Silvia Rigon holds a degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice (Italy), and a MFA from the Department of Design | Media Arts at UCLA (2002). Before joining Pasadena City College she worked at the Walt Disney Company and taught at RISD and UCLA. Her work has been exhibited internationally in such venues as: The California Institute of Nanotechnology in Los Angeles; The Pacific Design center, Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, Japan; The Center for Contemporary Art in Tallin, Estonia; The Parachute Factory (Yale University), New Haven.