Pacifico Silano

Bio

Though he admits that his youthful artistic ambitions were “mostly to make watercolor paintings about Tori Amos,” artist and photographer Pacifico Silano has spent the bulk of his career investigating and documenting the lost histories of the LGBTQ community. His work has been exhibited in group shows, including The Bronx Museum of the Arts; CONTEXT, Miami; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and ClampArt, New York City. He is a winner of the Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation and a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize, as well as being a 2016 fellow in photography with the New York Foundation for the Arts. For the past few years, he has used vintage gay pornography as one of his primary mediums and sources of inspiration.