Silva was born in Manila, Philippines, in 1972 and graduated with honors and a full scholarship from the Philippine government at the Philippine High School for the Arts. He immigrated to the United States at 17, obtained a BFA at Otis College of Art and Design with a Getty Institute Arts Internship to work as an artist at the Social and Public Art Resource Center. This led him on a journey to creating more than a hundred public art installations all over the United States. He received his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Md., and was recognized with a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Program Award. He just completed multiple art components and murals for the Philippine Nationality Room at the Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh which will be dedicated on June 9,2019.
Visit Eliseo Art Arambulo Silva’s website to see his extensive work of paintings, murals, and commissioned art: https://www.eliseoartsilva.com/about
One of Eliseo Art Arambulo Silva’s murals completed in the mid 90’s right in the heart of Historic Filipinotown. https://youtu.be/e5g4TSECbqo
Eliseo Art Silva Video Presentation gat CBBC January 2019 by James Castillo