Bela Silva

Bela Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and studied at Porto and the Lisbon Fine Arts Schools in Portugal; ArCo in Lisbon; Norwich Fine Arts in the UK; and School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives between Lisbon, Portugal, and Brussels, Belgium. She has had shows at Chicago’s Ann Nathan Gallery and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, and at Lisbon’s Museu do Azulejo (Tile Museum), Museu Anastácio Gonçalves, Palácio da Ajuda, and Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo. Her work has also been presented in shows in China and Japan. She has participated in group shows of tile art in Brazil, Spain, France; run ceramics workshops in Japan and Morocco; and been awarded residencies in the Arts/Industry program at Kohler, Wisconsin, and at Fabrica Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

She has created several public art pieces, namely tile panels for the Alvalade subway station in Lisbon; panels for the Sakai Cultural Center’s gardens in Japan; and panels for the João de Deus School in the Azores Islands.