Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilising video, film and  photography. Her work, which spans a wide range of subject matter and genres, explores the personal and societal relations that connect and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that are told about us and the stories we construct about ourselves. She has been exhibited widely throughout the US, Europe and Asia at venues such as MoMA, the ICP, MoCA, The Yokohama Museum, The Pompidou Center, The Kyoto Museum, the London ICA, The London, Singapore, New  York, Moscow and Berlin Film Festivals. Silver attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in  Intellectual History, and a B.F.A. in Mixed Media and subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Programme. She is an associate professor in Visual Arts, School of the Arts, Columbia University.
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