Victoria Selbach "Equanimity"

Victoria Selbach is a visual artist focusing on women. Selbach’s work began as a celebration of the complex layers of her contemporaries and grew into an exploration of ‘how we find ourselves where we are today’. Victoria Selbach uses luminous nude painted portraits of women as well as collage and assemblage to construct the tableaus of this journey. Each piece contributes a link in her quest to understand herself and the experiences of women within the pretext and manifestations of culture.

Victoria Selbach was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania surrounded by makers who used their hands to shape and color their world. This infused her early understanding of her ability to communicate through making. Selbach had the benefit of a childhood arts education at Carnegie Mellon Museum of Art and Carnegie Mellon University, from there she dove into the creative currents of New York City and graduated from Parsons School of Design. A long time resident of New York, Selbach recently moved to expand her studio in rural Connecticut.

Selbach has exhibited in galleries, museums and collections internationally including the Heckscher Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and the MEAM museum in Barcelona. The Huffington Post reviewed Selbach’s work in an article by Priscilla Frank, ‘Finally, Artist Paints Female Nudes As They Really Are’ and Selbach discussed her work with Nicole Gordon in an interview for Beautiful Bizarre magazine, ‘Victoria Selbach: Painting With Emotional Layers’. Selbach, as a writer and curator, is a strong advocate for women artists. Her contributions to PoetsArtists magazine include a series of interviews with art world 'Trail Blazers and Mavericks’, and the curation of the blockbuster exhibition ‘The Artists Gaze; Seeing Women in the 21st Century’.