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Pacifico Silano
Born 1986, Brooklyn, New York
pacificosilano@gmail.com
Education
2012
MFA in Photo, Video and Related Media: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
2008
BFA in Photography: Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA.
Awards & Honors
2024
Fountainhead Artist Residency, Miami, FL
2021
The Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Shortlist for First Book Prize
The Rencontres d’Arles Book Award Shortlist for Artist Book of the Year
The Silver List, Silver Eye Center for Photography, The Black List, Carnegie Mellon
2020
Silver Art Projects Studio Residency
2019
Bronx Museum of the arts, AIM AT 80 White Street Artist Residency
2018
BRIC Media Arts Fellowship
2016
Lower East Side Print Shop, Key Holder Residency
New York Foundation of The Arts, Fellowship in Photography
Light Work Artist-in-Residence, Syracuse, NY.
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Alumni Microgrant Recipient
2015
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Award, Nominee.
Baxter Street, CCNY Workspace Residency, New York, NY.
2013
Aperture Portfolio Prize - Finalist/Runner Up.
The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Artist in The Marketplace Program.
2012
Aaron Siskind Foundation, Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
Pride Photo Award, First Prize, Open Category, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Psychosexual Thriller, Island Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Sweetest Kill, Monti8, Latina, Italy
2022
Men Play Games, Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
If You Gotta Hurt Somebody, Please Hurt Me, Rubber-Factory, New York, NY (2 Location Solo Show)
If You Gotta Hurt Somebody, Please Hurt Me, Fragment Gallery, New York, NY (2 Location Solo Show)
Don’t Worry Baby, Monti 8, Latina, Italy
2021
Cowboys Don’t Shoot Straight ( Like They Used To), Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2020
I Won’t Last A Day Without You, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR
Time to Come, The Eye Sees, Arles, FR
The Eyelid Has Its Storms…, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2019
Fragment Gallery at NADA MIAMI, Miami, FL
Time Is An Ocean But It Ends At The Shore, Rubber-Factory, New York, NY
Fragment Gallery at Sunday Art Fair, London, UK
How To Disappear, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, RUS
Speaking Little, Perhaps Not A Word, Bronx Museum’s Block Gallery, New York, NY
After Silence, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
2018
After Silence, Curated by Nathan Freeman, Stellar Projects, New York, NY
2017
John John, Rubber-Factory, New York, NY
Arrangements, Rubber-Factory @ VOLTA, New York, NY
2016
Tear sheets, Baxter St. CCNY, New York, NY
2015
Against Nature, ClampArt, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Summer Escape, GAA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
White Lodge, Island Gallery, New York, NY
When I’m Empty Please Dispose of Me Properly, Bric, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Circular Ruins, Island Gallery, New York, NY
One of A Kind, The Ravestjin Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Unseen Art Fair, The Ravestjin Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
The Portrait, The Ravestjin Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Tom’s Queers, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
F*ck Art: The Body & Its Absence, Curated by Eve Arballo & Emily Shoyer The Museum of Sex, New York, NY
Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload, Curated by David Campany, ICP Museum, New York, NY
2021
Fantasy America, Curated by Jose Diaz, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2020
reGeneration4: The Challenges for Photography and its Museum of Tomorrow, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, CH
The Challenges for Photography and its Museum of Tomorrow
Out of The Folds, (2 Person Exhibit w/ Sarah Palmer), Monti 8, Latina, IT
2019
LM Gallery at Art Verona, Verona, IT
OFF Festival, Bratislava, SK
2018
BRIC Media arts fellowship screening, Bric, Brooklyn, NY
Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Curated by For Freedoms, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Divina Comedia, Curated by Pedro Slim, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX
PHOTO LONDON, somerset House, London, UK
Queer Tropics, Curated by Charlie Tatum, TRANSFORMER, WASHINGTON D.C.
