Daisy Silver’s research and teaching focuses on modern and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the Americas. Her current research examines transnational artist networks in the United States and Latin America from 1945 to the present. Her doctoral research revealed the cross-border and interdisciplinary nature of artistic collaborations between Mexico and California at mid-century.
Silver received a PhD from the Department of History of Art at University College London in 2024, MA in History of Art from UCL and MA (Hons) Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh.
Teaching
- BA 1 Topic: The Global City: Urban Issues in Contemporary Art
- BA 2/BA 3 Histories: The Modern Interior
Conferences
- ‘Imaging and Imagining Mexican Modernism’ presented at ‘Art of History’, University of Nottingham, 13-14 June 2024
- ‘Rethinking Domestic Space: Clara Porset’s El Arte en la Vida Diaria 1952’, presented at The Design History Society Annual Conference 2023: ‘Displaying Design: History, Criticism, and Curatorial Discourses’, 7-9 September 2023
- ‘Designed to be Constructive: Ruth Asawa & Clara Porset’, presented at ‘Ruth Asawa Symposium’, Modern Art Oxford, 07 June 2022
- ‘Knots, Seams, Hinges: Discrepancias con C.P. Leonor Antunes’, presented at ‘Sculpture, Art, Craft or Industry’, University of York, 29 January 2020