Belinha Silva
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→ International Contemporary Artists, “Only the Best 2021”.
→ Boomer Magazine #3, Frida Kahlo, December 2021.
→ “Contemporary II” Catalogue by Art Certificate.
→ “ART ANTHOLOGY IV 2022” by Cultural Seal, Madrid.
→ “CANVAS ART FAIR / VENICE 2022” by ITSLIQUID Group.
→ “MAGAZINE Art4Any” September 2022.
→ Catalogue Paris Octobre 2022 Paris Carrousel du Louvre.
→ “Art3f – Salon international d’art contemporain Luxembourg 2022.
→ “Art3f – Salon international d’art contemporain Bruxelles 2022.
→ “Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Magna Graecia Artis et Culturae est ‘MENELAO”
→ “The Portugal News”- Newspaper from 14 January, Ed. 1714 – page 26 to 28.
→ “CONTEMPORARY Celebrity Masters Vol. II”.
→ “5º International Prize LEONARDO DA VINCI”.
→ “ART ANTHOLOGY VI” by Cultural Seal, Madrid.
→ “Art absolument” février-mars 2023, Revue numéro 104.
→ “Art absolument” mars-avril 2023, Revue numéro 105.
→ “CONTEMPORARY Celebrity Masters Vol. III”.
→ “Artavita – Artexop NEW YORK – WORLD WIDE Art Pavilion”.
→ Central Magazine, Issue 86- Spring Edition 2023 – by the Portugal News.
→ “BIENNALE DELLE ARTI VISIVE - MEDUSA”.
→ “CONTEMPORARY Celebrity Masters Vol. 5”.
→ “CONTEMPORARY Celebrity Masters Vol. 1/2024”.
→ “WOW ART CATALOGUE” Vol.1 – page 43 and 44.
→ “CONTEMPORARY Celebrity Masters Vol. 2/2024”.
→ “CONTEMPORARY Celebrity Masters Vol. 3 - 2024”.
→ Official Catalogue of the “International Prize PHOENIX”- in page nº 28.
→ “The Portugal News”- Newspaper from 18 May 2024, Ed. 1784 – page 30.
→ Official Catalogue of the “International Prize PHOENIX for the Arts”.
→ “MAGAZINE Art4Any” June 2024 by Artcertificate.
→ “THE GREAT MASTERS OF LIGHT” – Catalogues of Editorial Giorgio Mondadori
→ “The Portugal News”- Newspaper from 14 September 2024, Ed. 1801, page 29
→ “MASTERFUL MINDS 5 – Artists to Watch in 2024”.
→ “MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS” exhibition “Salvatore Dali Award”.
→ “ANTOLOGIA DI ARTISTI CONTEMPORNEI 2024”.
→ “MASTER ARTISTS TO COLLECT” - Artbook Issue 1, 2025.
→ “International Prize ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2025” - page 223.
→ “Contemporary Art Collectors” - interview by Contemporary Art Collectors.
→ “BIENNALE DELLE ARTI VISIVE – DIVIN ARTISTA MICHELANGELO.
→ “100 Artists of Europe” by Cultural Lab.
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→ International Contemporary Art Fair Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.
→ “Contemporary II” – Boomer Gallery –Tower Bridge- London, UK.
→ “Canvas Venice International Art Fair 2022” – Venice Grand Canal, Italy.
→ “Forgotten Realitie” by Monat Gallery – Madrid, Spain.
→ “Una visione un po’ differente” by Rossocinabro Gallery – Roma, Italy.
→ “Nuovi Mondi” by Rossocinabro Gallery – Roma, Italy.
→ Salon International d’Art Contemporain Art3f – Luxembourg .
→ Art Shopping Paris – Carrousel du Louvre - Paris, France.
→ Salon International d’Art Contemporain Art3f – Bruxelles, Belgique.
→ Biennale delle Arte visive “Terra d’Olranto” – Lecce, Italy.
→ “A Cor do Tempo” – Leiria, Portugal.
→ “World Art Dubai” Exhibition in Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai.
→ New York Art Fair – World Wide Art & Artavita at Artexpo - New York, USA.
→ NYC Artexpo, Manhattan, New York, USA.
→ "Artistic Trails" - Alma Art Gallery - Brussels, Belguim.
→ Parallax Art Fair - Kensington Town Hall W8 7NX - London, UK.
→ International Art Expo - In Palazzo Moncada, Museum in Caltanissetta, Italy.
→ ArtBIAS 2 -(Budapest International Art Show 2) in Golden Duck Gallery, Raday Street 31/a, Budapest, Hungary.
→ “Culture & Patrimoine” 5ème Édition au Château de Dissay, France.
→ “À l’Ombre des Couleurs 2024” au Château Montchat, Lyon, France.
→ “Landscape Art Exhibition” in Artist Space Gallery- New York, USA.
→ “Salvatore Dali Award – Houston 2024" -Exhibition in “Museum of The Americas” Miami, Floriada USA.
→ “The Integration of Porcelain in the Contemporary Art by Belinha Silva” personal exhibition in the Galeria de Arte Samora Barros in Albufeira, Portugal.
→ “ChristmART’24” exhibition in Golden Duck Gallery- Budapest, Hungary.
→ “Parallax Art Fair London”- London, UK.
→ “Exposição Colectiva” in Galeria Jorge Martins, Marinha Grande, Portugal.
