Sula Bermúdez-Silverman

Sula Fay Bermudez-Silverman (born 1993)[1] is an American multi-media artist based in Los Angeles.

Biography

Sula Bermúdez-Silverman was born in New York City in 1993 and raised in Los Angeles, California. She is of mixed-race decent including Afro-Puerto Rican, Jewish, Latin, and African-American cultures and nationalities. Her artworks primarily focus on themes of post-slavery assimilation throughout the world. In 2015, Bermúdez-Silverman was an Honorary Artist-in-Residence at Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas.[2] Afterward she would study at the Yale University School of Art, earning her MFA in Sculpture in 2018.[3] Her first exhibition was at the University of Texas at Austin while she was still a student at Yale.[4] Currently, Bermúdez-Silverman lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education

Sula Bermúdez-Silverman earned her BA in Studio Art from Bard College in 2015, and a MFA in Sculpture at Yale University School of Art in 2018. She also studied at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design in London in 2013.[5]

Artworks

Her artworks are mostly sculptures of various mediums, including sugar, found objects, and hair and has dabbled in video art.[6] Her art primarily focuses on gender, pop culture, post-colonialism, identity and in particular, her mixed-race heritage.[7] Silverman deliberately leaves her artwork undescribed as for the viewer to find out what parts resonate with their identity.[8] Many of her currently displayed works deal with economic, racial, religious, and gender dynamics in abstraction.

The following are examples of Sula Bermúdez-Silverman's artworks:

  • Tactile Illusions: Fabric book with printed imagery and tactile braille describing the image's texture.
  • Duck Test: Video art depicting the braiding and burning of Silverman's hair.
  • Artist's Hair and Wood: A wheel of Silverman's hair.[9]
  • Table for Eleggua, Table for Elijah: Various found and made items displayed accompanied by video art.
  • Portraits of family members using DNA testing results: Fabric pie charts depicting the genetic "portrait" of the individual.
  • Red Hook, New York: A transparent quilt containing various found items.
  • Blue Prints: Fabric book with printed imagery.
  • Dollhouses in the medium sugar, glass, wood, resin, and metal.[10]
  • Hair Embroideries: Fabrics with images sewn in from Silverman's hair.[11]
  • Carrefour Pietà / Be My Victim: wool and acrylic yarn.
  • The Monster’s Bride (She’s Alive!): wool and viscose yarn.
  • Porthole 3 (Chemical X): Himalayan sea salt, isomalt sugar, glass found object.
  • Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels: isomalt sugar, epoxy resin, puffer fish specimen, cast glass, carpenter bees.

Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Exhibition Organization Location Date
Sutures University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas, United States November 2, 2018 - December 7, 2018
Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl California African American Museum Los Angeles, California, United States February 28, 2020 - May 2, 2021[12]
Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears Murmurs Los Angeles, California, United States March 7, 2021 — April 10, 2021[13]

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Group exhibitions
Exhibition Organization Location Date
Just Food Fullerton College Art Gallery Virtual Present

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References
  1. "Technotihuacan". Queer Cultural Center. 2018-03-10. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  2. "Lecture with Visiting Artists Yanira Collado, Carlos Sandoval De Leon, and Onajide Shabaka". Project Row Houses. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  3. Seward, Mahoro (2021-03-08). "Sinéad O'Dwyer offers empowered, body-diverse luxury for AW21". i-D. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  4. "Sula Bermudez-Silverman: Sutures - Visual Arts Center - The University of Texas at Austin". Visual Arts Center - Department of Art and Art History - University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  5. "EXHIBITION: Sula Bermudez-Silverman: Sutures - Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar". Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  6. Dambrot, Shana Nys (March 16, 2020). "Meet an Artist: Sula Bermudez-Silverman". LA Weekly.
  7. Conner, Allison (March 29, 2021). "Tracing the Pop Culture Zombie Myth to Haitian Folklore". Hyperallergic.
  8. Sula Bermudez-Silverman Interview | Art in Color, retrieved 2021-03-12
  9. Wheeler, Andre-Naquian (June 18, 2018). "Sula Bermudez-Silverman Turns Her Hair Into Embroidered Works of Art". Vice.
  10. Agustsson, Sola (March 31, 2021). "Artists at Work: Sula Bermudez-Silverman". East of Borneo.
  11. Salles, Claire (2020-12-29). "Mots en cheveux. Hériter de l'histoire genrée de la broderie à travers l'écriture". Cahiers ERTA (in French) (24): 9–27. ISSN 2353-8953.
  12. Miranda, Carolina (2020-04-04). "Essential Arts: Art and pandemic — how artists and institutions are faring". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  13. Bermudez-Silverman, Sula (March 2021). "Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears - Artist Statement" (PDF). Murmurs.
  14. "CAAM | Cancelled—Docent-Led Tour: Sula Bermúdez-Silverman - Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl". caamuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  15. "Past Exhibition: Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears — Murmurs". murmurs.la. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  16. "Community calendar". KTLA. 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  17. "Just Food - 3D virtual exhibition by Fullerton College Art Gallery | art.spaces | KUNSTMATRIX". artspaces.kunstmatrix.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
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