Pacifico Silano (b. 1986)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA
EDUCATION
MFA in Photo, Video and Related Media: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
BFA in Photography: Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 The Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Shortlist for First Book Prize
2021 The Rencontres d’Arles Book Award Shortlist for Artist Book of the Year
2021 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
2016 New York Foundation of The Arts, Fellowship in Photography
2016 Light Work Artist-in-Residence, Syracuse, NY.
2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Alumni Microgrant Recipient
2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Award, Nominee.
2015 Baxter Street, CCNY Workspace Residency, New York, NY.
2013 Aperture Portfolio Prize - Finalist/Runner Up.
2013 The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Artist in The Marketplace Program.
2012 Aaron Siskind Foundation, Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
2012 Pride Photo Award, First Prize, Open Category, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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)
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Sweetest Kill, Monti8, Latina, Italy
2022 Men Play Games, Luis De Jesus Gallery, Los Angelas, CA
2022 If You Gotta Hurt Somebody, Please Hurt Me, Rubber-Factory, New York, NY (2 Location Solo Show)
2022 If You Gotta Hurt Somebody, Please Hurt Me, Fragment Gallery, New York, NY (2 Location Solo Show)
2022 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
2020 Time to Come, The Eye Sees, Arles, FR
2020 The Eyelid Has Its Storms…, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2019 Fragment Gallery at NADA MIAMI, Miami, FL
2019 Time Is An Ocean But It Ends At The Shore, Rubber-Factory, New York, NY
2019 Fragment Gallery at Sunday Art Fair, London, UK 2019
2019 How To Disappear, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, RUS
2019 Speaking Little, Perhaps Not A Word, Bronx Museum’s Block Gallery, New York, NY 2019
2019 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
2017 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
2023 White Lodge, Island Gallery, New York, NY
2023 When I’m Empty Please Dispose of Me Properly, Bric, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Circular Ruins, Island Gallery, New York, NY
2022 One of A Kind, The Ravestjin Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Unseen Art Fair, The Ravestjin Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 The Portrait, The Ravestjin Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 F*ck Art: The Body & Its Absence, Curated by Eve Arballo & Emily Shoyer The Museum of Sex, New York, NY
2022 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
2020 The Challenges for Photography and its Museum of Tomorrow
2020 Out of The Folds, (2 Person Exhibit w/ Sarah Palmer), Monti 8, Latina, IT
2019 LM Gallery at Art Verona, Verona, IT
2019 OFF Festival, Bratislava, SK
2018 BRIC Media arts fellowship screening, Bric, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Be Strong and Do Not Betray Your Soul: Selections from the Light Work Collection, Curated by For Freedoms, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2018 Divina Comedia, Curated by Pedro Slim, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX
2018 PHOTO LONDON, somerset House, London, UK
2018 Queer Tropics, Curated by Charlie Tatum, TRANSFORMER, WASHINGTON D.C.
2018 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
2017 Queer Tropics, Curated by Charlie Tatum, Pelican Bomb, New Orleans, LA
2017 New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light work collection, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2017 theirs/ours/yours, Curated by Christian Hendricks, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Sun Screen, Curated by Paul John Jr., Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
2017 Night Fever, Curated by Emily Colucci, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 NOW.AFTER, Front Art Space, New York, NY
2017 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
2016 New Flesh, Rubber Factory, New York, NY
2016 High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Art AIDS America, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, Bronx, NY
2016 Re:Context: An Exhibition About Appropriation, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
2016 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
2015 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
2012 Pride Photo Award Exhibition. Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Into The Woods, ClampArt. New York, NY