Biography

Silvio Severino is a contemporary photographer, illustrator and collage artist born in Porto Allegre, Brazil, and now based in Cork in the Republic of Ireland.

He studied photography and photojournalism while living in London and developed a photographic practice, but soon found himself drawn to the expanded creative opportunities of collage and began exhibiting his collage work.

He has been a participating member of the Collagistas, an international annual festival of collage, since 2014 and in 2018 helped to organise the Irish iteration of the festival in Dublin.

Collaboration is one of the cornerstones of Silvio’s practice; having lived in and photographed a variety of European locations for 15 years before making Ireland his home, he is now embedding himself in the Irish arts community and expanding his interdisciplinary arts practice as well as his curatorial practice.

In October 2019 he curated the group show Entre Mundos/Between Worlds: Images of Life between Mexico and Ireland in conjunction with University College Cork’s Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Cork City Library.

One of his works is on permanent display in Cork City Library’s Rory Gallagher Music Library.

His recent work has included animation for award-winning short documentary Vonnie — Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon and illustration for Before the Rainbow…..and After, an arts engagement and book with older gay men at Gay Project.

In 2022 he curated the New Reality Festival of Contemporary Collage at Market House Craftworks in Cappoquin, Co Waterford and curated the New Reality Contemporary Collage exhibition in St Peter’s exhibition centre in Cork City. The latter is due a second outing in Dublin’s Gallery X in February 2023.

Artist Statement

Silvio is interested in exploring a range of contemporary issues through collage and gif animation: nature, urbanism, consumerism, the idealisation of beauty and sexuality, capitalism, and the banality of celebrity culture are all grist to his mill. He works in both analogue and digital formats, which allows him to traverse territories of the traditional and the contemporary.

Silvio’s quest for new visual languages sees him incorporating photography, collage, and animation to create new formats that blur the boundaries between genre, technique and style. Photography becomes collage, collage becomes animated gif or video art: a freedom from constraint is both experienced by the artist and sensed by the viewer.

Silvio’s work places him at an exciting new frontier in contemporary art where techniques merge in the pursuit of free expression.

Exhibitions:

2022

2022, 04/11: Self-Discovery Through Collage Workshop with Silvio Severino at Gay Project, Cork.

2022, 13/10 to 29/10: Tingladography Exhibition at Gallery X, 11 Hume Street, Dublin.

2022, 23/09: Culture Night 2022 Exhibition and workshop at Scala, Castle Road, Blackrock, Cork.

2022, 04/09: MIGRACJE/MIGRATION at Pałacyk Konopackiego, Bazar Różyckiego, Warsaw, Po-land.

2022, 11/08 to 26/08: LARBI Group Show curated by Dino Notaro at Gallery X, 11 Hume Street, Dublin.

2022, 29/07 to 07/08: MIGRATION for Vintage Week at The Courthouse Yard, Birr, Co. Offaly.

2022, 01/06 to 30/06: Beyond the Rainbow: Pride in Portraits for Saatchi Art at The William Vale Hotel, Brooklyn, New York.

2021

2021, 30/04: Watch Me Online Group Show, curated by Dino Notaro, at Slow Lane Gallery, Dub-lin.

2020

2020, 18/12: WEAPON OF CHOICE Group Show, curated by Dino Notaro, at Slow Lane Gallery, Dublin.

2020, 08/05: I Kissed a Boy and I Liked it! Virtual exhibition at The Gay Project, Cork.

2019

2019, 07/10 to 26/10: Curator - Entre Mundos/Between Worlds: Images of Life be-tween Mexico and Ireland with the Centre for Mexican Studies, University College Cork, at Cork City Libraries, Cork.

2019, 20/09 to 04/10: Sound & Vision - Collage Work by Silvio Severino for Culture Night Cork

2019, 08/08 to 30/09: Loop Conspiracy solo show at Filter Coffee, Cork, Aug 8th to Sept 30th.

2019, 05/08 to 08/08: Collagistas Festival #6 at Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Brussels, Belgium.

2019, 05/08 to 08/08: Art Brasil at Galerie G3, Brussels, Belgium.

2019, 09/05 to 22/05: Welcome to The Flock at Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford.

2019, 14/03 -The Cutter at Casa Brasil, Brazilian Embassy, Brussels, Belgium.

2018

2018, 06/12 to 09/12: SLAACE (Salon Latino Americain d'Art Contemporain Europe) at Centre Culturel Brugel, Brussels, Belgium.

2018, 9/11 to 26/11: Spare Us the Cutter at St. Peters Cork, Cork.

2018: Save Cork City Art Sale by Artwork 50/50, On display citywide around Cork City.

2018, 13/09 to 16/09: Collagistas Festival #5 Dublin at Temple Bar Gallery and Studio, Dublin.

2018, 06/09 to 15/09: Art Brasil at Aspach Shopping, Brussels, Belgium.

2018, 5/07 to 15/08: KAOS Festival of Contemporary Collage, Slovenia.

2018, 17/07 to 26/07: Home by the Lee, as part of Language of Life: Language of Humanity at Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork City.

2018, 01/05 to 30/08: Tempo - Long Exposure Black and White Photography by Silvio Severino at 00Art Gallery, Troyan, Bulgaria.

2018, 03/04 to 28/04: Lake Balaton, as part of Cork Photo 2018, at The Vinyl Lounge, Cork.

2018, 28/04: Home by the Lee, as part of Cork World Book Fest 2018 at City Library,

Cork.

2017

2017, 21/10 to 18/11: Electric Open 2017 at Electric Picture House, Cheshire, UK.

2017, 29/07 to 30/10: Three songs - Concert Photography by Silvio Severino at The Vinyl lounge, Golden Discs, Cork.

2017, 22/09 to 29/09: Collagistas Festival #4, Milan, Italy.

2017, 12/05: Vernissage "Sauce Brazil - 10+ Brazilian artists and the cornet" at Home Frit' Home

2017, 01/04 to 10/04: Collagistas Festival #3, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 01 - 10 April

2017: In Glue We Trust - Collage by Silvio Severino at Pele-Mele d'Ixells, Brussels, Belgium.

2016

2016: WATER CONNECTS 3rd Place -Siófok, Lake Balaton series at Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest.

2015

2015, 22/05: Collagistas Festival #2 at TABYA art space in Thessaloniki, Greece.

2015, 25/04: Instants video screening at Espacio Gallery, London.

2014

2014, 10/10 to 24/10: The Collagistas Festival at Alternativ Gallery, Berlin.

2014, 11/10 to 18/10: Collagerie exhibition 2014 at STEW gallery, Norwich, UK.

2014, 17/04 to 24/05: Motion Photograph Prize at Saatchi Gallery, Google+

2014, 24/07 to 29/07: Duality at Espacio Gallery, London.

2014: Material World as part of no barking aRt biennale 2014 Part II, Espacio Gallery, London.

2014: no barking aRt biennale 2014 Part I, Truman Brewery Space, London.

2013

2013: 3rd Salon of Photography, FIAP Honorable Mention, Croatia.

Education:

2009 / 2010 – First year of a BA Hons in Photographic Arts: University of Westminster, London

2009 - ABC Award Publishing (Photojournalism): London College of Communication, London

2008 - BTEC National Award in Art and Design (Photography), Distinction: Blake College, London