dark, whimsical, provocative

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Artist Bio

Sel is a multi-disciplined Portland based artist who expresses elation, anguish, and inner power through colorful paintings, dance, community projects, and sculpture. Using paint, fabric, colored pencils, clay, ink, and movement, she creates a world of whimsical horror. She focuses heavily on the queer experience, girl and womanhood, and the inner worlds of dancers. Each of those groups face persecution, over-sexualization, and harsh judgement, and Sel wishes to show the reality, dreams, love, ambition, and struggle. Everything she creates is deeply personal from her own experiences, fantasies, or nightmares. Her work is meant to induce empathy through playful coloring, body horror, and magical whimsy. Deeply dramatic, horrifying, and fun, Sel hopes to leave you with something on your mind, maybe you will find some empathy or find yourself, and a place to relate.

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Current Work

• Portfolio launch

  2026

  A first public-facing collection of Sel Tasteme’s artwork, built to support applications, gallery conversations, commissions, and future exhibitions.

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Opportunities

• Gallery showings

  Sel is open to conversations about group shows, local exhibitions, and opportunities to place her work in front of new audiences.

• Commissions

  Commission conversations are welcome when the project fits the mood, scale, and visual language of the work.