Shelly Silver


Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Visual Arts

Concentration Head, Moving Image

Shelly Silver's work in film, video, and photography spans an eclectic range of subject matter and genres, exploring the personal and societal relations that identify and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that we dream or fabricate about others, and the stories that we construct about ourselves. Silver's art has been exhibited and broadcast widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Screenings and installations have been mounted by venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Yokohama Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Kyoto Museum, the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Museo Reina Sofia, and the London, Singapore, New York, Moscow, and Berlin film festivals.

 
 
Her work has been broadcast on BBC/England, PBS/USA, Arte, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, and Atenor/Spain. Silver's numerous fellowships and grants include awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the DAAD, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman.
 
 

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2009
5 Lessons and 9 Questions about Chinatown / You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue, unseeing, possibly unseen....

2008
In Complete World / In complete world, stimulates attention through words and faces, focusing on varieties of personal states of mind while linking them in different ways to the broader complexity that is the United States....

2008
Exceptional Happenings / A three-channel video installation commissioned by The Corporation of Yaddo for their exhibition Yaddo: Making American Culture at The New York Public Library curated by Micki McGee....

News

Shelly Silver Premieres Film at International Festival, Wins Fellowship to Italy

Shelly Silver Premieres Film at International Festival, Wins Fellowship to Italy

October 30, 2017

Shelly Silver, an Associate Professor in Columbia’s Visual Arts Program, is premiering her film, A Strange New Beauty at the 60th International Leipzig Festival For Documentary And Animated Film in Leipzig, Germany.

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Homage to Shelly Silver at International Festival

Homage to Shelly Silver at International Festival

March 28, 2014

This year's Dok Leipzig presents nine short and long films by Visual Arts Chair Shelly Silver as part of an homage to her work. The festival is one of the oldest documentary festivals of the world and takes place every year in Leipzig, Germany.

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