Joanne Seltzer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Charleston, West Virginia. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1963 before gaining her fine arts degree at the University of Michigan. In Addition, Ms. Seltzer has lectured at several institutions, including the school of Visual Arts in New York, the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa. she is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art and has showed at Un jardin secret - Collection Monique Dorsel et Emile Lanc - Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière along with 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 Ms. Seltzer's works are realistic constructions which are sometimes serial in nature. These collages and photomontages 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 a depiction of the young artist dancing is superimposed upon the checks her father wrote for her lessons.
