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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

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Touch Wings Embroidery

Fabric

110 x 55

2025

 

 

Touch Wings.jpg

Read Me Like a Book

Mixed media on canvas

48 x108

2024

Read me Like a Book  2024 mixed media on canvas 48 x 108 in.jpeg

Blanket

collage and embroidery fabric

82 x 46

2024

Blanket  Collage and embroidery on fabric 82 x 46 in 2024.jpg

Territory is not a map is not a territory

mixed media

48 X 29

2022

Silvana Soriano Territory is not a map is not a territory 2022 48 X 29 in mixed media  (1)

Meu corpo eu territorio

embroidery and collage on fabric

24 x 24 in

2021

Meu corpo eu territorio embroidery and collage on fabric 2021.JPG

Territory is not a map is not a territory

mixed media

48 X 29

2022

we (are) the people We (Are) the People, 2020.jpg

CONTACT INFORMATION

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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