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Biography

BORN 1952

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Doesn't Display Properly?

Education

1971-74

1970-71

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, BFA, Painting

Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri

Museum Collections

2013

Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas

One Person Exhibitions

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  • "Journeys Remembered" - C.G. Jung Center, Houston, Texas

  • "Lagoon Hues" - Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • Cidnee Patrick Gallery, Dallas, Texas

  • C.G. Jung Center, Houston, Texas

  • "Monotypes" - Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

  • "Reflections of Landscapes of My Travels" - Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, New York

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • Wyndy Morehead Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

  • "New Paintings" - Bradford Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, California

  • McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • Galerie Kathareze, Tillburg, The Netherlands

  • "Monotypes" - Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "New Paintings" - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California

  • McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Recent Paintings" - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California

  • "New Paintings" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • The Council for Visual and Performing Arts, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas

  • "New Work" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Recent Paintings" - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California

  • "Paintings" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "A Year in Palo Alto" - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California

  • "Paintings" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Paintings" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

Selected Group Exhibitions

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  • "THE BOX" - Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

  • "WoW - Women of Winter Street Exhibition" - Winter Street Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Twenty-Five: A Celebration" - Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas

  • Julie Brook Alexander and Sandi Seltzer Bryant - Margolis Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Arlington Arts Center 40th Resident Alumni Exhibition" - Arlington, Virgina

  • "40 by 40 Gala" - Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

  • "If You Cut It They Will Come" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Three of a Kind" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • ART BIKE 2010 - Discovery Green, Houston, Texas

  • "2nd Annual Parallel Universes - The Art of Quantum Physics" - Winter Street Gallery & Open Studios, Houston, Texas

  • Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas

  • "Back in Red" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Parallel Universes - The Art of Quantum Physics" - Winter Street Gallery & Open, Houston, Texas

  • Hunting Art Prize - Houston, Texas

  • "Red Revisited" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "A Touch of Red" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "100% Centennial CFA Alumni Exhibition" - Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • "A Little More Red" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Something Red" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Miniatures" - Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

  • "Something Blue" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Members Gallery, Buffalo, New York

  • McCord Development Exhibition - Travis Tower, Houston, Texas

  • "THE BOX" - Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

  • "For the Birds" - Artfull Garden, Houston, Texas

  • "Miniatures" - Annual Invitational Exhibition, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

  • "The Asian Aesthetic: Interpretations" - Bradford Gallery, San Francisco, California

  • "Botanicals" - Bradford Gallery, San Francisco, California

  • McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "It Moves" - Artfull Garden, Houston, Texas

  • "Membership Show" - Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas - Curated by Annette Carlozzi

  • "Presence/Absence/Presence" - Barbara Davis Gallery, Pennzoil Building, Houston, Texas - Curated by Lynn Randolph

  • "Deck the Halls" - Purse Building Studios, Houston, Texas

  • "Bodies in Evidence" - The Mannequin Show, New Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "POWER IN TRANSITION" - Works by the Houston Women's Caucus for Art, San Felipe Office Plaza, Inc.

  • "Black & White" - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California

  • McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • Rocking Chair Auction, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Houston, Texas

  • Invitational Exhibition

  • "Take a Seat" - DIFFA, Decorative Center, Houston, Texas

  • "Art in 3 Dimensions: An Artisans Exhibition" - The Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas

  • "Art in Motion" - Deuster Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Ex-Officio Exhibition" - Firehouse Gallery, Women's Caucus for Art, Houston, Texas

  • "The Cross Show" - Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Critic's Choice" - Dallas Art Dealers' Association, D'Art, Dallas, Texas

  • "Tenth Anniversary" - Exhibition, Alpha Gallery, Denver, Colorado

  • "Small Works" - Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California

  • "Fifth Annual Invitational Plate Show" - Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "64 Beds Project" - Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Texas

  • "Art 1990" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Messages from the South" - Sewall Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas - Curated by Stella Dobbins and Elizabeth McBride

  • "Jeunne Peinture" - Grand Palais, Paris, France

  • "Third Annual Invitational Plate Show" - Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "American Art Today" - Mall Galleries, London, England

  • Randolph Moore Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

  • McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Women: Traumas and Memories" - American Institute for Creative Living, Staten Island, New York

  • "Three to Five" - Diverse Works, Houston, Texas

  • "Tenth Anniversary Exhibition" - Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia

