Silvia Poloto is a restless creative, who is always searching for a fresh visual language combining new materials and presentations. She has worked in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture and painting.

Born in Brazil, Silvia Poloto has been working in California for more than twenty years. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Triton Museum, the Italian American Museum, and the deYoung Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence.

Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad (including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, France, Spain, Jordan, Italy, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and China, among others) and has been acquired by more than 80 institutional and corporate entities and many hundreds of private collectors around the world.

Silvia Poloto currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

An intense need to create defines my existence. I live for the rush of turning a thought or an idea into something tangible. My work is about my direct experience of what it is like living in the world today. The world is an infinite resource of inspiration and making art is about being present, having the courage to be imperfect and vulnerable while following my heart and intuition. I make art out of myself, out of my feelings, incorporating my full range of emotions. I make them visible on a canvas in a unique, bold and fun way. I strive for simplicity, elegance, beauty.