASDAQ Tower, Reuters + NASDAQ Marquee (43rd Street + Broadway), Port Authority (42nd St + 8th Avenue) and Clear Channel / CNN (47th + Broadway) June 18-July 1, 2012

2011 Reverb, Able Fine Art NY Gallery, 511 W 25th Street, NYC

2008 Speed of Light, Flanders 311, 311 West Martin St. Raleigh, NC,

2006 Fluorescence, Art Gotham, 547 W 27th Street, NYC

2004 Non-Function Follows Form, Tompkins Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA

GROUP

2016 Allentown X7, Allentown Art Museum, Nov 13, 2016-Feb 5, 2017

2015 Art Miami New York, Cheryl Hazan Contemporary, May 14-17

2015 (un)SCENE Art Show, March 4-8

2014 SCOPE Miami Beach, Cheryl Hazan Contemporary, Dec 2- 7

2014 Thaw, Curated by Jill Conner, Dorsky Gallery, LIC, NY, Jan 19 - April 6

2013-2014 Rouge, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, Dec 14 - Jan 4

2013 CONTEXT Art Miami, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach Dec 3 - 8

2013 The Language of Painting, Curated by Carol Salmanson, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC, Oct 18 - Dec 2

2013 Femalenergy 3, Woodward Gallery, NYC May 4 - June 30

2013 Lingo, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, NYC March 13 - April 20

2013 Snap! Orlando Photography Festival May 2-5, headliner artist

2013 Real Time, Artist Studios, pop-up show 526 West 26th Street, NYC

2012 A Virtual Exhibition, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University Art Galleries, October 31-December 9, 2012

2012 Fountain Art Fair, NYC

2011 Independence Day, Able Fine Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2011 Keystone Biennial, Silver Eye Center for Photography

2010-2011 Outsight Inn, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ

2010 The Takeover, Art Whino, Art Basel Miami Beach

2010 Back to New York, HP Garcia Gallery, NYC

2010 Escape from New York, curated by Olympia Lambert, Paterson, NJ

2009 Currents in Contemporary Photography, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2008 Refracted Planes: Vicki DaSilva & Mia Yoon, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2008 Darkness, Darkness, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

2008 PHOTOGRAPHY NOW 2008' Center for Photography at Woodstock, Juror: Darren Ching Creative Director, PDN and co-owner/co-director KLOMPCHING Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

AWARDS/RECOGNITION/SPECIAL PROJECTS

2015 International Photography Awards, Lucie Foundation, Two Honorable Mentions, Moving Images & Night Photography

2015 OxFam International, Act with Syria: Turn the Lights on for Syria, London, March 15

2013 International Photography Awards, Lucie Foundation, Three Honorable Mentions, Fine Art & Night Photography

2012 International Photography Awards, Lucie Foundation, Honorable Mention, Night Photography

2012 Art Takes Times Square international competition Solo Grand Prize Winner from 35,000 entries.

2008 myartspace.com, Bridge Art Fair Miami competition, one of 50 finalists, Jurors: Elisabeth Sussman, Senior Curator, The Whitney Museum; Janet Bishop, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA; Michael Workman, Founder, Bridge Art Fair

2008 Hasselblad Masters '08 Semi-Finalist

2007 myartspace.com, New York, New York 2007 competition, one of 50 finalists, Jurors: James Rondeau; Art Institute of Chicago, Jessica Morgan; Tate Modern, Steven Zevitas; New American Paintings

2005 Allentown Art Museum, Third Place, 29th Annual Juried Show

2003 PA Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Photography Fellowship

2001 PA Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Photography Fellowship

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Paper: The Best Anti-Trump Art from Around the World, by Carlo McCormick, July 4, 2016

Huffington Post: Donald Trump ‘Loser’ by artist Vicki DaSilva in Front of His Building by Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington/BrooklynStreetArt.com, March 2, 2016

Hedge Magazine 37: The Mayfair Issue: Going Public by Melissa Scallan, October, 2015

Artnet News: Vicki DaSilva’s Light Graffiti Promotes Campaign for Syria, by Sarah Cascone, March 19, 2015

Artnet News: Artist Renders East River Flows in Light Graffiti, by Sarah Cascone, August 1, 2014

Photo District News Edu, Fall Edition 2013, Feature, 'One to Watch'

Lehigh Valley Style Magazine, Feature: Making Her Mark with Light, April 2013

New York Times, Arts, cover, June 18, 2012

Whitehot Magazine, August 2011

New York Photo Review, Volume 2 Issue 29, July 20, 2011

Lenscratch.com, July 14, 2011

Culturecatch.com, The Sound You See Reverberating by Dominick Lombardi, June 2011

FrameMagazine.com, June 26, 2011

Missy Magazine, Germany, 2011

EnvironmentalGraffiti.com feature interview, April 28, 2009 by Karl Fabricius

FormatMag.com feature interview, October 7, 2008 by Christian Barclay

Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM/Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2006

EDUCATION

BFA, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1983