Shelly Silver was born in New York City and studied at Cornell University and at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She is a video and filmmaker who invents her own version of commercial television formats and inserts within them a personalized view-point. Her new narrative tech-niques force a reading that resists easy identification. Silver’s work draws attention to and exposes the media’s singular vision, opening room for a variety of alternative voicesMichael Nash, Long Beach Museum of Art, wrote about her project 'The Houses That Are Left':.“In a sit-com purgatory, taped in living color, a makeshift community of souls places yuppies under twenty-four hour surveillance, seen in filmic vignettes of black and white, a sort of ' Thirty Something’ noir. New York artist Shelly Silver’s illusive meta-story materializes between the modes and genres of television, while commenting upon the essential nature of TV narratives. The Houses That Are Left is an ambitious film/video dramatic comedy pilot that also mixes in documentary and deconstructive modes with exceptional fluency. ”As a professional CMX editor, Silver has worked with artists like William Wegman, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Anderson and Michael Smith. As writer and director Shelly Silver has been working in film and video for the last ten years. Her work has been shown throughout the United States and Europe on public television stations including WNET, WGBH, WKCTA, BBC2, Atanor TV Spain, and in museums, galleries and festivals..