Jonny Silver

Artist and filmmaker Jonny Silver was born in Toronto. He studied art, philosophy and literature at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas, and then returned to Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art & Design where he studied under some of Canada’s most celebrated visual artists. As a student, he won awards for his work in sculpture, installation art and experimental film. He followed a filmmaking career starting at the National Film Board of Canada, the producer of his experimental music film, Kubota, then continuing as a freelance director with projects including the features Lonely Child (1989) and Pio And The Cracks (2005), documentary L’heure Zulu (1999), psychodrama Rue d'Enfer (2007), dance film Ecstasy Forbidden (2010), and installation film Return Of The Cubes (2017), all of which gained wide international exposure. Silver’s image-making included a body of work in digital photography and collage. His photo-compositions have been featured in art books, web-based projects and group exhibitions. Silver spent 2013 teaching Photography and Visual Aesthetics at the Ciné Institute in Jacmel, Haiti.