Kunstraum welcomes Stephanie Silver to our Artst-In-Residence program! Stephanie is a Miami-based artist working primarily in sculpture. Her work draws from close observation of the built and natural environments around her. Using ceramic and wood alongside materials including paint, mesh, resin, and fabric, she abstracts architectural details and botanical forms into sculptural compositions that exaggerate color, scale, and texture.
Raised in South Florida, a landscape where lush vegetation, eccentric architecture, and vivid color often collide, Stephanie developed an early sensitivity to the strange and compelling details that give places their character. Her work gathers fragments of the environment and transforms them into sculptural objects that reflect the distinct atmospheres of the spaces that inspired them.
Stephanie’s practice examines how changes in everyday environments affect community, memory, and our emotional relationship to place. She explores how character-rich spaces foster a sense of connection and belonging, and what is lost when these environments disappear or are replaced.
Her work has been exhibited at venues including Oolite Arts, Satellite Art Show, the Doral Contemporary Art Museum, and the Hollywood Cultural Arts Center. She is a recipient of the Ratcliffe Art + Design Fellowship, the III Points Artist Grant, and the Coconut Grove Arts Festival Visual Arts Scholarship. Welcome, Stephanie!
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Ball moss study. Cutie little epiphytes that politely freeload off live oaks. Been looking at the weird little ways things survive here. From a series of work inspired by Florida flora. 🍊🌴
“Tilly Baby”
8” x 12”
Ceramic
2025
Recently my research has revolved around the way we emotionally react to our built environments and the spaces in between. These ceramic pieces are manifestations of the joy I feel when I come across a unique structure/space. Breaking the monotony of increasingly boring ass developed, Ron DeSantized areas with creative design and human touched spaces is like walking through a carnival or going to a circus. I’m stimmed up. These works are meant to reflect that childlike sense of delight.