→ “The Holy Art” a virtual exhibition omline.
→ “Artexpo New York art fair, 2025” – Circle Foundation for the Arts, New York USA.
→ “Art Santa Fe art fair, 2025”– by Artavita, New Mexico, USA.
→ Biennale Universelle Arte visive 2025 “Divin Artist - Michelangelo” Lecce, Italy.
→ “Artavita – Artexpo New Year” New York, USA.
→ Onboart Exhibition 2026- Vueling Aircraft: Exhibition, All over Europe.
→ Salon International des Beaux-Arts Luxembourg – Casino 2000, Luxembourg.
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→ "International Art Award 'Menelao' of the High Recognition to Personalities in the world of Art, Science and Culture".
→ "Honorificentiam Artium Meritis al Maestro: Belinha Silva".
→ "5th International Prize Leonardo da Vinci".
→ "International Prize PEGASUS for the Arts".
→ "TOP Artists - The Protagonists of Contemporary Art”.
→ "International Art Award 'ZEUS'".
→ "GRATIFICATIO TITULUS HONORIFICUS MAGISTER MAGNO CUM GAUDIO: to Belinha Silva".
→ “Art Diamond Museum Artists – to Belinha Silva”.
→ "International Art Prize MEDUSA".
→ “Ambassador of Art 2024 – to Belinha Silva for Portugal”.
→ "6º International Prize Leonardo da Vinci".
→ "International Prize PHOENIX for the Arts”.
→ “Oscar Award for Creativity”.
→ “Certificato di Antologia di Artisti Contemporanei”.
→ “Médaille d’OR & Diplôme de la SAAF ( Société des Auteurs & Artistes Francophones".
→ “International Career Awards 2024 to Belinha Silva”.
→ "International Prize Artist of the Year 2025”.
→ “Persona Art Honors 2025”.
→ "Prize DIVIN ARTIST - MICHELANGELO".
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Belinha Silva is a contemporary Portuguese artist whose work unfolds through a sensitive relationship with the world, shaped by movement, intuition, and material exploration. Born in Lisbon, she left Portugal at a very young age and has lived between the Benelux countries, Greece, and Portugal — a formative European journey that continues to inform her artistic sensibility.
Although her academic path initially led her toward finance, art remained a constant and intimate presence. Drawing accompanied her from childhood, along with an instinctive attraction to museums, exhibitions, and visual narratives. In 2005, during an art workshop in Brussels, she experienced what she calls “The Revelation” — a pivotal moment when creation revealed itself as an emotional and existential necessity.
Working outside academic frameworks, Belinha developed a self-taught and intuitive practice guided by emotion, experimentation, and freedom. Her visual language moves between abstraction, surrealism, and pop art, often rooted in personal, cultural, or emotional dimensions. Her works, and especially her abstract paintings, invite a perceptual experience: beneath what may appear to be a simple interplay of colours lie hidden forms, figures, and narratives, revealed to those who take the time to look more closely.
Material exploration lies at the heart of her practice and led to the invention of her signature technique, Porcelain Fusion on Canvas, based on the encounter of two radically opposite materials — porcelain, fragile and precious, and canvas, flexible and painterly. This singular approach embodies her desire to unite fragility and strength, intuition and transformation, through a sensitive dialogue between material and emotion.
Through her work, Belinha offers an experience that transcends the image, becoming an intimate encounter with emotion, imagination, and the silent complexity of inner landscapes.
My work arises from a deep need to explore what lies beyond appearances, where material becomes language and emotion takes form. I create intuitively, guided by feeling, curiosity, and freedom, without seeking to impose a single meaning, but rather to open a space for dialogue with the viewer.
Abstraction plays an essential role in my practice. It allows me to engage with perception, to suggest rather than define. Beneath colours, textures, and rhythms, allegorical worlds often emerge, inhabited by terrestrial or aquatic beings, by existing or imagined places, and by fragments of stories — visible only to those willing to slow down and take the time to look differently. I am drawn to the idea that a work reveals itself over time, through contemplation, like an encounter.
Materiality lies at the heart of my artistic approach. As a porcelain painter, I worked for many years within the traditional forms of this medium. As my artistic practice evolved, I felt the need to give porcelain a new life — to bring it into dialogue with contemporary visual language and to fully integrate it into the space of contemporary art galleries. Although porcelain carries an ancient and precious history, it remains a material whose artistic expression has evolved only marginally over time.
It is from this desire for transformation that my signature technique, Porcelain Fusion on Canvas, was born — from the deliberate encounter of two materials that are fundamentally opposed: porcelain, rigid, fragile, and precious, and canvas, flexible, absorbent, and painterly. Through this union, I seek to shift the boundaries of porcelain, to free it from conventional uses and offer it a renewed place within contemporary art.
In this process, porcelain is broken; its white fragments, painted and fired repeatedly at very high temperatures, are then assembled and adhered to the canvas to become the central figures of the work. This gesture becomes a symbolic language for me — one of rupture, transformation, and rebirth. Through this approach, I bring together opposites: control and release, precision and intuition, strength and vulnerability.
Each work thus becomes an emotional territory, a space where material and imagination enter into dialogue, inviting the viewer into an intimate, sensitive, and personal experience. For me, art is a path of discovery and sharing — a way to explore what moves us, what connects us, and what, in silence, transforms us.
