Silvia Poloto

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Silvia Poloto is a Brazilian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist, and electrical engineer. She works in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, and painting, and she also creates video art.^[1]

She was born in São Paulo, Brazil who immigrated to San Francisco, California, in 1992.^[2] She earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from University of São Paulo. She earned her M.B.A. at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Getulio Vargas Foundation) in São Paulo. From 1996 to 1999, she worked as an instructor's assistant in the Sculpture Department at City College of San Francisco.^[3] During that period, she also worked as a welder at 3D Studios in Oakland^[4] and an art instructor in mixed media at the Associated Students of the University of California Art Studio at the University of California, Berkeley.^[5]

Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including the United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Italy, Singapore, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and China, among others.^[6] In the San Francisco Bay Area, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, the Italian American Museum, and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence in 2001. Poloto's work has been acquired by more than 50 institutional and corporate collections around the US and by more than 800 private collectors around the world.^[7]

• List of Brazilian artists
• Contemporary art

• Silvia Poloto official website