BIOGRAPHY
Claire Seidl has been an abstract painter for over forty years and a photographer for twenty-five. She grew up in Connecticut and moved to New York City after receiving her BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. She received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York and taught in the art department at Hunter College for a decade. Seidl went on to study photography at the International Center for Photography and then taught in the art department of Hofstra University for five years. She now lives and works in New York City and in Rangeley, Maine.
Seidl exhibits nationally and internationally, has had 40 solo shows, and has participated in over 100 group shows. Some museum and University venues include the Aldrich Museum, Noyes Museum, McNay Art Museum, South Bend Museum, The Baker Museum, Ewing Gallery at University of Tennessee, Murray State University, KY, Haverford College, DePauw University, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russian Museum of Photography, Portland Museum of Art, Ogunquit Museum, Zillman Art Museum at University of Maine, Bates College Museum of Art, University of New England, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Bates College Museum of Art, Mattatuck Museum, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Art in Embassies US Dept. of State.