Tara Sellios

Tara Sellios is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in large format photography and also in drawing, sculpture and installation. She graduated from The Art Institute of Boston in 2010 with a BFA in photography and art history. Recent solo exhibitions include Infernalis at Gallery Kayafas (Boston, MA), Sinuous at C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD) and Testimony at Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR). Her work has been included in several group exhibitions locally and internationally, the most recent being inclusion in Photo Brussels Festival (Brussels, Belgium). She is a multiple Massachusetts Cultural Council Award Fellow and has appeared on the cover of Photograph magazine and Art New England, amongst others. Her work is part of several permanent collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Danforth Museum and the RISD Museum. She currently lives and works in her South Boston studio.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

- Infernalis, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

2017

- Sinuous, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD  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

- Massachusetts College of Art and Design 29th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA

2018

- IN VIVO, Noorderlicht House of Photography Festival, Belvedere, Heerenveen, Netherlands

- Massachusetts College of Art and Design 29th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA

2017

- We Dream | Beauty Beyond and Beneath, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA

- Spark, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA

- Stare! (curated by Karen Haas of MFA Boston), Boston City Hall, Boston, MA

- Massachusetts College of Art and Design 28th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA

2016

- Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA

- 15th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University

2015

- Discomfort Food, SNHU McIninch Art Gallery, Manchester, NH ARTcetera Art Auction, Boston, MA

2013

- Massachusetts College of Art and Design 26th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA

- Comestibles, Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College, Boston, MA

- ARTcetera Art Auction, Boston, MA

Consumed: Nourishment & Indulgence, Willard Wankelman Gallery, Bowling Green, OH
Still Life Lives!, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

- Boston-Como: More than an Art Exchange, Como, ItalyExposure 2013: 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Photographic

- Resource Center, Boston, MA

- Party for the Park Auction, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

- Massachusetts College of Art and Design 24th Annual Benefit Auction, Boston, MA Alumni

- Invitational Exhibition, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

- Upsodown, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA

- Consuming Passion: Food as Metaphor in Art, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

- Cruel Sea: Law of Fishes, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

- Days of Plenty, JDC Fine Art, San Diego, CA

- The Art of Photography Show, Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego, CA

- 17th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

- Of Gods and Monsters, Curator’s Selection, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, with guest curator Andrew Mroczek,   Boston, MA

- Direct Objects: Still Life as Subject, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, VT

- Class Pictures, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY

- Taking In: The Best of AIB Photography, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA BFA Exhibition, Main

- Gallery at The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

- On Life and Death, Porter Exchange Gallery, Cambridge, MA

PERMANENT COLLECTION

- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

- Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA

- RISD Museum, Providence, RI

I strive to create images that elegantly articulate the totality of existence, focusing heavily life’s underlying instinctive, carnal nature in the face of fragility and impermanence. The concept of morality in relation to mortality has possessed a significant presence within the history of art, ranging from altarpieces to the work of the Dutch vanitas painters. Manifesting melancholic, seemingly damning themes with beauty and precision, as these artists did, results in an image that is seductive, forcing the viewer to look, despite its apparent grotesque and morbid nature. Through these images, I aspire to make apparent the restlessness of a life that is knowingly so temporary and vulnerable.