Regina Silveira was born in Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil in 1939. She lives in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied art at the Instituto de Artes da UFRGS (1959), Master (1980) and Doctor in Arts degree at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes, USP. She taught at the Instituto de Artes da UFRGS (1964-1969), at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (1969-73), at FAAP in São Paulo (1973-85) and at the Art Department of ECA/USP since 1974 to the present. She has participated in several international biennials, among others the Bienal de São Paulo (1983,1998), the Bienal do Mercosul (2001, 2011), and the 6th Taipei Biennial (2006). Some recent invitational group shows were “Brazil: Body and Soul”, at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2001), “Máquinas de Mirar,” at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (2009), “Philagrafika 2010”, in Philadelphia, the 8ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2011), and the XI Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2011).

Recent solo exhibitions are Lumen, 2005 (Palácio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2005), Sombra Luminosa, at the Museo de Arte Banco de la República, Bogotá (2007), Ficções, at Museu Vale do Rio Doce, Vila Velha, ES Brazil, Tropel Reversed, 2009, at the Køge Art Museum, Denmark, Linha de Sombra, 2009 at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Abyssal, at Atlas Sztuki (2010), in Lodz, Poland, 1001 Days and Other Enigmas, at Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brasil (2011), Limits, at the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, UT El Paso, USA (2011) and In Absentia (Collection) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Co., USA(2012).

She has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1990), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1993) and Fulbright Foundation (1994). Recent national awards were Prêmio Sérgio Motta for Art and Technology (2000), Prêmio APCA (São Paulo Art Critics Association) given to the exhibition Claraluz (2003), Prêmio Bravo Prime in Arts, given to Mundus Admirabilis (2007), the Fundação Bunge Award in Arts, for Life and Work (2009) and the Great Art Critics Award, given to Tramazul at MASP (2010/2011) by APCA (São Paulo Art Critics Association) in 2011.