Silvia Lizama
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SILVIA LIZAMA
Silvia Lizama was born in Havana, Cuba
and currently lives in Hollywood, Florida.
She received her MFA from Rochester
Institute of Technology in Rochester, New
York, and her BFA degree from Barry
University in Miami Shores, Florida, where
she is now Chair of the Department of Fine
Arts and Professor of Photography.
Having exhibited her hand colored
photographs since 1978, her work has
gained national and international attention
and has been included in prestigious
exhibitions and collections. Major awards
include the Southern Arts Federation/NEA
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
(1993) and the South Florida Cultural
Consortium Grant (1992), as well as a
Miami Dade Art in Public Places
commission for the Deering Estate in
Miami, Florida (1999).
Ms. Lizama’s work appears in the following
publications: Espacio C: Arte
Contemporaneo, Camargo, España
(2006), Breaking Barriers (Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Publication, 1997),
Aperture141 Cuba: Image and
Imagination (Aperture, Fall 1995), Outside
Cuba/Fuera de Cuba (Rutgers University
Publication, 1989), Photographic
Retouching (Eastman Kodak Publication,
1987), and Darkroom Expression
(Eastman Kodak Publication, 1984) among
others.
Silvia Lizama was born in Havana, Cuba
and currently lives in Hollywood, Florida.
She received her MFA from Rochester
Institute of Technology in Rochester, New
York, and her BFA degree from Barry
University in Miami Shores, Florida, where
she is now Chair of the Department of Fine
Arts and Professor of Photography.
Having exhibited her hand colored
photographs since 1978, her work has
gained national and international attention
and has been included in prestigious
exhibitions and collections. Major awards
include the Southern Arts Federation/NEA
Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
(1993) and the South Florida Cultural
Consortium Grant (1992), as well as a
Miami Dade Art in Public Places
commission for the Deering Estate in
Miami, Florida (1999).
Ms. Lizama’s work appears in the following
publications: Espacio C: Arte
Contemporaneo, Camargo, España
(2006), Breaking Barriers (Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Publication, 1997),
Aperture141 Cuba: Image and
Imagination (Aperture, Fall 1995), Outside
Cuba/Fuera de Cuba (Rutgers University
Publication, 1989), Photographic
Retouching (Eastman Kodak Publication,
1987), and Darkroom Expression
(Eastman Kodak Publication, 1984) among
others.