Silvina Sícoli

Silvina Sícoli (CABA, 1967) trained as a fashion designer at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina, in 1995). She studied painting for a Master's degree at the Iowa School of Art (USA, 1998) and for a Master's degree in Art at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany (2000). She attended painting workshops with Rosines Monner Sans and a work clinic with Tulio de Sagastizabal and Marina De Caro. She taught at the FADU/UBA in the Fashion Design program, in the Novik/Monner Sans chairs, and at Iowa University in the live drawing and painting I classes (1996-97). She designed fanzines and held exhibitions with the artist Walter Dahn's class in Cologne, Munich, and Braunschweig, Germany. She worked for the Pierogi 2000 gallery in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY, 2001) and organized exhibitions at the Belleza y Felicidad gallery with Fernanda Laguna, where she was also a represented artist, and held various curatorial positions. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at institutions and galleries, including Belleza y Felicidad, Casa 13, B y F Fiorito, Fundacion Proa, Agatha Costure, Galería Selvanegra, Kentler Gallery, Reservoir space, Kunstverein Braunschweig, and institutions such as the Museo Marítimo de Ushuaia, the Museo Castagnino, the Museo de las Mujeres in Córdoba, the Centro Cultural España Córdoba, and the Museo de la Cárcova. Her work has been selected for the 2022 Itaú and 2023 SNAV prizes. She currently works in her studio in downtown Buenos Aires and directs the Selvanegra gallery with her sister Josefina, with whom she founded it in 2017.