Silvia Poloto has been a dedicated artist since her journey from Sao Paulo, Brazil to San Francisco, California  in the early 1990’s. Poloto’s romantic immigration to the U.S. inspired her creative soul, motivating her to abandon a career in engineering and business to pursue the visual arts.

Poloto has worked in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, painting and video.  Elements of each of these media find their home in her current work.  Over the years, Poloto’s passion has translated into an impressive following of collectors and institutions around the globe.  Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad, including United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, China, and elsewhere.

In the Bay Area, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Italian American Museum and the DeYoung Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence in 2001. Poloto’s work has been acquired by more than 50 institutional and corporate collections around the US and by more than 800 private collectors around the world.