Luis Silva's practice extends over 40 years of expansive exploration and evolution. His work has ranged from early experimentations with material and abstraction, to more current examinations of being and the construction of self. Throughout a formidable range of media and content, one theme connects the entirety of his work together - his consideration of the complex space where our manufactured constructs meet the complexity of the real. It can be found in his earlier investigations that navigate the ethereal and earth, image and object. It similarly sits at the core of his later exploration of the never ending battle between our erected public facades and our search for self. His most recent writing, drawing and animation wanders through those spaces and gaps that form between life and fiction - in search of imagination, the real, belief and the thread of myth and fable that binds them. His work explores those gaps that leave us vulnerable to others and the world, and in search of the more we forever yearn to be.

Luis Silva received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and his Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University. He is an associate professor at American University in Washington DC, where he has served as Department of Art Chair, Studio Art Program Director and spent almost 20 years as Director of its Graduate Studio Art Program. His work has been exhibited at numerous international and national venues that include the Museum of Modern Art, Gramercy Theater in New York, Art Basel/Miami, the Southeastern Center of Contemporary Arts in Winston Salem, the Corcoran Museum in Washington DC, the Frost Art Museum in Miami, the Washington Project for the Arts in Washington DC, the Taimiao Temple Gallery/Forbidden City in Beijing, the DALI Contemporary Art Center in Beijing, IOAM in Bejing, the Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University in New York, Springs Projects in Brooklyn, as well as G Fine Art in Washington DC.