Sancho Silva was born in Lisbon in 1973.

 

EDUCATION
2004
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA

M.F.A in sculpture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA

 

2001
Sculpture diploma, Ar.Co., School of Art and Visual Communication, Lisbona, Portugal

M.A. in Philosophy of Language, Lisbon University, Portugal

 

1995
B.A. in Pure Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2008
Dolle Mol, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium

 

2007
Involtino, Parfiri Building, Bossarino, Italy [permanent project]

Cyclopean Eye: Cairo, Pinksummer Gallery, Genoa, Itali

 

2006
Cyclopean Eye: Berlin,Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

 

2005
Orange Works, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

 

2004
Hominivorax, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal

Modulators, Steuben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA

 

2003
Singulizer, Pinksummer Gallery, Genoa, Italy

Sub-urb, Serralves Park, Porto, Portugal

 

2002
Shortcut, Inkijk, SKOR, Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Slow Movement or: Half and Whole, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

 

2008
El Medio es el Museo, MARCO, Vigo, Spain

Articulações, Fábrica da Cerveja, Faro, Portugal

Love at First Site, Futura Projects, Praga, Czech Republic

Museé Lumière, empty lot off the Darling Foundry, Montréal, Canada

Shelter, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

 

2007
Portugal Agora, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Open Garden, Palácio de Belém, Lisbona, Portugal

Morro, Projecto 270, Costa da Caparica, Portugal

Reality Crossings, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

Urban Interface: Oslo, corner of Lakkegate and Nylandsvine, Oslo, Norway

Où? Scènes du Sud : Espagne, Italie, Portugal, Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France

União Latina Prize, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

Che Ci Faccio Qui?, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy

60x60x60, Biaggio Steps, La Valletta, Malta

Depósito, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

ElDorado, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

 

2006
Diegesis, Schwerin Staatlische Museum and Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin, Germany

Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

2005
Report from NYC, Susquehana Museum of Art, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

 

2004
Cidade Iluminada, ZDB, Lisbona, Portugal

Whitney Independent Study Program Exhibition, New York, USA

 

2003
Outras Alternativas, MARCO, Vigo, Spain

Sete Artistas ao Décimo Mês, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbona, Portugal

Open Studios, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Detonation, Anthologie Film Archives, New York, USA

 

2002
Manifesta4, Frankensteinerhof, Frankfurt, Germany

Bolseiros e Finalistas do Ar.Co, CCB, Lisbona, Portugal

Francisco Wandschneider Prize, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal

 

1999
ExperimentaDesign99, Gare Marítima de Alcântara, Lisbona, Portugal

RAMa, Galeria Alvarez, Porto, Portugal

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SCHOLARSHIPS

Gulbenkian Foundation/Luso-American Foundation joint scholarship (Aurtunno 2004);

Luso-American Foundation scholarship (Primavera 2004);

Fulbright Foundation and Carmona e Costa Foundation joint scholarship (2001-2003);

Foundation for Science and Technology scholarship (1999-2001).

 

RESIDENCES

Quartier Ephémere, Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Steam Shop, Fábrica da Pólvora, Barcarena, Portugal

Open Studios, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt