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Rose Sellery (b. 1955, USA)
rose@rosesellery.com
831.227.1149

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Solo Exhibitions

 

2019, Rose Sellery: Telling Tales, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2019, S.F. International Art Salon Featured Artist: Rose Sellery, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

2018, Multiple Personalities, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

2016, View from the Other Side, Baswait/Greene, Los Angeles, CA

2014, Passages: A Modern Fairy Tale  Monterey Peninsula College Gallery, Monterey, CA

2012, Passages, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2012, Rose Sellery: Broken Dreams, Campbell Gallery, Carmel, CA
 

Selected Exhibitions

2018, Museum of Curious, Perceptions, PVA Gallery, Watsonville, CA

2017, Fragile Blue Marble, Artik, San Jose, CA

2017, Out of the Ordinary, Artik, San Jose, CA

2017, A Figurative Affair, Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2016, My Hero!, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2016, Simple Life Instructions: DADA. Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2016, Feminist Variations. The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

2016, Anne & Mark’s Art Party, San Jose, CA

2015, SHOEting Stars-Senses in Shoes. Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, Austria

2015, Femme Void, Paris, France

2014, Virtual Shoe Museum, www.virtualshoemuseum.com

2014, Anne & Mark’s Art Party, Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

2014, UnDressed: An Exposé of Narrative Garments and Accessories . Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz, CA

2013, Yuma Art Symposium Presenter’s Exhibition, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ

2012, Outfitters: The Contemporary Art of Clothing, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2009-2012, World of Wearable Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
 

Fashion Shows & Fashion Exhibitions

2019, Pivot: The Art of Fashion, Rio Theatre Santa Cruz, CA

2019: SFIAS presents Pivot: The Art of Fashion, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

2018: Pivot presents: Hall of Fashion, Old Wrigley Building, Santa Cruz, CA

2017, Pivot: The Art of Fashion presents Hall of Fashion – Wrigley Building, Santa Cruz, CA

2016, Anne & Mark’s Art Party – Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

2016, The Art of Fashion – Armory, San Jose, CA

2015, Pivot: The Art of Fashion – Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA

2015, Pivot: The Art of Fashion – California State Parks, Santa Cruz, CA

2015, Uncommon Threads – Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2015, Fashion and Digital Art – Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

2015, Counter Culture – Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2015, Radical Craft: Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2014, Anne & Mark’s Art Party – Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

2014, UnDressed: An Exposé of Conceptual Garments and Accessories -
Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz & PVAC Gallery, Watsonville, CA

2014, Paint to Wear – Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

2006 – 2014, FashionART Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA

2007 – 2014, FashionART Santa Cruz exhibition, Michelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2013, Outfitter’s Fashion Show – Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

Runway Show – Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2009-2012, World of Wearable Art – Auckland, New Zealand

2009, Love Art Lab: Purple Wedding – Farnsworth Park Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA

2008, Love Art Lab: Green Wedding – The Glen, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA

2008 Re-Do Fashion Show – Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA

 

Publications

 

The Creatives Among Us, Wallace Baine and Shmuel Thaler

Catamaran Literary Reader, Vol. 2 Issue 3

Artillery Magazine by Jodi Throckmorton

The Cruz by Kirby Scudder

Art as Fashion – Rose Sellery  Santa Cruz Good Times (cover story)

Outfitters: The Contemporary Art of Clothing – Diablo Arts Magazine (cover)

Honoring Women's Rights: Echoing Visual Voices Together by Women's Caucus for Art

MetropoLOVE by Karen Kuehn

500 Bracelets published by Lark Books

Metal Inclinations: Exhibition in Print published by SNAG
 

Curatorial Projects

 

2018, Museum of Curious Perceptions, PVA Gallery, Watsonville, CA

2017, Pivot presents: Hall of Fashion, Wrigley Building, Santa Cruz, CA

2016, Pivot – Anne & Mark’s Art Party, San Jose CA

2016, The Creatives Among Us – Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA

2015, Uncommon Threads – Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2015, Material Illusions – Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA

2015, Pivot for the Friends of State Parks Santa Cruz, CA

2014, UnDressed: An Exposé of Narrative Garments and Accessories

SCICA, Santa Cruz, CA & PVA, Watsonville, CA

2014, Sam Hernandez – Focus on the Object / Selections: Two Decades

2013, Presenter – Yuma Art Symposium, Yuma Historical Theater, Yuma, AZ

 

Awards and Grants

 

2020 SVCreates Art Party Relief Fund

Belle Foundation Grant

Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Nominee 2017

Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County Grant

Briar Hess Award

Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Nominee 2015

Mix it Up / Mixed Media National Exhibit (First Place)

Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Nominee 2013

Arts Council Santa Cruz County Grant

Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Nominee 2011

Arts Council Santa Cruz County Grant

Gail Rich Award

Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Nominee 2009

Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Nominee 2007

Essential Element Pacific Grove Art Center (Best of Show)

Site Specific: Jewelry from The Metal Arts Guild Oakland Museum (Best of Show)

Imaginations in Metal Oakland Museum (Best of Show)

Ninth Annual Metal Arts Fair (Best of show)
 

Work Experience

 

Program Coordinator, Cabrillo Gallery – 17 years

 Rose Sellery Jewelry Design – 5 years

Fine Art Woodwork – 6 years

Michael Lambert Ceramics – 2 years

Earthgender Architectural Ceramics – 12 years
 

Related Experience

 

FashionART Santa Cruz, Artist & Exhibition Coordinator, 2006 – 2014

Anne and Mark’s Art Party, 2010 – Present

CabrilloARTS (academic art workshops) – Cabrillo College, 2007 – 2013: member of Workshop Selection committee, group workshop coordinator, graphic design, documentary photographer

Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild – president (2 yrs), exhibition coordinator (3 yrs)

Yuma Art Symposium – board member (4 years)

Cabrillo College Arts Entrepreneur mentor