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BIO / CV

Silvia Muleo is a conceptual and multidisciplinary artist born in Pisa, Italy, working across video, painting, and participatory installation. Her research is driven by the urge to unravel how reality is understood across digital and physical spaces. Coming of age within Web 2.0 (participatory social web) Muleo formed relationships, community, and her sense of self in a third space shaped by the constant overlap of online and offline worlds. This hybrid condition continues to inform her practice.

Muleo depicts light  as both material and metaphor: it is the condition for reflection, projection, and visibility, oscillating between presence and absence. Her compositions analyze the visual forms that construct and disrupt perception: Phone screens, for instance, simultaneously reveal and erase worlds, faces, and narratives. The work carries the language of our time: fragmentation, mediation, repetition, and erasure. 

 

Muleo holds an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (New York, New York), from which she was awarded a scholarship for merit and the Alumni Scholarship Thesis Found. She got her BA in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (Florence, Italy) with honors. 

Her work has been exhibited in the U.S.A. and Europe, in both private and institutional venues including  New Collectors Gallery (New York, 2024, 2022),  tutu gallery (New York, 2024) , Ki Smith gallery (New York, 2023), Centro Expo Ciampi (Florence Regional Palace, 2021), PALP Museum (Pontedera, Italy, 2020).

Her work has been reviewed in several magazine such as White Hot Magazine, ArTribune, Corriere Fiorentino, La Repubblica Firenze.

Born in 1998, Pisa (Italy)

Lives and works between Pisa and Brooklyn

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Photo by Rita Correia

Education

2023

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2021

 

Master in Fine Arts

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Bachelor in Painting

Summa cum laude

School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Firence, Floirence, Italy

Residencies and Awards

2023

2021-2023

2021

Alumni Scholarship Thesis Found

Artistic Merit MFA Scholarship

Margine resiency

School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts

Florence, Italy

Exhibitions

two-person show

2024

Refractions

 

New Collectors, New York, NY

group shows

2026

2026

2025

2024

2024

2023

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2021

2020

What You See is Already Shifting

The Nurturer and The Hunter in a Room of One’s Own

NANNYCAM

Bandaged moment

How are you doing? 

Below Constructions

Material Mixtape

Double Trouble

Other Visions

Le Vie della Forma: Il richiamo della luce

Margine 

Margine

25° Premio nazionale per le arti visive Giovanni Gronchi

Cub_ism_Artspace, Shanghai, China

Jersey CIty Public Library, New Jersey

Frisson Gallery, New York, NY

Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

TheBLANC, New York, NY

Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY

New Collectors, New York, NY

Village One Gallery, New York, NY

SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY

Vicchio, Florence

Centro Expò Ciampi, Florence

Palazzo Acciaiuoli, Florence

PALP Museum, Pontedera

Press 

Liam Otero, NYC Exhibition Highlights: Beverly Fishman, NANNYCAM, Dena Novak, and more, White Hot Magazine, July 2025

Interview: Silvia Muleo, EW collective, July 17, 2024  

'Light as Erasure, Doubling, and Distortion in Silvia Muleo’s Multifaceted Practice', 121 Click, July 16th, 2024

Noah Tavlin,Reflections on Refraction’, White Hot Magazine, March 19, 2024​

‘Il Mondo Riflesso dell’artista Silvia Muleo: esplorando la Nuova Realtà’, Astarte Art, March 8, 2024​

‘Meet Silvia Muleo, Local stories’, Voyage LA, February 5th, 2024​

Suboart Magazine, February 2024, pp 24-25​

Valentina Anselmi, Margine: la mostra conclusiva della residenza artistica all'Hotel Torre Guelfa, Exibart, May 16, 2021

Divina Vitale, ‘Sette artisti per sette stanze: una residenza creativa nell’hotel, Corriere Fiorentino, April 22, 2021

Ilaria Ciuti, ‘L’hotel a quattro stelle aperto solo per gli artisti tre mesi di residenza e una mostra’, La Repubblica Firenze, Front page and page 5, April 15, 2021

Agnese Cornelli, ‘A Firenze hotel chiusi diventano residenze d’artista. Il caso del Torre Guelfa’, Artribune, April 15, 2021

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Publications

Margine, Libera Editrice Fiorentina, May 2021 (ISBN 978-88-6500-183-7)​

25° Premio Nazionale di Arti Visive Giovanni Gronchi exhibition catalogue, CDL libri, October 2020

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