This website contains selected work and research. Portfolio and CV available upon request.
EDUCATION
2021 Royal College of Art, MA Photography (distinction)
2017 ESMAD, Audiovisual Communication Technology
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Recipe for a Pocket
Calcio, London, UK
2022 Hopscotch
Liangzhu Centre of Arts, Hangzhou, CN
2022 Come and go
Flat Deux, London, UK
2022 When a Good Photograph Goes Unnoticed
Palfrey, London, UK
2021 La Nuit et la forêt
CUSP, Hangzhou, CN
2021 December Exhitibion
NŌUA, Bodø, NO
2021 After The High Tide
Cromwell Place, London, UK
2021 Selected RCA 2021 Graduates
Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2021 Final Not Over - Again
Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
2020 The Listening Eye: Sound Seminar by Jon Wozencroft
I K L E C T I K, London, UK
2020 WIP Show 2020
Royal College of Art, London, UK
2018 Beauty and Consolation, Emerging DST Award
Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival, Braga, PT
2018 Base Lx
Forte Santo António, Lisbon, PT
2018 Unexpected
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, HU
2017 Projeto 17
Portuguese Centre of Photography, Porto, PT
2017 XIX Cerveira International Art Biennial
Cultural Forum, Vila Nova de Cerveira, PT
RESIDENCIES
2023 Group K Workshop with Raymond Meeks, Federico Clavarino, IFAC, Athens, GR
2022 Research Art & Science Residency at Kuenstlerische Tatsachen, TRAFO, Jena, DE
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
2023 Project Rooms Grant, Ci.CLO - Platform for artistic research, production and intervention in the medium of photography, PT
2022 Bloomberg New Contemporaries (shortlisted), UK
2021 New Photography, Dundee Contemporary, UK
2020 The RCA Fund, Royal College of Art, UK
2018 Emerging DST Photography Award, Encontros da Imagem International Photography Festival, PT
TALKS
2024 Photo Match, Fotofestiwal, Lódz, POL
2023 Project Rooms, conversation between Jayne Dyer, Pablo Berástegui e Virgílio Ferreira, Bienal ‘23 Fotografia do Porto, Ci.CLO
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto, PT
2022 Endpaper Talks (Let’s talk about art books)
Parallel Institute, Hangzhou, CN
2021 After the Hight Tide, with Rut Blees Luxemburg and Dario di Paolantonio
Royal College of Art, London, UK
COLLECTIONS
Simon Bishop’s private collection
PUBLICATIONS
2021 After the High Tide, Folium Publishing
2021 Workshowgrow, Natascha Caruana
PRESS
CUSP Talk
SOURCE Graduate Photography Online 2021
RCA 2021
CONTACT
work.ritasilva@gmail.com