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

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

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 a 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