Daisy Silver’s research and teaching focuses on modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on the Americas. Her doctoral research looked at a network of artists and designers who were working between Mexico and California between 1945 and 1968. It examined how these creatives cultivated a new vision of modernism through collaborative, interdisciplinary practices which spanned international borders. The thesis also looked at the legacy of this moment as it has been revitalised by contemporary curatorial and artistic practices.
Silver received a PhD from the Department of History of Art at University College London, 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