SILVI NAÇI
(b. 1987, Albania) lives and works between Albania and Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

2019        MFA in Photography & Media | California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2011        BFA in Fine Arts & Graphic Design | Suffolk University, Boston, MA
2008        Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019       CARE, MFA Final Exhibition, Gallery D300 | California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
The Bow Wake | REEF, Los Angeles, CA
2018       WELL,, Gallery A402 | California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2014       I Wish I Could Eat You Alive | Voltage Coffee & Art, Cambridge, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
SWELL, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
Mind the Gap, Altreforme, Udine, Italy
Woven Together, Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Acid Free, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
The Archive as Encounter, Bulevard, Art and Media Institute, AL
Ekrani i Artit, Art House, Shkodër, AL
MEDIUM, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Adornment | Artifact, Band of Vices, curated by jill moniz, Los Angeles, CA
Manifesta 14 Prishtina, XK
Biddy’s Garden, curated by jill moniz, Transformative Arts, Los Angeles
Radical Dawn, curated by Alicia Piller, Luna Anaïs Gallery
2021
Shaping Things, Essex Arts Center, Lawrence, MA
Synime (Ambitions), National Gallery of Art, Tirana, AL, Curated by Adela Demetja and Erëmirë Krasniqi
Synime (Ambitions), The National Gallery of Kosovo, Curated by Adela Demetja and Erëmirë Krasniqi
2020
What She Said, Ace/121 Gallery | Glendale, CA
Nowhere Better Than Here, Nomad Pavilion | Venice Biennale, Venice, CA
Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
2019
Family Notions, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, Project Space | New York, NY
Ghosts, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Boston Art Book Fair, Boston, MA
Well Born | The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
Haunts: by the CalArts School of Art MFA 2019 | Galleries: JOAN, Track 16, Ste 534, Los Angeles, CA / Curated by Aurora Tang
Elsewhere Museum and Residency | Greensboro, NC
ha mer ika: Institutional Interruptions Performance, CalArts Dance Festival | Redcat, Los Angeles
ha mer ika: Institutional Interruptions Performance, CalArts Dance Festival | MOCA Geffen, Los Angeles
L.A. Art Book Fair, CalArts | Los Angeles, CA
Other Places Art Fair, CalArts | Angels Gate Park, San Pedro, CA
SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition by Helen Molesworth | Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
Shelter or Playground: Performances | Schindler House, MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA
CalArts Group Exhibition | Imagine Entertainment, Beverly Hills, CA
Greater LA MFA Exhibition | California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
How We Heal, National Day of Racial Healing | Array Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shelter or Playground: The House of Dust at the Schindler House | MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Counterpose, after Allan Sekula | Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Super Flexible, MFA Group Exhibition | Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Of The Nature Relating to Stone | John Baldessari Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Clay Club x Furniture Club Forever | Permanent Set Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Crossing Borders | Lesley University Parker Gallery @ the Atrium, Cambridge, MA
Crossing Borders | Sandra and Philip Gordon Gallery, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA
2017
MFA Video Show | Curated by Elizabeth Preger | Gallery D-300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Terrain Biennial Exhibition | Association of Hysteric Curator | Los Angeles, CA
President Ravi Rajan’s Official Inauguration group exhibition | California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Artists at Boston Center for the Arts | Curated by David Guerra | Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Stand Up: All Women* group exhibition | Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Cambridge Art Association 2017 National Prize Show | Cambridge, MA
Big Red & Shiny group show | FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
In Presence | Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
2016
Video Night | Yve Yang, Boston, MA
A Group Thing | Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, MA
Collaboration with Mark Cooper | YuYu China Blue, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2015
Black Mass | Eridianos Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2013
depict | San Francisco, CA
2012
New Goosefish Show featuring Silvi Naçi and Megan King, Goosefish Press, Boston, MA
Inaugural Show | Goosefish Press, Boston, MA
2011
A Collection of Bostonia Collectives | Lincoln Arts Project – The Lap Gallery, Waltham, MA
Deadstock, U.G.L.Y. | (You Gotta Love Yourself) Gallery, New Bedford, MA
Human Powered Works | Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
Paint Pens in Purses (The All Female Urban Art Collective) | The Hourglass Tattoo Shop, Cambridge, MA
21 Art Show | A Street Gallery, Boston, MA
The Drawing Project | Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA
2010
Proof of Purchase Benefit | Samsøñ, Boston, MA
Morpheme | Suffolk University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

PROJECTS

CURRENT LA: FOOD Michael Rakowitz | Project Manager LA (2019)
Served as a liaison between Rakowitz studio, DysonWomack, ICA LA, and the Parks and Rec department. Worked with the DCA to obtain permits for public dinners in relationship with the art installation at Pan Pacific Park. Organized dinners and harvest trips with Rakowitz studio and Iraqi families, veterans, and community members

Mary Kelly for Desert X | Creative and Studio Assistant (2018-19)
Working with renowned artist Mary Kelly in coordinating immersive public performance for Desert X Festival, 2019. Coordinating with 100 performers in the re-creation of 1970s feminist performance.

