Tara Sellios

Education

2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography/Art History
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

Permanent Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Infernalis, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2017 Sinuous, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2017 Testimony, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Luxuria, Gallery Kayafas, Boston MA
2012 Of the Flesh, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2011 Lessons of Impermanence, Suffolk University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Photo Brussels Festival 04, Hangar Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Massachusetts College of Art and Design 29th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA
2018 IN VIVO: The Nature of Nature, Noorderlicht House of Photography Festival, Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen, Netherlands
2018 Massachusetts College of Art and Design 29th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA
2017 We Dream | Beauty Beyond and Beneath, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Spark, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA
2017 Stare! (curated by Karen Haas of MFA Boston), Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
2017 Massachusetts College of Art and Design 28th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA
2016 Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
2016 15th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2015 Discomfort Food, SNHU McIninch Art Gallery, Manchester, NH
2015 ARTcetera Art Auction, Boston, MA
2015 Massachusetts College of Art and Design 26th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA 2013 Comestibles, Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College, Boston, MA
2015 ARTcetera Art Auction, Boston, MA
2015 Consumed: Nourishment & Indulgence, Willard Wankelman Gallery, Bowling Green, OH
2015 Still Life Lives!, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2015 Boston-Como: More than an Art Exchange, Como, Italy
2015 Exposure 2013: 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2015 Party for the Park Auction, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2015 Alumni Invitational Exhibition, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
2012 Consuming Passion: Food as Metaphor in Art, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
2012 Cruel Sea: Law of Fishes, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2012 Party for the Park auction, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2011 Days of Plenty, JDC Fine Art, San Diego, CA
2011 ARTcetera Art Auction, Boston, MA
2011 17th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2011 Of Gods and Monsters (auction), Curator’s Selection, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, with guest curator Andrew Mroczek, Boston, MA
2010 Direct Objects: Still Life as Subject, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2010 Class Pictures, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Taking In: The Best of AIB Photography, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA BFA Exhibition, Main Gallery at The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
2010 On Life and Death, Porter Exchange Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Grants/Fellowships

2020 Assets for Artists Capacity Building Grant. Mass MoCA
2019 Massachusetts Cultural Council Photography Fellowship
2019 Opportunity Fund, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture
2018 Getty Images Creative Bursary
2016 Photography Fellowship, Puffin Foundation
2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council Photography Fellowship

Awards

2017 Grand Prize, “Liquid 2017” juried by Deborah Clomp Ching, New York Center for Photographic Art, NY, NY
2015 Freestyle Photographic Supplies Award, Joyce Elaine Grant Exhibition
2011 US Winner, Magenta: Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers 2011, Toronto, ON
2011 Griffin Museum of Photography Juried Exhibition Award, Winchester, MA
2010 Honorable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2010 Honorable Mention, London International Creative Competition
2010 Purchase Prize, BFA Exhibition Competition, juried by Joseph Carroll
2008 Grand Prize Winner, Annual Portfolio Scholarship Competition, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

Publications

2019 Infernalis, What Will You Remember?, Sep 19
2019 Infernalis, The Ticket: Boston Globe Critic’s Pick, Sep 17
2017 Tara Sellios, Home Sick Magazine, Issue No. 1, Oct/Nov
2017 Tara Sellios: Testimony, Bokeh Bokeh Photo, Jul 10
2017 The Grotesque and Beautiful World of Testimony, Pro Photo Supply, Mar 6
2017 Top Art Shows of the Month, Testimony, Willamette Week, Mar 2
2016 Your Daily Photograph, Duncan Miller Gallery, Sep 13
2015 Testimony, Shoot Me Magazine No. 32, Dec
2015 Found Art: Tara Sellios, Boston Magazine, Fall 2015
2015 In Focus: Tara Sellios’ Morbid Still Lifes, American Photo Magazine, Aug 20
2015 Tara Sellios: Luxuria, Boston Globe, June 24
2015 Luxuria, Art New England, June 18
2015 Tara Sellios: Luxuria, Lenscratch, June 18
2015 Shock and Awe!, Elin Spring Photography Blog Review, May 27
2015 Critic’s Pick, Tara Sellios: Luxuria, Boston Globe, May 27
2015 Cover story, Photograph Magazine, May/June
2014 Lessons of Impermanence, Landscape Stories, Issue 17
2014 Tara Sellios: A Studio Visit, Don’t Take Pictures, Issue 3, Fall 2014
2014 Consumed: The Photography of Tara Sellios, Dark Rye Magazine, Issue 19 Pt. 2, June 23
2014 Luxuria, Guide to Unusual Photography, Mar 14
2014 Potentially Shocking Subjects in Art, Pt. 2, ArtSake, Mar 10
2014 Eleven Contemporary Baroque Still Lifes That Will Lure You to the Dark Side, The Huffington Post, Feb 16
2014 The Viscerally Powerful Still Life Work of Tara Sellios, Juxtapoz Magazine, Feb 5
2014 Luxuria: A Project by Tara Sellios, Cult Magazine, Jan 27
2014 Tara Sellios: Luxuria, Unless You Will, Jan 6
2013 Featured Museum: Still Life Lives!, Artscope Magazine, Nov/Dec
2013 Fan Mail: Tara Sellios, Daily Serving, Aug 30
2013 Emerging: Tara Sellios’ Modern Vanitas Photography, Wonderland Magazine, Aug/Sep
2013 Photographers Find the Interesting in the Ordinary in BU PRC Exhibit, MetroWest Daily News, July 4
2013 Wild World of Lives, Living in Annual “Exposure” Show, Boston Globe, June 11
2013 Prism Contemporary Photography Magazine, Issue 10, May/June
2013 Tara Sellios: Impulses, le Journal de la Photographie, Feb 9
2013 Tara Sellios: Life and Death, aCurator, Feb 4
2013 What’s Up at Boston-area Art Galleries, Boston Globe, Jan 22
2012 Dutch Still Life Inspired Photography with a Grotesque Twist, Feature Shoot, Dec 31
2012 A Special Day with Tara Sellios, 591 Photography, Dec 15
2012 Signified, 3200k Quarterly, Vol. 1 Issue 2, Aug 18
2012 Foreign Exchange Quarterly, Vol. 1 No. 1, Aug
2012 Vividly Mortal and Gruesome, Boston Globe, June 20
2012 Tara Sellios: Of the Flesh, WGBHArts, June 14
2012 Gallery Exhibitions, Boston Globe, May 24
2012 Seven Evil Thoughts and Retribution, Photograph Magazine, May/Jun
2012 Flash Forward and Boston, Art New England, Mar/Apr
2012 Lessons of Impermanence, Lesley University News, Feb 9
2012 Still Lives Served with Lush Gruesomeness, Boston Globe, Jan 4
2011 Seven Emerging Photographers, Art New England, Nov/Dec
2011 Contemporary Photographers: Tara Sellios, Conscientious, October 26 Flak Photo,
2011 Today’s Flak Photo, October 17
2011 Fraction Magazine, Griffin 17, September
2011 Flak Photo, Today’s Flak Photo, June 21
2011 Conversation: Tara Sellios, Boston Photography Focus, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
2010 Direct Objects: Still Life as Subject exhibition catalog
2010 Class Pictures exhibition catalog
2010 Taking In: The Best of AIB Photography exhibition catalog