Silvia Gruner was born in Mexico City in 1959, where she lives and works. She is an installation and video artist who combines photography, video and sculpture in works employing repetition, gesture and simplicity. She received the Media Arts Fellowship funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1999. Her work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum in San Diego, the Caracas Fine Arts Museum, Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara, Carrillo Gil Museum, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, Vancouver Art Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, Galería Nina Menocal, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Centro Wilfredo Lam in Havana. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores del Arte (SNCA). Gruner holds degrees from Betzalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.