STAND UP: Womxn* You Should Know | Founder, Director (2016 – present)
Direct interviews, lectures, and exhibitions with women across disciplines in marginalized cultures. Publish online interviews in collaboration with Big Red & Shiny. Curate lectures series in collaboration with The Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA. Experienced in project management, outreach, writing, public speaking, logistical coordination

Big Red & Shiny | Staff Writer, Editor (2016-2017)
Art coverage for Boston's Independent Online Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine.

Paul Ramirez Jonas Public Trust | Performer (2016)
Acted as a performer in interactive public artwork by New York artist Paul Ramirez Jonas Public Trust asking to consider the meaning of a promise and our word to present a billboard of constantly changing pledges. Together we created a piece of art about promises, those contracts we made with each other and ourselves, and the potent speech acts that keep a society together.

The Joining Project | Founder, Art Director (2014)
Managed and led a team of 100+ artists around the United States and internationally. Transformed Harvard Bridge into communal place for public art by creating swaths of handmade crochet works. Connected Boston and Cambridge communities through yarn making in response to Marathon bombing. Organized and led interactive events and performance in the transformed space throughout the summer.

SELECTED AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS

2023
Vermont Studio Center, VT
7th National Archival Conference, Manastir, AL
Bulevard, Art and Media Institute, AL

2022
Évora NAU, Évora, PT

2020
emi kuriyama spirit award
Emergency ACUS Fellow Grants, Arts in a Changing America, CA

2019
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin, Germany
Elsewhere Museum and Residency, Greensboro, NC

2018
Tim Disney Excellence in Storytelling Prize, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
Arts in a Changing America, Valencia, CA
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Travel Grant, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
The Dean’s Fund, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
The Bartman Fund, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA

2017
The Bartman Fund, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
St. Botolph's Foundation, Grant Nominee

2016
Public Trust by Paul Ramirez Jonas & Curator Dan Byers, Artist Panel, District Hall, Boston, MA
First Prize Award | Cambridge Art Association 2017 National Prize Show
Art + Tech: How Technology is Disrupting the Art World, General Assembly, Boston, MA

2015
Visiting Artist Lecture, Rhode Island College, Rhode Island, RI
St. Botolph's Foundation, Grant Nominee
Fine Art Review Panel, New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA

2011
Fine Arts Jurors Award, Boston, MA

PUBLICATIONS

2023
FUTURE/PRESENT: Culture in a Changing America, the ArtChangeUS capstone anthology,
edited by Daniela Alvarez, Roberta Uno, Elizabeth Webb, Duke Press University [forthcoming]
Alia Ahmad: A meadow … from a dream, Artsy Editorial, Los Angeles, CA

2022
queerness and craft, Re-Research Essay, X–TRA Online
Mark McKnight and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Hunter Fashion Magazine, Issue 39, Milan, IT

2021
Kyungmi Shin: citizen, not barbarian. Various Small Fires. Catalog Interview Contribution.
Exhibition Review. Kyungmi Shin: citizen, not barbarian. Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

2020
Artists at Work: Candice Lin, East of Borneo, Los Angeles, CA
Magda Fernández: Look Me in The Eye, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Arnheim Gallery,
Catalog Essay Contribution.

2019
Haunts publication, CalArts, 2019
Visual Essay, Rico Gatson, NKA Journal for Contemporary Art, Ithaca, NY
Review, Dell M. Hamilton, NKA Journal for Contemporary Art, Ithaca, NY
Artists at Work: Todd Gray, East of Borneo, Los Angeles, CA

2017
Nari Ward: Neutralize Naturalization. Ica Boston. Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA
Alida Cervantes: Majas, cambujas y virreinacas. Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA
In Conversation with Artist & Curator Carlos Jiménez Cahua, Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA
In Conversation with artist Magda Fernandez, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
In Conversation with artist Jimena Bermejo, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Wild Child: Beverly Semmes. Samsøñ. Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA
The NO That Brought Us Together: KNOW NO by Masary Studios, Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA
Scaffolding For Future Repairs: A Goldstein Reflex. Audrey Goldstein: The Repair Reflex, Gallery Kayafas, Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA
ISSUES OF POWER: Resilience and Healing. Juan Roberto Diago: The Past of This Afro-Cuban Present at The Cooper Gallery, Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA

