BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1958, Contemporary artist and activist Silvia Levenson is internationally acclaimed for using glass as a narrative medium to explore women’s realities and socio-political concerns. For the artist, glass becomes the ideal material to show the ambiguity of interpersonal relationships and the relationship between family and society.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia Levenson immigrated to Italy in 1981, during the "disappearances" of the Dirty War. In 2004, Levenson received the Rakow Commission Award from the Corning Museum of Glass. In 2008 she was a shortlisted nominee for the Bombay Sapphire Prize and in 2016 she received The Glass in Venice Award from Istituto Veneto, Venice, Italy.

Her work has been exhibited around the world and is a part of several public collections including Corning Museum of Glass, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fè, Houston Fine Art Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Charlotte, Chrysler Museum of Art, Sunderland Glass Museum, UK, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Alexander Tutsek-  Stiftung, Munich, MUDAC, Lausanne and Castello Sforzesco Museum, Milan.