Born
St. Louis, Missouri
Education
University of Missouri, B.S. English and Psychology
Solo Exhibitions
2000 Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University,
“Slipping Man,” Delaware Ohio
1999 Lallak & Tom Gallery, "Sex Tales", Chicago, Illinois
1997 Yancey Richardson Gallery, “Rough Cuts,”
New York, NY
1990 Galeria Spectrum, “Recent Works”, Zaragoza,
Spain
1988 Galerie Agathe Gaillard, “Lovers & Strangers,”
Two Person Show with Ralph Gibson,
Paris, France
1984 Greenberg Gallery, “Short Stories”, St. Louis,
Missouri
Group Exhibitions
2023 “Strike Fast Dance Lightly”, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY 2022, Newport Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection” Newport, RI 2020 Prime House, “Tempus Fugit” Intimate works on paper from the personal collection of Eric Fischl
and April Gornick 2018 Museum of Art, “Literary”, Bates College,
Lewiston, Maine
Perlman Museum, “I’m not a Girl,” Carleton
College Northfield, MN
2017 Spazio Damiani, Bologna, Italy
2017 Galleria Spectrum Sotos, Zaragosa, Spain
2013 Samek Gallery, Bucknell University, “Collection,”
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
2010 Verge 2010 Miami, “Suzanne Hill Curatorial
Projects NY,” Miami Beach, Florida
2009 The Trout Gallery, “Through the Lens: Studies in Photography,” Dickinson College, Carisle, PA
2007 Albin O. Kuhn Gallery, University of Maryland,
“Recent Acquisitions”, Baltimore, Maryland.
2006 Katonah Museum of Art, “Hotpics/06”,
Katonah, NY
2001 Kuhn Gallery, University of Maryland, "Light2,
Images from Photography Collection", Baltimore,
Maryland
1998 The New York Photography Fair, New York,
Photography Chicago '98" , Chicago, Illinois
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1997 Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
The Dog Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1996 New York Academy of the Arts, New York, NY
Yancey Richardson Gallery, “The Kiss”, New York, NY
Thread Waxing Space, “Collection in Context: From
The Buhl Collection” New York ,NY
1991 Arco, Madrid, Spain
Decouvertes Art Actuel 91, The Grand Palais, Paris
Brooklyn Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,”
Brooklyn, NY
1990 Tarazona Foto Gallery, Tarazona, Spain
1988 Museum of Modern Art, “Recent Acquisitions”, NY, NY
Awards
1978 Cultural Council Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Ross Museum of Art, Ohio Wesleyan, Delaware, Ohio
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
York Prep, New York, N.Y.
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.
Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova, Pennsylvania
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
Davis Museum of Art, Wellseley College, Wellseley, Massachusetts
Perlman Museum of Art, Carleton College, Northfield MN
McMullen Museum of Art, Brighton,Massachusetts
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Housatanic Museum of Art, Bridgeport,Connecticut
DeGoyler Library, SMU, Dallas, Texas
Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
Newport Museum of Art, Newport, Rhode Island
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
Articles and Reviews
Columbus Dispatch, "The Arts", Columbus, Ohio, April 30, 2000
The Transcript, Delaware, Ohio, April 19, 2000
The Delaware Gazette, Delaware, Ohio, April 2000
New City, Chicago, Illinois, January-February 1999
Waterfront Week, Vol. 7.5, New York, NY, March 13, 1997
Visual, No. Trece, Madrid, Spain, 1991
FV #25, Paris, France, Article issued in 1990
Tarazona Foto, Tarazona, Spain, 1990
El Dia, Periodico Aragones, “El Mundo Turbador de D. Seltzer”, Zaragoza, Spain, February 1990
Heraldo De Aragon, “Spectrum: David Seltzer”, Zaragoza, Spain, February 22, 1990
Diario, Fotografia “Exposicion de David Seltzer, by Alicia Murria, Zaragoza, Spain, March 1990
El Pais, “Laberintos Sobre El Rostro”, Zaragoza, Spain, 1990
Clichés, Article by Miles Barth, Paris, France, October 1988
New York Talk, New York, NY, issued July 1985
St. Louis Post Dispatch, Article by Patricia Degener, St. Louis, Missouri, 1984
Publications
“David Seltzer/Rough Cuts”, New York, NY, 1995
“Slipping Man”, NY, 2000
A Thousand Hounds, Taschen Publisher, New York, NY 2000
Eros, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc. Publisher, New York, NY 1996
Knowledge of the Raw, publisher Damiani, 2015
Works in Selected Publications
Interview, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Metropolis, Self, Seventeen, Family Circle, American Health
Record and CD Covers
Warner Bros. Records, Geffen Records, A & M Records, PolyGram Records