BIO

Stephanie Silver is a Miami-based visual artist working primarily with sculpture. Drawing from whatever catches her attention, her practice explores how ordinary encounters become charged through memory, association, humor, and fantasy. Often originating in photographs taken during walks, Silver’s sculptures do not reproduce these scenes directly, but transform them in response to the personal and cultural associations they evoke. Her work translates architectural, botanical, and recognizable visual references into heightened forms that use color, scale, texture, and material presence to give physical shape to the feeling of an encounter. Her background in photorealistic painting increasingly informs this sculptural practice through the incorporation of image-making, painted surfaces, and photographic specificity.

Silver recently completed a three-month residency at Kunstraum in New York and will attend KALA AIR in Berkeley in summer 2027. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Oolite Arts, Satellite Art Show, the Doral Contemporary Art Museum, and Kunstraum. She has received the Ratcliffe Art and Design Fellowship, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival Scholarship, and the III Points Artist Grant. She currently teaches undergraduate sculpture at Florida International University.