Sula Bermúdez-Silverman

Sula Bermudez-Silverman was born in New York City in 1993 and raised in Los Angeles, California. In 2015, Bermudez-Silverman was an Honorary Artist-in-Residence at Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas.^{[2][dead link]} Afterward she would study at the Yale University School of Art, earning her MFA in Sculpture in 2018.^{[3][failed verification]} Her first exhibition was at the University of Texas at Austin while she was still a student at Yale.^[4] Currently, Bermudez-Silverman lives and works in Los Angeles.

Sula Bermudez-Silverman earned her BA in Studio Art from Bard College in 2015, and a MFA in Sculpture at Yale University School of Art in 2018. She also studied at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design in London in 2013.^[5]

Her artworks are mostly sculptures of various mediums, including sugar, found objects, and hair and has dabbled in video art.^[6] Her art primarily focuses on gender, pop culture, and post-colonialism ^[7] Silverman deliberately leaves her artwork undescribed as for the viewer to find out what parts resonate with their identity.^[8] Many of her currently displayed works deal with economic, racial, religious, and gender dynamics in abstraction.

The following are examples of Sula Bermudez-Silverman's artworks:

• Tactile Illusions: Fabric book with printed imagery and tactile braille describing the image's texture.
• Duck Test: Video art depicting the braiding and burning of Silverman's hair.
• Artist's Hair and Wood: A wheel of Silverman's hair.^[9]
• Table for Eleggua, Table for Elijah: Various found and made items displayed accompanied by video art.
• Portraits of family members using DNA testing results: Fabric pie charts depicting the genetic "portrait" of the individual.
• Red Hook, New York: A transparent quilt containing various found items.
• Blue Prints: Fabric book with printed imagery.
• Dollhouses in the medium sugar, glass, wood, resin, and metal.^[10]
• Hair Embroideries: Fabrics with images sewn in from Silverman's hair.^[11]
• Carrefour Pietà / Be My Victim: wool and acrylic yarn.
• The Monster’s Bride (She’s Alive!): wool and viscose yarn.
• Porthole 3 (Chemical X): Himalayan sea salt, isomalt sugar, glass found object.
• Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels: isomalt sugar, epoxy resin, puffer fish specimen, cast glass, carpenter bees.

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