b. 1971, Germany Lives and works in New York City Education 1999-2002 Hunter College, New York City, USA (MFA) 1995 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 1992-1997 Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Master) Solo Exhibitions 2008 "Taina . cosmogeny . make your own paper dragon," Derek Eller Gallery, New York 2007 Galerie Schlag, Essen, Germany 2006 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (project room) 2005 “A Supernatural, Circular Time,” Galerie Kunstraum Sutter-Kress, Erlangen, Germany 2004 “Armor and Etiquette,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (project room) 2003 "How do you like: The World is dreaming you", Galerie Kollmeier,Essen, Germany 2001 "Lulu", Galerie Kollmeier, Essen, Germany 2000 "Neue Malerei", Galerie Kollmeier, Essen, Germany 1996 "Sleeping Beauty, Looking at the Stars, Praying for Protection", Galerie Fruchtig, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Selected Group Shows 2009 "Figuratively Seeing," Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA "Drawn," Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA 2008 "Tales of Wonder and Woe: Fairy Tales and Contemporary Art," Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY "My Generation, " Kunsverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany "Jahrgang Rausch, atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany "The Golden Record," The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK "Summer Group Exhibition," Derek Eller Gallery, New York “Forms of Figuration,” Clifford Chance, New York, NY 2007 "Betonwurst und andere Tamgeister" ("After the Butcher"), Berlin, Germany 2006 "Flicker", University Art Museum, Albany, NY, USA 2005 "Hello Sunday", Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY, USA "Arbeiten auf Papier" ("Works on Paper"), Villa Griesebach Gallery, Berlin, Germany “Honeymooon with Romeo,” Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland “Lolita,” AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA “Remastered,” Diesel, San Francisco, USA “Hope Auction,” Gavin Brown Passerby, New York, NY, USA “Pretend Friendly,” curated by Alfredo Martinez, The Artist Network, New York, NY, USA 2004 “Under the Sun”, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario 2003 "Drawings", Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2003 "Girls Gone Wild", cur. by Katherine Bernhardt, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC, USA 2002 "Summer 2002", Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2001 American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA 2000 "Na'er Do Wells", DNA-Studios, New York, NY, USA "Meisterschüler", Kulturverein Hirschberg, Germany "Bi-Virtue", Star 67, Brooklyn, NY, USA 1999 "Formula", ONI Gallery, Boston, MA, USA 1998 "A Skowhegan Decade", David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA "Black Hole", Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1997 "Polymorph", Rathaus Rüsselsheim, Germany "Optimiste", curated by Ken Lum, Carreau des Arts Cérgy, Paris, France 1996 "Klubhaus", Allianz-Versicherung, cur. by Kasper König, Frankfurt/M., Germany Bibliography 2009 Neyenesch, Cassandra. "Bettina Sellmann: Taina . cosmogeny . make you own paper dragon," The Brooklyn Rail, Dec - Jan 2008 Schütte, Christophe. "Neuer Leuchtturm für die Kunst," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, Sept 3, “New American Paintings, #74,” The Open Studio Press, USA, February Ribas, João "Forms of Figuration," Dinaburg Arts and Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, USA (Brochure) 2007 Dittmann, Christoph. "Menschen und Tiere," Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, Feb 6, 2007 2006 “Remastered”, curated by Sebastien Agneessens, Die Gestalten Velag, Berlin, Germany Ripps-Schaming, Corina. "Flicker," University Art Museum, Albany, New York, Sept. (Exhib. Brochure) 2005 Jauslin, Kurt. “Gesichter in der Zeitschleife,” Nürnberger Nachrichten, Germany, March Jauslin, Kurt. “Wiedergänger aus der Vergangheit,” Erlanger Nachrichten, Germany, March “”Bettina Sellmann at Derek Eller Gallery,” Sarah Jorgensen, The New York Art World, NYC, USA 2004 Coverpage of the Literary Review, Madison, NJ, USA, January-March 2003 Smith, Roberta. "Girls Gone Wild," The New York Times, Art in Review, July 4 Wolf, Christof. "Wenn die Traumwelt zerrinnt," Neue Ruhr Zeitung, Essen, Germany, June 25 "Moderne Zeiten: Die Kunst…Kopf", Michael Kohlstadt, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, June 28 "Vergängliche Machtstrukturen", Deike Steineshoff, Westdt. Allgemeine Zeitung-Werden, Germany, June 24 "Bettina Sellmann bei Kollmeier", Werdener Nachrichten, Germany, June 19 Pietsch, Hans. "Spielplatz der starken Mädchen," art nr.4, p. 42, Germany, April 2002 "Mädchen, Mädchen", Magdalena Kröner, Feuilleton, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany, August 12 Schroder, Frank. "Lulu - Trying to resolve reality", NY-Arts Magazine, January 2001 "Wenn das Perfekte zerbricht", Deike Steineshoff, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, October "Hysterische Momente", Werdener Nachrichten, Germany, October "Die junge Kunst...", Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Essen, Germany, October 2000 Greenberg, David. "We live in Public", Luvvyplex-Art Newsletter, NY, Sept. "Frankfurter Meisterschüler stellen aus", Weinheimer Nachrichten, Germany, May "Meisterschüler stellen aus", Weinheimer Nachrichten, Germany, May "Pfiffiges und Buntes", Werdener Tageszeitung, Germany, March Pasquini, Stefano. "Man Ray... and others", NY-Arts Magazine, March 1999 "Strong Groupshows in Boston and Cambridge", Boston Globe, Boston, MA, USA, December 1998 "HTV de Ijsberg", Kunstvlaai-Newspaper, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1997 "Polymorph", Kulturamt Rüsselsheim, Germany, (Folder) "Seid umschlungen Embryonen", Elfriede Schmidt, Rüsselsheimer Echo, Rüsselsheim, Germany, September "Vertrautes in fremder Form", Tanja Zech, Mainspitze, Rüsselsheim, Germany, September "Optimiste", École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, (Catalogue) "Oragiri", Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany, (Catalogue) 1996 "Klubhaus", Allianz-Versicherung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (Catalogue) "Schneemann in der Damendusche", Sandra Danicke, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, November Awards 1999-2000 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - Year Stipend for New York 1997 Skowhegan Summer Residency Program, Maine, USA 1995 Erasmus Stipend for Paris Public Collections Museum of Modern Art, NY Go to top