  • "Second Annual Invitational Plate Show" - Perception Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Abstract Sensibilities Now, A Selection from the Houston Area" - Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas - Curated by Sally Sprout

  • "Painters" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Paper" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Propaganda!" - Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas

  • "Three Person Exhibition" - McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Houston Artists in Los Angeles" - Los Angeles Gallery of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

  • "WCA at Lawndale" - Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas

  • "Houston Untitled" - Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas

Selected Juried Exhibitions

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  • "2010 Hunting Art Prize" - Houston, Texas

  • "2009 Hunting Art Prize" - Houston, Texas

  • "Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2007" - Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas - Curated by Carter Foster, Curator of Drawings, Whitney Museum, New York

  • "Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2006" - Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Beth Israel Juried Art 2003" - Houston, Texas - Juried by Ann Lancaster, Cindi Strauss, and Terrie Sultan

  • "Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000" - Houston, Texas - Juried by Bruce Guenther. Honorable Mention.

  • "The Mayor's Summit for Women" - George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Sally Sprout

  • "51st Annual Competition" - Museums of Abilene, Abilene, Texas - Juried by Clint Willour

  • "Visual Arts Alliance 1994 Exhibition" - Nations Bank Center, Houston, Texas - Curated by Dr. William Otten

  • "Assuming Less...Understanding More" - Houston Area Women's Center's Juried Women's Art Exhibition, INNOVA, Houston, Texas - Juried by Alvia Wardlaw, Sally Sprout, and Nivia Gonzalez

  • "Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition" - Visual Arts Alliance, Transco Gallery, Houston, Texas

  • "Common Ground Beyond Boundaries" - Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas - Juried by Marilyn Zeitlin

  • "Houston Area Exhibition" - Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas - Juried by Nancy and Ed Keinholz, Alison de Lima Greene, and Richard Koshalek

  • "East End Show" - Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Richard Marshall

  • "The 30th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art 1987" - Chautauqua, New York - Juried by Nina Feaudenheim. The Katie Howard Memorial Award.

  • "East End Show" - Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Luis Jimenez

  • "21st Juried Art Exhibition" - Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Mary Jane Jacobs

  • "Sensibilities" - Contemporary Women in Visual Arts, W.A.R.M. Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • "29th Annual Delta Art Exhibition" - Little Rock, Arkansas - Juried by Grace Glueck

  • "Texas Art Celebration '86" - Two Houston Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Dr. Michael Danoff

  • "Second Annual East End Show" - Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Walter Hopps

  • "Shelter '85" - Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C. - Curated by Sarah Clarke Hollander, Harry Rand, and David Tannour

  • "New Texas Prints" - Diverse Works, Houston, Texas - Juried by Ofelia Garcia

  • "Self-Image Exhibition" - Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Derek Boshier, Rachel Hecker, James Surls, and Barry Whistler

  • "International Art Competition" - Los Angeles, California. Certificate.

  • "The Third Coast" - Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Alan Gerson, Margaret Miller, and Barry Whistler

  • "27th Annual Delta Art Exhibition" - Little Rock, Arkansas - Juried by Richard Koshalek

  • "Emerging Artist Competition and Exhibition" - Dallas, Texas - Juried by Foster Goldstrom

  • "Nineteenth Annual Juried Art Exhibition" - Houston, Texas - Juried by Jane Livingston. Two Honorable Mentions.

  • "United States National Fine Arts Competition" - Tallahassee, Florida

  • "East End Show" - Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by Frank Fajarta, Moira Kelly, and Judith McCandless

  • "WCA National Juried Exhibition" - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - Juried by Audrey Flack, Joyce Kozloff, and Joan Marter

  • "Amarillo Competition" - Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas - Juried by Susie Kalil and William Peterson

  • "WCA Tri-State: Florida, Louisiana, and Texas" - Juried by Dorothy Gillespie

  • "Seventh Biennial Five State Art Exhibition" - Port Arthur, Texas - Juried by Jane Livingston. Honorable Mention.

