Caterina Silva was born in Rome in 1983. She lives between London and Rome.
Caterina Silva explores the links between power and language from a silent, non-discursive perspective in order to elude canonical structures of the production of meaning. Through the use of various pictorial and performative techniques, Silva records details of the space where she works, traces of her everyday life, but also fragments of collective unconscious: news, disasters, revolts as other unnamable objects which can refer to death, chance, love, pain, joy, despair and other errors in the system.
In 2015 she was invited to the 16th Cairo Prize, in 2018 won the 9th Combat Prize.
She has been artist in residence at Cité des Arts, Paris, 2013; Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2015-2014; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, 2016; NKD, Norway, 2018; ARP, Cape Town, 2018; Bocs, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Cosenza, 2019; Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino, 2019.

Solo exhibitions and recent performances (selection): Unpowered, XR Vortic, London Collective, 2020; Impressioni, Bosse&Baum, London 2018; Amor Proprio, Centrale Montemartini, Rome 2017; Münster, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, 2016; Senza Sistema, Bosse&Baum, London, 2016; Sacrosanctum, Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo, 2016; Soggetto.Oggetto.Oggetto, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, 2015; Paolo, Marco, Ashok..., Project Space South, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2015; Story of the City of Brass, RijksOpen, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2014; Subverting Dualities, VM21 Gallery, Rome, 2010.

Group exhibitions (selection): Talent Prize, Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome, 2020; Due quadri e un tavolo, Richter Fine Arts, Rome, 2020; Mistici Sensuali Contemplativi, Metodo, Milan, 2020; TuttoApposto, Tutto Bene, (performance), Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza, 2019; Diari tra Diari, Fondazione Spinola Banna, Poirino (TO), 2019; Graffiare il presente, Casa Testori, Milan, 2018; Finite/Infinite, Everard Read Circa, Cape Town, 2018; De Lachende Cavalier, Abstracte, Dordrecht, 2018; You see me like a ufo, Marcelle Joseph, Ascot, 2017; Herstories, Protein Studios, London, 2017; Anthropocene, Riccardo Crespi, Milan, 2016; The reconfigured painting, Canal 05 Gallery, Brussels, 2015; Reality Show, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, 2012; Viaggio in tempo reale, Teatro Colosseo/Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, 2007.