Lorena Silva

Lorena Silva was born in Mexico City in 1955, where she earned an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design at the National University (UNAM), at the same time that she took art and painting courses in different workshops and institutions: La Esmeralda, the Academy of San Carlos, the Robin Bond painting workshop, Ernesto Alcántara workshop, the Centro de Arte Mexicano (Mexican Art Center), Taller de Desnudo Helsenegas (Helsenegas Nude Workshop), San Agustín Center of the Arts, and finally at the Taller Los Alacranes (The Scorpions Workshop). Abroad she studied classical Balinese painting in Indonesia, she did a residency at Chivitela D’Angliano, Italy, where she received honorable mention; at The Banff Centre she participated in designing the Mexico-Canada pavilion for Expo 86 Vancouver, Canada; she received first place in the third furniture design competition of Fonacot (Institute for the National Fund for Employee Consumption), held in conjunction with the International Year of the Child in Mexico City. She was invited to participate in the exhibition of low-cost furniture in Havana, Cuba. She has also participated in several solo and collective exhibitions in Mexico City, León (Guanajuato), San Miguel de Allende, Oaxaca, as well as in the United States, Canada, Italy, and China. She was invited to participate in the Tenth Biennale of Havana, Cuba. Currently she is a member of the collective MAMAZ (Women Artists for Corn), and the LLAMA Project (Look, Listen and Make Art) between Mexico and Canada. Some of her sculptures and paintings are held in museum and university collections such as: the Olga Acosta Museum in Guanajuato (Guanajuato), the Casa de la Cultura de Oaxaca in Oaxaca City, the University of Tsinghua, in Beijing, China, the Department of Architecture of the UNAM in Mexico City, and the public mural in the municipality of San Agustín Etla in Oaxaca. For ten years, she has lived in Santo Domingo Barrio Alto Etla, where she continues her creative activity in the Taller Los Alacranes (The Scorpions Workshop), focusing mainly on three-dimensional work and industrial design applied to work with artisans.