Career
Her work has been exhibited in The Tapei Biennial, the Villa Arson, Nice, the Whitney Biennial, and the Hammer Museum. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, The Secession, Vienna, and LAX<>ART
Silvia Kolbowski was born in 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She earned an associate"s degree from Franconia College, New Hampshire in 1974.
Kolbowski earned her Bachelor of Surgery from Hunter College, graduating magna cum laude in 1980.
She was then a fellow for The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies until 1983. Kolbowski recrops appropriated photographic imagery and creates repositioned assemblages.
Kolbowski is on the advisory board of October journal, where she was a co-editor between 1993 and 2000. She has taught at the Whitney Independent Research Program, the Commodity Credit Corporation program of the Ecole Superiéure d’Art Visuel, Geneva, the Architecture Department of Parsons The New School for Design, New York, and the School of Art at The Cooper Union.
