Collections
San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas |
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Salta, Argentina |
San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio, Texas |
San Antonio Water System, San Antonio, Texas |
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, San Antonio, Texas |
South Texas College, McAllen, Texas |
University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China |
University Health Systems, Robert B. Green Hospital, San Antonio, Texas |
Pape-Dawson Engineering, San Antonio, Texas |
Frost Bank, San Antonio, Texas |
University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas |
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas |
Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas |
City of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas |
Honors & Awards
Artist of the Year, San Antonio Art League and Museum | 2020 |
Arts and Letters Award, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library | 2016 |
Winner of the CODA Award, CODAworx + InteriorDesign Magazine, First place: Healthcare Interior | 2014 |
Board of Directors, Artist Foundation of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas | 2013 |
US Patent No. 8,520,138 B1, Digital Panoramic Camera with Enhanced Image Quality and Improved User Interface | 2013 |
Vice President, Board of Directors, Luminaria, San Antonio | 2011-2015 |
LHI/FotoSeptiembre Grant, Land Heritage Institute / FotoSeptiembreUSA, $3,000 | 2009 |
Board of Directors, Alamo Height Rotary Club, San Antonio, Texas | 2009 |
Bernard Lifschutz Award in the Visual Arts, Artist Foundation of San Antonio, $5000 | 2009 |
Individual Grant (for the Corn Crib project), Puffin Foundation, $800 | 2009 |
Artist Residency, Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt, Munich | 2009 |
Cover, "Art at Our Doorstep", Trinity University Press | 2008 |
Selected for exchange exhibition, Tenerife, Canary Islands Arts Council, FotoNoviembre | 2007 |
Selected for New American Talent 22 Exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, Texas | 2007 |
Cover article, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas | 2006 |
Solo Exhibitions
Rising Tide, Shifting Sand, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas, Curated by Catey Arnold, Luis Purón |
2024 |
Ansen Seale Retrospective 1977-2020, San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Luis Purón |
2021 |
The Transient Landscape, Overland Partners, San Antonio, Texas |
2020 |
The Transient Landscape, Fl!ght Gallery, San Antonio, TX |
2016 |
Ever Wonder, Kirk Hopper Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
2014 |
Ansen Seale - Recent Works, Parchman-Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
2013 |
China in Motion, Bismarck Studios, San Antonio, Texas |
2012 |
Luminous Flux, HCG Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
2010 |
Luminous Flux, Bismarck Studios, San Antonio, TX |
2010 |
The Corn Crib, Land Heritage Foundation, San Antonio, TX |
2009 |
Tangible Transience, KettleArt, Dallas, Texas |
2007 |
Ansen Seale, South Texas College Library, McAllen, Texas |
2006 |
insectinsight, BlueStar Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas |
2006 |
Bloodlines, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas |
2006 |
seen/unseen, Photography 414 Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas |
2005 |
Temporal Form, Paisano Gallery, Marfa, Texas |
2004 |
It’s About Time: dimensional exchange and other non-apparent realities, Photography As Art Gallery, Mason, Texas |
2004 |
Flux & Flow, Three Walls Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
2003 |
Circumference: A Panoramic View of San Antonio Architecture, San Antonio Int'l Airport, San Antonio, Texas |
2002 |
Deconstruction and the Art of Industry, Trinity University Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
1991 |
Ansen Seale, 1980-1990, Blaire Carnahan Fine Art, San Antonio, Texas |
1990 |
Ansen Seale, McAllen Civic Center, MCallen, Texas |
1990 |
Art Gives Us Wings:Photographs from the Bexar County Jail, Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, Texas |
1990 |
Art of the Etruscans, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana |
1988 |
Contemporary Color, Huey's Restaurant, San Antonio, Texas |
1987 |
21 Squares, McAllen State Bank, McAllen, Texas |
1986 |
Senior Exhibition: Photographs, Sculpture, Lithographs, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Bill Bristow |
1983 |
Photographic Qualities, Trinity University Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
1982 |
Photographs and Photographics, Trinity University Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
1981 |
Group Exhibitions
Art in the Making: From Idea to Object, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Lyle Williams, René Barilleaux |
2024 |
Re-Purpose, Soho House, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Curated by Be Contemporary Gallery - Urla |
2021 |
Common Currents, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas |
2018 |
LIFT: An Exhibition of Kites, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Stuart Allen |
2017 |
Transmission, BlueStar Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
2015 |
Flatland, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX, Curated by Patty Ortiz |
2014 |
Infinite Horizons: Visions of Texas, 14th Annual China Int'l Photographic Art Exhibition, Lishui, Zhezhiang, China, Curated by Arturo Almeida, Rex Hausmann |
2011 |
John Philip Evett-Ansen Seale: Fractured Form, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
2009 |
(Un)Natural Worlds, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas, Curated by John Aasp |
