ABOUT


Brazilian artist Johab Silva lives and works in the Washington, D.C. metro area. He is a Lecturer at Maryland University and professor at Nova Community College, and artist resident at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington, VA. Silva has a graduate degree in Arts in Education from the Corcoran College of Art & Design and an MFA from Maine College of Art & Design. His ongoing research explores themes of environmental issues, time, chance, and fabrication/consumption/collection of digital media, through lenses of a multidisciplinary practice (NFTs, VR, generative media, and performance art). His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Transformer Gallery, Santo André Museum of Art, Cody Gallery, and Kreeger Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Portland, ME. Recent exhibition includes the NKR Neuer Kunstraum, Düsseldorf. Germany.  Silva's works have been reviewed in The Washington Post, Sculpture Magazine, Cruzeiro do Sul Newspaper, PBS, and many other media venues.






STATEMENT

Any community - small or large - can grow at any pace or form, but it is crucial NOT to negotiate the environmental impact the urban growth may cause, especially in green environments.