With roots in the Dominican Republic, Silvia López Chavez is an interdisciplinary artist who has based her art practice in the Boston area for over fifteen years. Her work investigates the basic human need to connect with each other on multiple levels: socially, politically, and culturally. She explores the intellectual and emotional narratives of joy, struggle, acceptance, and assimilation as well as the change and growth that affect daily life. She is motivated by the power of the creative process as an agent for positive change.

Her work is informed by her own personal narratives and responds to her identities as an immigrant woman of color, an educator, a visual artist and a designer. She holds a BFA in Illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and has exhibited her work in solo and group shows including the Fitchburg Art Museum, Boston Children's Museum, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Bakalar, Mills, Grossman, and Towne galleries.

In addition to her fine art practice, she is an award-winning design professional, working for over 13 years with high-profile companies and institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.