Joanne Seltzer is an American Artist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Charleston, West Virginia. After having majored in journalism at Northwestern University, where she graduated in 1963, Joanne Seltzer gained her fine arts degree at the University of Michigan. Joanne Seltzer has also attended the New School for Social Research, the Pratt Institute and New York University, where she gained invaluable experience in design, photography, and silkscreen. The Artwork of Joanne Seltzer is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Joanne Seltzer has showed at the European Galleries Secret Garden - Monique Collection, and The Center for Engraving and Printed Image of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, in La Louvière, Brussels along with other Contemporary Artists such as Jean Tinguely, Francois Morellet, Georg Baselitz, Berto Lardera, Bengt Linström, Paolo Paolini, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Michel Seuphor, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tàpies, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, and others.

Joanne Seltzer has also lectured at several institutions, including the school of Visual Arts in New York, the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa. Ms. Seltzer’s works are realistic constructions which are sometimes serial in nature. These collages and photo-montages are influenced by the artist’s childhood; therefore, they are somewhat nostalgic, but are not sentimentalized. Each image has a dose of hard reality: for example in or Gallery the depiction of the artist as a young girl dancing is superimposed upon the checks her father wrote for her lessons.