New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light work collection, The Palitz Gallery, New York, NY
2017
imagined communities,nationalism & violence, rubber-factory, New York, NY
Queer Tropics, Curated by Charlie Tatum, Pelican Bomb, New Orleans, LA
New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light work collection, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
theirs/ours/yours, Curated by Christian Hendricks, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY
Sun Screen, Curated by Paul John Jr., Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
Night Fever, Curated by Emily Colucci, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
NOW.AFTER, Front Art Space, New York, NY
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:, Curated by Patrick McNabb, Re:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Like Smoke, Curated by Osman Can Yerebakan, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
New Flesh, Rubber Factory, New York, NY
High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
Art AIDS America, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx, NY
Re:Context: An Exhibition About Appropriation, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
Art AIDS America, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw ,GA
2015
OFF_Festival, “Intervening Histories,” curated by Saul Robbins, Pisztory Palace, Bratislava, SK
Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2014
The Armory Show, Aperture Gallery Booth, New York, NY
2013
The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx Calling: 2nd AIM Biennial, Bronx, NY
2012
"Curator's Choice", CONTEXT Art Miami, ClampArt Booth, Miami, FL
Pride Photo Award Exhibition. Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
Into The Woods, ClampArt. New York, NY
Selected Bibliography
Vince Aletti, A Fresh View of Masculinity, Through Scraps of Old Magazines, The New Yorker
Ayanna Dozier, Pacifico Silano Examines Violence & Desire By Reenvisioning Gay Erotica, Artsy
Brian Ng, How I Made This: Pacifico Silano’s Obliquely Erotic Vintage Magazine Collages, Art News
Max Fields, I Never Get Lonesome (Especially In The Night), Spot Magazine
Salome Kokoladze, Cowboys Don’t Shoot Straight (Like The Used To), Glasstire
Trevor Bishai, Book Review: I Wish I never Saw The Sunshine, Musee Magazine
Allie Monck, Pacifico Silano’s ‘I wish I never Saw the Sunshine’ collages queer identity from the tattered folds of gay erotica, Document Journal
Josh Spero, A photograph is not this fixed thing, Financial Times Weekend Magazine
Hannah Abel Hirsch, Recontextualising the printed ephemera of gay culture to contemplate it anew, BJP
Louise Benson, For Escapism and Inspiration, Don’t Miss These New Art and Photography Books, Elephant Magazine
Matt R. Lohr, Ways to Shake The Weight of It All: Fantasy America at the Andy Warhol Museum, Whitehot Magazine
Cristina Rouvalis, Fantasy America, Carnegie Magazine
A Conversation With Pacifico Silano, Light Work
Gareth Harris, Censored queer photographs get second chance at Miami's Nada fair, The Art Newspaper
Loring Knoblauch, Pacifico Silano, Time Is An Ocean But It Ends At The Shore @Rubber Factory, Collector Daily
Ginger Harris, Indulge, Miami Herald
Gareth Harris, New Art Dealers Alliance - how galleries and artists can work together, Financial Times
Coco Romack, The Queer Artists Rethinking What Makes a Body Beautiful, Out
Rowan Renee, Desire and Loss, from Stonewall to the AIDS Crisis, Aperture
9 Art Events to Attend in New York, Art News
Taylor Dafoe, Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week, Artnet
Zachary Small,”Queer Artist Claims Bal Harbour censored his photography,” Hyperallergic
Osman Can Yerebakan, "ARTSEEN, PACIFICO SILANO:AFTER SILENCE," The Brooklyn Rail
Chris Stewart, "Pacifico SILano-after silence," GAYLETTER
"Pacifico Silano at Stellar Projects,new york," Art News
"Pacifico Silano's after silence in new york," Blouin ArtINFO
Annie Rose Malamet, "Relevant: A PODCAST BY POSTURE MAGAZINE," Posture Magazine
Khary Simon, "FLASHLIGHT / PACIFICO SILANO / AFTER SILENCE / STELLAR PROJECTS," Crushfanzine
Tristan Lund, "The 7 breakthrough artists to discover at photo london," Wallpaper*
