Marco DaSilva is a Brazilian-American artist whose symbol-based works explore hybridity through the intersections of painting and craft. His graphic style of making combines painting and collaging of objects, textures and mediums. His works combine bold colors that investigate ritual and storytelling through a queer lens. He creates his own mythology in the process, providing a richly saturated landscape of his own world to the viewer.
DaSilva was a NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Fellow, a Visual Art Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship and an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, NBC OUT’s “12 queer artists whose work is making us pay attention” and is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library. DaSilva is an MFA Painting candidate at Hunter College and will be attending Beaux-Arts de Paris on exchange for fall of 2023.
Contact: mdasilva115@gmail.com
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