
SILVANA SORIANO
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work lives in the space between written and visual language — in what remains unsaid, hidden, or forgotten. Through collage, drawing, printmaking, and textile, I give form to those silences, working in series drawn from stories, poems, and idioms that explore the feminine experience and its relationship to memory, voice, and absence.
My process is fluid and interdisciplinary. Found materials — art magazines, books, and garments — become part of my collages, while oil and acrylic paint build figures and spaces within them. Line and gesture run through everything; they structure space and carry movement and emotion across drawing, printmaking, and painting. Layering is both a formal and conceptual act: each surface holds traces of what came before.
Recently this investigation has extended into shadows — their relationship to nature, presence, and the invisible connections between beings. Shadows, for me, are both physical and metaphorical traces: echoes of our coexistence with the natural world, and evidence of what language cannot fully hold. Through printmaking, I explore how light and darkness interact to define form and perception, translating that dynamic into images that reflect the interdependence between people, nature, and the forces that bind them.
LAST WORKS
Loulou
mixed media on canvas
36 x 48
2026

Touch Wings Embroidery
Fabric
110 x 55
2025

Read Me Like a Book
Mixed media on canvas
48 x108
2024

Blanket
collage and embroidery fabric
82 x 46
2024

Territory is not a map is not a territory
mixed media
48 X 29
2022
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Meu corpo eu territorio
embroidery and collage on fabric
24 x 24 in
2021

Territory is not a map is not a territory
mixed media
48 X 29
2022
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KNOW THE ARTIST
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Silvana Soriano is a visual artist, art educator, and illustrator based in Miami, Florida. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Brazil, Spain, France, Cuba, and the United States. She is an Associate Artist at Bakehouse Art Complex and a studio resident at MIFA.
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Her solo exhibitions include Ipsis Litteris at The CAMP Gallery; Ipsis Litteris with CollaborARTive; and Please, Wear My Red Shoes at the Miami Beach Public Library Branch and MIFA Gallery. In 2022, Soriano participated in Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Westport.
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Soriano is a recipient of the Teacher Travel Grant from Oolite Arts (2022, 2025) and the Corral & Cathers Professional Artist Grant (2024). Her residencies include Ratcliffe Art +Design Incubator, La Maldita Estampa (Barcelona), Project Art (Miami), and Kaaysa Art Residency. She will participate in a residency at The Ant Project in Mexico in August 2026. In addition to her studio practice, she works as an illustrator for publications ranging from children’s literature to poetry.
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