2016
In Conversation with artist and linguist Furen Dai, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
In Conversation with artist Dell M. Hamilton, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
ISSUES OF POWER: The Space Between Ignorance & Acknowledgement. Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl...” at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University, Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA
TO BE IS TO BE PERCEIVED: Inside Public Trust, Paul Ramirez Jonas. Big Red & Shiny, Boston, MA

PUBLICATIONS

2021
X–TRA Online, Re-Research Essay (forthcoming)
Kyungmi Shin: citizen, not barbarian. Various Small Fires. Catalog Interview Contribution.
Exhibition Review. Kyungmi Shin: citizen, not barbarian. Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles

2020
Artists at Work: Candice Lin, East of Borneo, Los Angeles, CA
Magda Fernández: Look Me in The Eye, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Arnheim Gallery,
Catalog Essay Contribution.

CURATORIAL

2017 STAND UP: Womxn* You Should Know, Group Exhibition | Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
ReCiPrOcity | Co-Curator, Group Exhibition | Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Hydra Effect | Boston LBBTQ Artist Alliance, Midway Studios, Boston, MA
2016 Solidarity with Standing Rock, Benefit & Auction | The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Language Product | Sandra and Philip Gordon Gallery, Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA
2015 Lightning Rod | Alyse Stuck | §üb∫amsøñ projekte, Boston, MA
Berlin Walled | Liquid Art House, Boston, MA
2014 Skies, Water & Death | The Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Fluxus | Liquid Art House, Boston, MA
2013 Street Diamonds II | Fourth Wall Project: Street Diamonds II, Boston, MA
Another World | Blanc Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2012 Street Diamonds | Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
New Goosefish Show | Goosefish Press, Boston, MA
Shift | Goosefish Press, Boston, MA
2011 Human Powered Works | Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA
2010 Emergency Show | Fourth Wall Project, Boston, MA

SELECTED PRESS

2022 Secondary Archive, KATARZYNA KOZYRA FOUNDATION, Warsaw
Artist Archive, Harabel Contemporary, Albania
Adornment | Artifact, Los Angeles Art Guide, Dec 2022, Hyperallergic, Matt Stromberg
Radical Dawn, Los Angeles Art Guide, July 2022, Hyperallergic, Matt Stromberg
2017 ICA Staff Picks, Summer 2017
TAKE Magazine, Summer Exhibitions Staff Picks
Gatekeeper | Accordion, Issue#3 | Winter/Spring
TAKE Magazine | Interview by Rowen Harper Gray | Fall Issue
2016 A Night of Support For Standing Rock by: Meredith Goldstein | Boston Globe
Here to Create: Silvi Naçi by: Courtney Moy, Big Red & Shiny
2015 Lightning Rod, Alyse Stuck at Subsamsøñ | Boston Hassle by: Scout Hutchinson
5 Questions with Silvi Naçi | Boston Hassle by: Scout Hutchinson
2014 Liquid Art House | Univision Boston by: Sarah Suarez
Colorful Yarn Links Boston to Cambridge Over Mass. Ave. Bridge | The Artery by: Andrea Shea
The Joining Project | PRI’s The World by: Andrea Crossan
Skies, Water & Death at The Distillery Gallery | Big Red & Shiny | Boston Hassle
2013 Another World at Blanc Gallery | Art New England |The Boston Globe
2012 Street Diamonds | That’s The Hookup
2011 Human Powered Works | Core 77 Design Magazine & Resource
2010 The All Female Urban Art Collective | Paint Pens in Purses

COLLECTIONS

Public Art Fund of the Republic of Kosova, XK
California Institute of the Arts Library, Valencia, CA
Elsewhere Museum and Residency, Greensboro, NC
W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Colby College Libraries, Waterville, ME

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Todd Gray Studio | Studio Manager (1.2020 – present)
Ashley Hunt Studio | Studio Manager (4.2019 – present)]
Arts in a Changing America | Curatorial and Development Fellow (9.2018 – 5.2019)
California Institute of the Arts | Photography and Media Archivist (9.2017 – 5.2019)
Samsøñ | Assistant Director (3.2014 – 8.2016)
Liquid Art House | Art Director (1.2013 – 5.2015)
MIT List Visual Arts Center | Curatorial Intern (2013)

TEACHING

2022 Visiting Artist, Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2019 – present Photography Faculty, New York Film Academy, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - 2019 Graduate Teaching Assistant, California Institute of the Arts Library, Valencia, CA