Pedro Silva is a Brazilian artist based in New York whose work bridges life and art through an ongoing process of transformation. From an early age, he explored visual expression through organic forms, textures, flowers, and birds, developing an instinctive language rooted in material and gesture. A self-taught artist, Silva embraces “mistakes” as essential to uncovering and refining his voice.
His series The Madames honored the resilience and influence of feminine energy in his life, establishing a foundation that continues to inform his work. After moving to New York in 2014, he developed Spell Art, a body of work centered on self-expression, affirmation, and identity. Through text, repetition, and humor, often inspired by street culture and queer iconography, Silva explored the relationship between inner dialogue and public image.
This phase evolved through his counting paintings, a meditative practice combining repetition, breath, and mark-making, where each brushstroke became an act of focus and intention. This process led to The Million Dollars Painting, where he engaged themes of value, ambition, and self-worth, marking a pivotal moment of personal and artistic clarity.
Emerging from this cycle with a renewed sense of freedom, Silva’s current work moves toward abstraction with greater openness. His process is physical and instinctive, often working on multiple canvases simultaneously in a continuous rhythm of building, erasing, and reconfiguring. Through layered gestures, color, and movement, his paintings explore expansion, balance, and the tension between control and release.
While traces of figuration remain, forms are often suggested, disrupted, or dissolved. A strong feminine presence continues to move through the work, expressed through contrasts of softness and aggression, fluidity and structure. In this more abstract phase, Silva embraces the undefined, creating spaces where emotion and meaning remain open, holding complexity without forcing resolution.
