ANA DA SILVA
ANA DA SILVA
Ana da Silva is a founding member and songwriter of pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. Across four albums, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it to be – an act of raw expression, not any one sound. They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk context, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and innovative noise guitar playing.
Jenn Pelly
photo by Shirley O'Loughlin
RECENT PERFORMANCES/SHOWS
2023
White Cube, London - Imi Knoebel.
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2020
Centre Pompidou, Paris - The Raincoats.
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2018
Tate Modern, London - Europe?
Lisson Gallery, London - 'For Dan Graham'
Casa da Musica, Porto - The Raincoats.
MUDAS, Calheta, Madeira - MADEIRADIG.
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2017
The Kitchen, NYC, USA - 'The Raincoats'.
ICA, London - London Short Film Festival.
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2016
ICA, London - 'Neo Naturists'.
Barbican, London - 'Rough Trade 40th'.
CCA, Glasgow, UK - The Raincoats.
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2015
The Kitchen, NYC, USA - The Raincoats.
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2014
Silencio, Paris - Mia Hansen-Løve.
Studio Voltaire, London - Judith Bernstein.
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2013
CCCB, Barcelona - 'Primera Persona'.
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​2010
MoMA, NYC, USA - 'The Raincoats'.​
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2011
Montreal, Canada - 'Art-Montreal'.
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2009
'NPG, London - 'Iconic'.
BFI, South Bank, London - 'Fairytales'.
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RECENT COMMISSIONS & TALKS
2024
'As Muralhas' - XI Encontro Literário de Leitura, UMa, Funchal, Portugal.
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2022
'Born in Flames' - Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto, Portugal.
'Manifesto' - WeTransfer, Online.
Collaboration with Rita Braga - KISMIF, Porto, Portugal.
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2021
Panel - 'Open Call Funchal 2027', Funchal, Portugal.
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2020
'Shelter' - ISSUE, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
'Abrigo' - Semibreve, Braga, Portugal
'Q Awards' - Roundhouse, London, UK.
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BOOKS
ANA DA SILVA
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'Love, oh love', Rough Trade Editions - No. 4, Rough Trade Books, 2018.
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'The Raincoats booklet',
Self-published, 1980.
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THE RAINCOATS
Audrey Golden, 'Shouting Out Loud - Lives of The Raincoats',
White Rabbit, forthcoming 2025.
Jenn Pelly, 'The Raincoats' The Raincoats, 33 1/3, Bloomsbury, 2017.​​​​
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