B. 1980

Lives and works between Los Angeles and New Mexico

Silverstein's art works are built on the belief that meaning is assembled from fragments of experience placed in relation to one another. She cuts large-scale paintings into see-through tassels, layers translucent paint, and collages fragments of one work onto another, in a highly physical practice aimed at creating moments of contact and collision.

She studied Fine Art and Comparative Religion at Columbia University and later attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she began taking on portrait commissions. In New York she formed a close friendship with painter Chuck Close, whose use of the grid to dissolve the hierarchy between figure and ground became a lasting influence. She was an inaugural advisor to the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, selecting works from Frieze for donation to Tate Modern. In 2009 she began a decade-long project which began on a beach in Iceland and culminated in her first institutional solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson.

Silverstein continues to expand her practice between Los Angeles and New Mexico , placing work in significant institutions including Dewooy, Aspen, Zabludowicz, and Burger collections. She is self-represented.