BIO

Bio

EDUCATIONSan Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2002   MFA in Photography, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1983   MA in Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1972   BA in Botany, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

EXHIBITIONS
One-Person Exhibitions
2016Outdoor World, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford, CA
2014Outdoor World, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012Animal Stories, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
          Animal Stories, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2011Animal Stories, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010Science Pets, R.I.P., Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
          Carol Selter, Personal Hiker, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
2008The Personal Hiking Project, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2005Garden, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2003Carol Selter/Learning Lab, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
2002Interactions, MFA Exhibition, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2000Carol Selter, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
          Scientific Influence: Deviation From Normal, Smith Gallery,
          University of California, Santa Cruz
1997Sacrifice, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
          Emerging Artists, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1996Small Animals, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
1995“Seafood:” Photographs by Carol Selter, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
1994Carol Selter: Recent Works, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017Artifact and Interpretation, North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2016Anne and Mark’s Art Party 2016, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA
           Krowsworkers, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015Botanica: All Things Plant Life, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
          Dateline 012, Dateline Gallery, Denver, CO
2014The MAC @ 20, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
          Takeover, Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
2013Peaceable Kingdom: Animals Real and Imagined, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2012Keeping Time, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
          Captured: Specimens in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
          Random Acts of Time, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
          Charlie James Gallery at Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2011Charlie James Gallery at Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
          Summer of Video Art – Oakland Video Vague, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
          Zombie-Proof House, di Rosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
2010Know the Rules–Then Break Them, di Rosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
          en Trance, Galerie Califia, Horazdovice, Czech Republik
2009en Trance, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2008Gallery 16 15th Anniversary Group Show, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2006Hybrid Fields, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2005ECO: Art About the Environment, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
          A Group of Mostly Unrelated Things, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2002Biophilia, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe & The State Capitol of New Mexico, Santa Fe
          Imaging/Imagining, Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
          Chlorophilia, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
          Eight Years: The Editions of Gallery 16, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2000Somewhat Corrupt, Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY
          Animals, Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
          Phelan Art Award-Photography Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1999Natural Selection, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998Phelan Art Award-Photography Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1997Between Culture and Commerce, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
1996SECA Electronic Media Award 1996, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
          San Francisco, CA
          Pixel Perfect:  Bay Area Digital Photographers, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
          Nature Reconsidered, San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA

SELECTED AWARDS
Alternate Status for 2009, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA (2008)
Honorable Mention/Fellowship Alternate, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA (2006)
Phelan Art Award-Photography, The San Francisco Foundation (1999-2000)
Honorable Mention, Phelan Art Award-Photography, The San Francisco Foundation (1997)
SECA Award in Electronic Media (1996)
Honorable Mention, Phelan Art Award-Photography, The San Francisco Foundation (1995)
Winner of Bay Area All-Media Competition, San Jose State University (1994)

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Rene and Veronica Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
John Pfahl, Buffalo, NY
Rupert Jenkins, Denver, CO
William Laven and Christine Pielenz, Half Moon Bay, CA
Byron and Elizabeth Ryono, Los Altos, CA
John DeMerritt, Berkeley, CA

LECTURES AND ARTIST’S PRESENTATIONS
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno (in conjunction with Learning Lab), 2003
California College of Arts (class on Light), 1997
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (in conjunction with SECA exhibition), 1996
SF Camerawork, (in conjunction with Paradise Lost), 1993

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art of California Discovery Awards, January, 1994,  p. 65.
Baker, Kenneth, “Plugged-in Photography in San Jose,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 1996, Sec D, p. 1,3.
Curtis, Cathy, “Natural Reactions to the ‘World’,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1994, Sec. F, p. 1-2.
Beardshear, Kristi, “Take a Hike,” Artslant, December, 2008.
Carol Selter at Gallery 16.
Finkel, Jori, “Over There, A Critical Guide to San Francisco Events” Express, October 24, 1997, p. 42.
Cheng, DeWitt, “Carol Selter: ‘Animal Stories’ at Gallery 16,” Art Ltd., March/April, 2012. p. 28.
Carol Selter: “Animal Stories” at Gallery 16.
Gleason, Mat, “Top 11 LA Art Shows of 2011,” The Huffington Post, December 28, 2011.
Top 11 LA Art Shows of 2011.
Golonu, Berin, “Scientific Influences,” Artweek, October, 2000, p. 6.
Hirsch, Robert, ed., Exploring Color Photography, 3rd ed., Brown and Benchmark, Dubuque,  IA, 1997, p. 145, 176.
Hirsch, Robert, “Points of Friction:  Artists Critique Technology and Science,” Exposure, Vol. 31.1/2, Society for Photographic Education, 1997, p. 40-56.
Hirsch, Robert, Seizing The Light: A History of Photography, McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA, 2000, p. 477, 481.
Hirsch, Robert and AnJanette Brush, “From Dots to Pixels:  Tracing Truth and Desire,” U-Turn, E-Zine Issue 1 (1998), http:// www.uturn.org/umag1.htm.
Hirsch, Robert and John Valentino, Photographic Possibilities, Focal Press, Boston, MA, 2001, p. 239.
Knight, Christopher, “The Cost of Damaged Habitats,” Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2011, p. D14.
Carol Selter at Charlie James Gallery
Ladewig, Carol, “San Francisco (Carol Selter, Lauren Davies at Gallery 16)”, Art Papers, July/August, 2000, p. 45,46.
Maclay, Catherine, “Photography Loses Its Innocence To Technology,” San Jose Mercury-News, September 13, 1996, “Eye,” p. 49. New Letters, Vol. 62, No. 2, Spring, 1996, p.42,60, 68.
Nixon, Bruce, “Human Nature,” Artweek, February 18, 1993, p. 4-5.
Paglia, Michael, “Review: The Gildar Gallery Makes a Power Play with Takeover,” Denver Westword, July 30, 2014. Denver Westword reviews Takeover.
Ross, Phil, “It’s All Good,” Leonardo, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2004, p. 180-181.
Scanlon, Jessie, “Rats,” Wired, April, 1998, p.170-171.
Westbrook, Lindsay, “Imaging/Imagining,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 20, 2002, “Critic’s Choice: Art,”  p. 76.
Welsh, Clarissa J., “Sleeping Beauty,” Artweek, September 22, 1994, p. 24-25.
Whiteside, Amber, “Lauren Davies and Carol Selter at Gallery 16,” Artweek, June, 2005, p. 14-15.