Sarah roberts, "Photo London: ‘Can art be used as a vehicle to inspire change in society?,”BJP
Mark Jenkins, "In The galleries: queer tropics," Washington Post
John d'addario, "in the orbit of prospect.4: satellite shows round out the scene," the new orleans advocate
"Volta NY 2017: building true relationships through art," artsy
Emma E K Jones, "pacifico silano - Fantasy America! -an interview," kaltblut
Audra Lambert, "Flashlight/Pacifico Silano/Rubber-Factory," CRUSHfanzine
Emily Colucci, "Tell Me I'm Your National Anthem: Pacifico Silano's 'John John,'" Filthy Dreams
John Russell, "The Queer Artist Revisiting Tabloid Sexualization of John F. Kennedy, Jr." OUT
Fitale Wari, "Night Fever explores the disco era of 1970s," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Ghosts, Missed Connections, and More Must-See Art Shows," Bedford & Bowery
"Meet Four Emerging Artists At VOLTA NY in These GalleryLog Video Previews," ArtSlant
Emily Colucci, "VOLTA: Skip The Booths, Head to "Your Body is a Battleground," ArtFCity
Desiree Mitton, "VOLTA NY is International in Scope, Refreshing in its Digestibility," Whitewall Magazine
Nicole Disser, "An Art Show Where Queer Bodies are Phantasmagoric, Vanishing and Void," Bedford & Bowery
Danielle Wu, "Blow by Blow: Like Smoke at Equity Gallery," Filthy Dreams
Jon Feinstein, "The 17 Best Socially Concerned Photobooks of 2016," Humble Arts Foundation
Yael Malka, "25 Captivating Photographers Whose Work You Need In Your Life," The Fader
Patrick D. McDermott, Leah Mandel, “14 Very Cool Things You Need To Do At NYABF,” The Fader
Emily Colucci, Where Does Queer Art Go Without An Ideal Sexualized Body?’ Filthy Dreams
Priscilla Frank, “This is What a Feminist Porn Magazine Looks Like,” Huffington Post
Holland Cotter, "Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long?" New York Times
Matthew Terrell. “Review:”Art AIDS America” retrospectively shows us the face of an epidemic,”Arts ATL
Vince Aletti, “Goings on About Town: Art,” The New Yorker
Juliana Halpert, “Critics’ Pick, Pacifico Silano,” ARTFORUM
T.S. Flock, “Lessons in Beauty, History and Mercy: Art AIDS America at TAM,”Vanguard Seattle
Emily Colucci, “Resurrecting the Gay History of the Holocaust,” VICE
Christopher Harrity, “In The Galleries, Against Nature” The Advocate
"Dear Uncle Frank: A Photographer’s Exploration of Gay Myths and Family Truths,"TIME LightBox
Denise Wolf, "Aperture Portfolio Prize Winners, - Runner-Up: Pacifico Silano.” Aperture.org
Publications
José Diaz, “I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine,” Loose Joints
Tiffany Jow, “After The Silence,” Surface Magazine, ISSUE #150
Jimmy Olney, “Pacifico looks back,” Gayletter, Issue #9, p. 34-39
Marvin Heiferman, “Second Time Around…,” Tear Sheets, Silent Face Projects & Dashwood Books
Jonathan David Katz & Rock Hushka, Art AIDS America, University of Washington Press,pp.265
Elisabeth Biondi, "Portfolio," Photograph Magazine, May/June 2014. p. 40-45.
Deanna Lee, “Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, Dominie Press, (catalog)
Bruno Ceschel, "Self Publish, Be Naughty," SPBH Book. London, UK. September 2011.
Lectures
International Center for Photography
Yale School of Art - MFA Photography Department
CUNY
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
ICP Bard, The Dinner: An Open Conversation
Fashion Institute of Technology - BFA Photography Department
School of Visual Arts - MFA Photography, Video & Related Media
School of Visual arts - BFA Photography Department
Pace University
SUNY Oswego - New York State Summer School of the Arts (Media Program)
Bronx Museum of The Arts
Collections
The Museum of Modern Art Permanent Collection
Musée de l’Elysée Permanent Collection
Hunter College/The Graduate Center CUNY
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art
Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery
Munson Williams Proctor
Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
Light Work Collection
San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art Library
Whitney Museum of American Art (Library)
International Center of photography (Library)
University of Pennsylvania (Library)
Harvard University (Library)