Since her days as a student at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Silveira has been immersed in the field of the arts. Between 1991 and 1994 she was a resident of New York as a result of receiving a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. In 1995 she was awarded another scholarship focused on an artistic residency from the Fundación Civitella Ranieri. From the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, the artist produced various sculptures and screen prints with an obvious geometric influence. During her trips to Europe she deepened her knowledge of art history, something that enabled her to broaden her thinking regarding art and relate it with a visual poetry. Upon her return to Brazil she started using non-conventional materials such as metal, wood and plastic. During this period, she produced her first prints with abstract themes and, similarly, in this geometric phase she began to make use of grids and perspective. In various screen prints, she enables a vision of the social reality in a contemporary setting; her 1971 collection of screen prints entitled Laberintos (Labyrinths) encompasses a social vision from the perspective of the masses. The use of photographs of historic and famous places in Brazil in her 1977 series Brazil Today: Belezas Naturais (Natural Beauties) allowed her to employ the offset printing technique to offer a new perspective of Brazilian geography. In the 1970s, her series Topografias (Topographies) made use of a revolver to define the sense of reality, while in the early 1980s her series Anamorfas (Anamorphs) drew on perspective using everyday objects, repurposing and distorting them to give them different sizes and interpretations. In her 1984 series Simulacros (Simulations), she used the shadows of a variety of objects to create a visual distortion. From the beginning of 1990 to the present day, Regina Silveira has utilized interventions in public spaces involving mock-up models and the facades of iconic buildings, streets, avenues, squares or transport stations in Brazil and several countries of Europe and the Americas, fostering a sense of depth and animation while at the same time bringing about the creation of dialogue with the architecture[1].

  1. O mundo da arte - Regina Silveira (The world of art – Regina Silveira ). Oficina de Artes Visuais Sustentáveis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv-QIUbGhrw