Marco DaSilva

Marco DaSilva is a native New Yorker whose symbol-based paintings explore hybridity through the intersections of his Brazilian-American, queer identity and manic experience. His graphic style of painting uses bright neon colors to evoke a tropical mood of vice and opulence. He creates his own mythology in the process, providing a richly saturated landscape of his own world to the viewer.

DaSilva has exhibited at Galeria del Barrio and Manny Cantor Center as well as solo exhibitions at The Bureau of General Services-Queer Division and Abrons Arts Center. He was a NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Fellow and a Visual Art Fellow for Queer | Art | Mentorship’s 2017-2018 cycle with mentor Liz Collins. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic and Chronogram. In 2019, he was featured in NBC OUT’s “12 queer artists whose work is making us pay attention.”

 
 
 

Marco DaSilva, Neither here nor there A, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Neither here nor there B, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Neither here nor there C, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Neither here nor there D, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Neither here nor there E, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

 

Marco DaSilva, Neither here nor there A, B, C, D, and E, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

 

Marco DaSilva, Detail of Neither here nor there A, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Detail of Neither here nor there B, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Detail of Neither here nor there C, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Detail of Neither here nor there D, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

Marco DaSilva, Detail of Neither here nor there E, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.

 

Marco DaSilva, Details of Neither here nor there A, B, C, D, and E, 2019. Latex paint, Plastic rhinestones, hot glue and polyurethane on canvas; 65 x 18 in.