  • "Eighteenth Annual Juried Art Exhibition" - Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas - Juried by John Russell

Bibliography

  • "Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985," Peter Gershon, 2018, University Press

  • "Sandi Seltzer Bryant, 'New Works' at McMurtrey Gallery," Donna Tennant, Art Ltd. Magazine, March 2014

  • "If you cut it, they will come," Donna Tennant, Visual Art Source Online Magazine, October 10, 2013

  • Front Row. Prod. Asst. Meghan Hendley. KUHF, Houston, Texas. Taped December 16, 2009

  • "Creating Working Communities: Houston's Artist Studio Spaces," Arts Houston, p. 16, December, 2007, Tria Wood

  • "The Art Loop," Houston Modern Luxury, p. 52, January, 2007, Wesley Gunter

  • "Winter Street Studios," 002 Magazine, August, 2005, Natasha Jacob

  • "Seltzer Bryant lets viewers draw their own conclusions," Houston Chronicle, January 13, 2005, Arlene Nisson Lassin

  • "Sandi Seltzer Bryant 2005: New Paintings," Review, Houston Press, January 20, 2005

  • "Joe Naujokas and Sandi Seltzer Bryant," Art News, May, 2002, Deidre Stein Greben

  • "Naujokas and Bryant: Two True Believers," Gallery & Studio, Vol. 4 No. 3, February/March 2002

  • "Udder Love," Arts Houston, Vol. 2, September 2001, Cindy Williams

  • "An exhibition of abstract works inspired by train travels," The Jewish Herald-Voice, p. 43, December 1, 1999

  • "Houston Weizman Committee hosts Dov Keren-Ya'ar," The Jewish Herald-Voice, p. 13, February 15, 1995. Houston Chronicle, Reproduction, Saturday, December 31, 1994. Houston Life, Reproduction, p. 14, December 18 - January 14, 1994

  • "Annual auction of chairs benefits charity for AIDS," The Houston Post, February 27, 1993, Deborah Mann Lake

  • "East Freeway Studios: The Next Soho," The Jewish Herald-Voice, October 4, 1990, Ellen Rosenbush Methner

  • "3 Artists Show 3 Variations on Landscapes," Houston Post, February 1, 1990, Susan Chadwick

  • "The Marks Come from the Marks," The Jewish Herald-Voice, January 18, 1990, Ellen Rosenbush Methner

  • "Ignore Theme to Enjoy Exhibit," Houston Chronicle, December 5, 1989, Patricia Johnson

  • "A Show by Young Artists," Time Tribune, June 11, 1989, Dave Howland

  • "Hey Lady, Is It Art Yet?" Palo Alto Weekly, June 7, 1989, Tim Goodman

  • "Youngters Open Up to Abstract Painting," San Jose Mercury News, June 5, 1989, Kathleen Donnely

  • "No Bluebonnets, No Yellow Roses: Essays on Texas Women in the Arts," Sylvia Moore (ed.), Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1988

  • "Women Artists Converge on Houston," Houston Woman Magazine, February, 1988, Kathy Balshaw-Biddle

  • "Two Major Events Show Off Innercity," Inner-View, Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2, 1988

  • "Choices and Decisions," In Art, September, 1987, Nancy Webb. Inquirer, A Folio of Art and Ideas, Summer, 1986

  • "JCC Exhibit Competent, If Not Especially Fresh," Houston Chronicle, Fall, 1983, Patricia Johnson

  • "Eve's Eye II at the Joan Ling Gallery," Southeast Entertainer, May 23, 1981

Selected Public Collections

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

  • Museum of Southeast Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

  • Alston and Bird, Atlanta, Georgia

  • Divco West, Los Angeles, California

  • Rusche Distribution, Houston, Texas

  • Paragon Point, Richmond, California

  • Duke Energy, Houston, Texas

  • Thayer Lodging Group Inc., Westin Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Washington National Airport, Hilton, Washington, D.C.

  • First Quadrant, Pasadena, California

  • Capstar Hotel Corporation, Washington, D.C.

  • Embassy Suites, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Delta Club, LaGuardia International Airport, New York, New York

  • Oak Valley Resort, Seoul, Korea

  • Tremont Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

  • Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana

  • Saks Fifth Avenue, La Jolla, California

  • First Atlantic Capital, New York, New York

  • PayChem Corporation, Menlo Park, California

  • Paragon Gateway, Alameda, California

  • Transco Energy Incorporated, Houston, Texas

  • IBM, Corpus Christi, Texas

  • Realsec, Houston, Texas

  • Tenneco, Houston, Texas

  • A.D.P., Houston, Texas

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