Nomi Silverman was born in New York City and graduated from the High School of Art and Design and Barnard College. She also studied with Daniel Greene, David Leffel, Gustav Rheiberger, Harvey Dinnerstein, Ron Sherr, George Nama, Bob Blackburn, Burt Silverman, and Michael Mazur.
She has shown at The Housatonic Museum of Art, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk CT, A Shenere Velt Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, the Silvermine Guild of Art in New Canaan, CT, The Fine Arts Gallery at the Westchester Community College in Valhalla, NY, and the Greenwich Arts Center Gallery in Greenwich, CT, amongst other places, and also shown in many group shows, including, the Douro Biennial in Portugal, the International Print Biennial in Taiwan, the Print Triennial, Politically Speaking, Contemporary American Printmaking at the William Patterson University, and Monotypes at the National Academy Museum in New York.
She has won several awards and received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, and a fellowship to Duke University, and was a finalist for the MacDowell Artist Colony.
She was reviewed in Art in Print Magazine, Venu Magazine, The New York Times, The Stamford Advocate, the LA Times, and the Philadelphia Weekly.
Her work is in the collection of numerous museums and collections around the country and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The William Benton Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Housatonic Museum of Art, the Hunterdon Museum of Art, the Fairfield University Art Museum, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, as well as numerous national and international private and public collections.