SYLVIA GONZALEZ is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator in Chicago, creating spaces where collective wellness takes on critical dialogue, art making, and community building. Her visual and audio work is a ballad to nostalgia–the borderline between myth and memory. Silvia has curated and facilitated workshops to address structures of power, imagination, repair, collective care, play, confinement, and freedom. She is a member of the Chicago ACT (Artists Creating Transformation) Collective and a previous collaborator in the 96 ACRES Project. As the organizer and administrator of (People of Color) Artist Space, she connects artists of color from across Chicago to resources through social meet-ups, salons, and development opportunities. Two extensions of POCAS include POCAS Salon, a co-learning space for artists to connect across various topics and ideas, and POCAS + Friends–inviting intentional relationship-building as a means of support and care. Silvia has recently developed Sala: A Living Room of Ideas on Lumpen Public Radio. Sala invites artists, cultural workers, and civically minded people to discuss liberation, education, organizing, community, and practices toward healing. She is a current Co-Lab resident at Chicago Art Department.
For more, please visit her website: silviainesgonzalez.com or instagram.com/silvia.ines.gonzalez.
Bio as of 3/2025