Silvia Ros

Silvia Ros is a Cuban-American, Miami-based photographer with a master’s degree in architecture. After a decade as a museum photographer, she launched a freelance career, concentrating not only on her own creative projects such as Photographing Cuba: My Myth, My Reality and Average Places, but serving as the official Art Basel Miami Beach photographer for five years, and with clients including Ford, ICA Miami, Artsy and Instagram. In 2014 the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s permanent collection acquired 86 of her photographs documenting the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Silvia was awarded a 2017 Knight Foundation Miami Arts Challenge grant and an Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award for a project on Cuban Modernist Architects in collaboration with the University of Miami School of Architecture. In 2019, Silvia was awarded a State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs Grant and a Knight Miami Arts Challenge grant for Concrete.Miami, documenting the brutalist and tropical concrete architecture of South Florida. An image from Concrete.Miami, Everglades Vista, Shark Valley Observation Tower, is in the permanent art collection of the Miami International Airport. In 2020, Silvia received her second Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award for the photo series Post 67: American Legion, American Stories.