Regina Silveira graduated in Fine Arts from the UFRGS Arts Institute (1959), with master’s and doctorate degrees from the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo – USP, Brazil. She has taught at the UFRGS Arts Institute (1964-1969), the University of Puerto Rico (1969-1973) and Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado – FAAP, São Paulo (1973-1985), and has been a professor at the School of Communication and Arts, USP since 1974.
The artist has participated in several important art exhibitions, such as Bienal de São Paulo (1981, 1983, 1998, 2021), Bienal Internacional de Curitiba (2013, 2015), Bienal do Mercosul (2001, 2011), Porto Alegre, Brazil; Bienal de La Habana, Cuba (1986, 1998 and 2015); Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland (2012); VI Taipei Biennial, Taiwan, (2006); and II Setouchi Triennial, Japan (2016).
Some of her most recent group exhibitions include Walking through Walls, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2019; Die Macht der Vervielfältigung, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany, 2019; and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, 2017.
Her latest solo exhibitions are: Regina Silveira: other Paradoxes, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC-USP), São Paulo, Brazil, 2021; Limiares, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil 2020; Up there, Farol Santander, São Paulo, Brazil, 2019; Exit, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura (MuBE), São Paulo, Brazil, 2018; Unrealized / NãoFeito, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA, 2019; Todas as escadas, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, 2018.
She has received several awards, including: Prêmio Masp (2013), Prêmio APCA for her overall career (2011) and Prêmio Fundação Bunge (2009). The artist has also received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1990), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993) and Fulbright Foundation (1994).
Her work is featured in a number of public collections, both in Brazil and in other countries, including Colombia, the United States, Canada, Taiwan and Spain.