Marco DaSilva is a Brazilian-American artist whose symbol-based works explore hybridity through the intersections of painting and craft. His mosaics examine camouflage and syncretism, combining symbols from American culture, Catholic saints, and Afro-Brazilian deities into hybrid works that examine objects as relics. His graphic style blends the collaging of objects, textures, and mediums to investigate ritual and storytelling through a queer lens. DaSilva creates his own mythology in the process, offering a richly saturated landscape of his world to the viewer.
His work has been exhibited at FIERMAN, The Latinx Project at NYU, Beverly’s at Untitled Art Fair (Miami, FL), and Feria Material (CDMX, Mexico), with solo exhibitions at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division and Abrons Arts Center. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center Residency (Governors Island, NY) and a fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship (New York, NY). DaSilva’s works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library and the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. He holds a BFA from SUNY New Paltz and an MFA from CUNY Hunter College.
Contact: mdasilva115@gmail.com
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