2009 |
Waterflow, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by David Rubin |
2009 |
Luminaria, San Antonio Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas |
2009 |
Viewfinder: New Images from Texas Artists, Houston Center for Photography/FotoFest, Curated by Wendy Watriss |
2008 |
DigitalArt.LA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California |
2008 |
Playing with Time, BlueStar Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas |
2008 |
Postmodern Primitives (curator), HCG Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Curated by Ansen Seale |
2008 |
Transacciones, Tenerife Museum, Tenerife, Canary Islands |
2007 |
New American Talent:22, arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas, Curated by Anne Ellegood, Hirshhorn Museum |
2007 |
Con Otros Ojos, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2007 |
SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston Convention Center, Boston, MA |
2006 |
PHOTO?, Shores Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2003 |
Millennium, San Antonio Airport, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Michael Mehl |
1999 |
Flight-A point of Departure, San Antonio Airport, San Antonio, Texas |
1995 |
Faculty Art Exhibit, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas |
1993 |
SAPO One, Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, Texas |
1991 |
The Road Show, Streets of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Phil Simpson |
1991 |
Nueva Street, Nueva Street Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
1990 |
Views on Contemporary Art, Thomposn/Marince Agency, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Pat Marince |
1990 |
Blue Star IV, BlueStar Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
1989 |
Colors, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas |
1989 |
Spatial Points of View, Thomposn/Marince Agency, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Pat Marince |
1989 |
Photographers Six, Moss-Chumley Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
1988 |
Yard Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas |
1987 |
Still Lives, Creative Alternatives, San Antonio, Texas |
1987 |
Black Is the Color, Moss-Chumley Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
1987 |
SAMA Open / 86, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas |
1986 |
Public Art Commissions
On The Appreciation of Species, Lobby of a Life Sciences company, Madison, Wisconsin, $150,000 |
2021 |
The Persistence of Life, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, $75,000 |
2019 |
Luminous Creek Urchins, San Pedro Culture Park, San Antonio, TX, $15,000 |
2019 |
Blue By You, HEB Store, Bellaire (Houston), Texas, $85,000 |
2018 |
Glowing Waters, San Pedro Culture Park, San Antonio, Texas, $35,000 |
2018 |
The People's Time, Charles Schwab Regional Office, Austin, Texas, $175,000 |
2018 |
Tricentennial Clock, Historic structure, San Antonio, Texas, $20,000 |
2018 |
Nebraska Time, Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska, $37,000 |
2017 |
We're Good, Right Here, AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas, $120,000 |
2015 |
Time Is Money, Frost Bank, One Frost, San Antonio, Texas, $42,500 |
2015 |
You Activate This Space, University Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, $200,000 |
2014 |
Morris Williams Jr, Municipal Golf Course, Austin, Texas, $35,000 |
2013 |
Trinity University, Public Art Collection, San Antonio, Texas, $14,000 |
2013 |
Lila Cockrell Theater, San Antonio Convention Center, San Antonio, TX, $150,000 |
2010 |
Native Plants of San Antonio, San Antonio Int'l Airport, San Antonio, TX, $5,000 |
2010 |
The Corn Crib, Land Heritage Institute, San Antonio, TX, $4,000 |
2009 |
Panther Cave Mural, Amistad Nat'l Recreation Area, Del Rio, Texas, $5,000 |
2009 |
Publications
Diana Roberts, Featured Artist, cover image, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Vol. 2 , 2005, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, USA, 263 pgs. |
Walt Zing, X and Time: a dimensional exchange, Voices of Art, Vol. 10 , Ed. 2, 2002, 21 pgs. |
Chris Dickie, Time and Motion Studies, Ag Magazine, The International Journal of Photographic Art and Practice, Vol. 35 , 2004, London, UK, 56-57 pgs. |
Ansen Seale, Direct Art, Vol. 16 , 2009, Tom Slowinski/SlowArt Productions, 30-31 pgs. |
Wendy Weil Atwell, Ansen Seale:Bloodlines, Artl!es, Vol. 52 , 2006, Artl!es, Houston, Texas, 106 pgs. |
Gene Elder, View of Reality from a Chartreuse Couch, Voices of Art, Vol. 17 , Ed. 1, 2010, San Antonio, Texas, 12-13 pgs. |
Bob Bradley, Through the Eye of the Lens, Voices of Art, Vol. 13 , Ed. 1, 2004, San Antonio, Texas, 14-15 pgs. |
Robert Klanten, Gestalten Books, Doppelgänger-Images of the Human Being , 2011, Gestalten Books, Berlin, Germany, 150-151 pgs. |
Gene Elder, A View of Reality from the Chartreuse Couch, Out in SA , Ed. Winter, 2017, Euclid Media, San Antonio, TX, United States, 88-91 pgs. |
Postcard Series, Temporal Form no. 5 - Uncertainty, 2004, New Photodynamism , 2016, New Photodynamism, Brussel, Belgium pgs. |
Jeanna Goodrich Balreira, ARTrepreneurship, Trinity: The Magazine of Trinity University , Ed. Winter, 2017, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, United States, 42-43 pgs. |
Ansen Seale, Convention (Photograph), Oxford American, Spring 2017 , Ed. Spring, 2017, The Oxford American Literary Project, Inc., Little Rock, AR, United States, 5 pgs. |
David S. Rubin, Ansen Seale’s Explorations of Motion, Time, and Timelessness, Glasstire, Vol. May 25, 20 , Ed. http://glasstire.com/2015/05/24/ansen-seales-explo, 2015 pgs. |
Education
Trinity University, BA | 1983 |
McAllen High School | 1979 |