About me
History
Silvia Canton was born in Conegliano in 1974. She graduated in theatre scenography with first-class honours at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. After her studies, she worked for several years alongside the costume designer Odette Nicoletti as a graphic assistant, collaborating in Rome and Venice with important theatre and cinema professionals, including the director Ettore Scola.
Since 2007 she developed a passion for painting, undertaking a constant activity in solo and group exhibitions in Veneto region as well as in Naples, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Miami and Shanghai, Monte Carlo.
In 2019 she was chosen by the Amorim Cork Italia to develop a pictorial study based on the recycling of virgin cork. The Amorim Group is the world’s leading of cork.
In 2019, she was chosen by the Amorim Group to develop an artistic research based on the recycling of cork in its most irregular and extremely hard form, the “virgin cork”, commercially destined to be ground and transformed into technical granules for green building. This same cork gives her paintings a new materiality. The ongoing project includes artworks created through this technique and poetics that were exhibited in the solo exhibition InDivenire. La metamorfosi del sughero, curated by Alessandra Redaelli at Palazzo Bomben in Treviso in 2021.
The project received a Special Mention in the ARS (Arte Riuso Sostenibilità) award at the 17th Arte Laguna Prize 2023.
On the occasion of the XXIII Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (23rd Week of the Italian Language in the World), under the theme Italian and Sustainability, he exhibited at the Wannenes Auction House Gallery in the Principality of Monaco, under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Monaco and with the support of Monaco Italia HUB.
In 2023, with the support of Amorim Cork Italia, she realises an urban artwork for the Chianti Classico Consortium, reinterpreting a 3.5 metre high bottle that was exhibited in Gaiole in Chianti (SI). The artwork is part of the project A(rt) message in a (Chianti Classico) bottle curated by Francesco Bruni and Giuseppe D’Alia and is now on permanent display in the hills of Radda in Chianti.
On the occasion of her solo-show Il Fiore del Deserto, curated by Martina Cavallarin with Antonio Caruso at the Museo Santa Caterina in Treviso, she shift ger focus on the current problem of climate change and its consequences on the equilirbium of nature. Taking the two environmental disasters Vaia storm and Acqua Granda as its starting point, the exhibition opens up to dialogue and discussion. On one side of the exhibition venue, visitors encountered pictorial-sculptural artworks based on the recovery of wood from the trees crashed by Vaia. On the other side, paintings on fine cotton canvas depicted the domes of St Mark’s Basilica of Venice and other decorative and architectural details floating in a silent liquid made up of layers of green pigments. The general sensation conveyed was that of water carrying fragments of the barks that distant forests return to the sea… that very sea where everything ultimately flows and merges.
The exhibition was patronised by: the Musei Civici di Treviso, the D.V.R.I. dept. of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Legambiente Treviso.
From the 29th of November 2025 to the 3rd of January 2026, she will exhibit her solo show L’amore finisce dove finisce l’erba. Dopo Vaia, bostrico tipografo, curated by Martina Cavallarin with Antonio Caruso, in collaboration with the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, at the cloister of the former Convent of S.S. Cosma e Damiano in Venice.
The exhibition is supported by scientific and journalistic documentation and has received the patronage of: the Metropolitan City of Venice, the UNESCO Dolomites Foundation, the University of Padua, the DAFNAE Department (Agronomy, Animals, Food, Natural Resources and Environment) of UniPd and the TESAF Department (Territories and Agro-Forestry Systems) of UniPd. The exhibition is organised by Techne Art Service.
From May 9 to November 22, 2026 She is among the exhibiting artists at the National Pavilion of the United Republic of Tanzania at the 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in the project: Minor Frequencies: The Inner Life of a Nation, curated by Lorna Benedict Mashiba and Martina Cavallarin.
Exhibition venue: Supernova, Cannaregio 3218/A – Fondamenta della Sensa and Gervasuti Foundation: Palazzo Canova, Cannaregio 4998 – Calle Lunga Santa Caterina.
She currently lives and works in Castelfranco Veneto.