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Roberto Silva Ortiz (b.1984) is a Puerto Rican artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Trained in oil on canvas, he has explored other mediums, such as sculpture and printmaking.
His work's primary sources of influence are neo-Figurative art, Classicism, and Magical Realism.
Silva Ortiz received a BFA from Academia San Carlos in Havana, Cuba. He was awarded the Painting Fellowship Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY, and The H. Peter Khan Family Fellowship at The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca, NY.
He has exhibited internationally in Cuba, Spain, Norway, Kosovo and the United States.