Selma bortner biography

Selma Bortner

Major Solo Exhibitions
Philadelphia Transmit Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1968
Robert Prizefighter Gallery, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1971
Newark Congregation, Newark, Delaware, 1972, 1974
Abington Flow Center, Abington, Pennsylvania, 1973
Hauska Council house, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1973
Old York Instruct Guild, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1973
Old Borough Gallery, New Brunswick, New Milker, 1974
The Philadelphia Bicentennial Commission, Metropolis, Pennsylvania, 1976
Rider College Art Veranda, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, 1979
Wallnuts Verandah, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980
Four Corners Onlookers, Lambertville, New Jersey, 1990
The Comprehensive Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990
Twenty Leash Year Retrospective,
Hicks Gallery, Reserve County Community College, Newtown, Penn, 1991
Selma Bortner: Body of Work
, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, University, 2004-2005
Selma Bortner: The Journey, Writer Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2020

Major Group Exhibitions
Philadelphia Watercolor Club Touch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970
American Color Gallop Society, International Traveling Show, 1970-1971
Pratt Institute International, Miniature Print Rivalry Traveling Show, 1972-1973
Philadelphia Watercolor Sing together, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1975
Artists Equity Tercentenary Traveling Show, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1978-1979
The Smidge Club International, The Netherlands, 1980
Print and Drawing National, North Sioux University, North Dakota, 1981
National Line and Drawings
, West Chester Set down College, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1982
Philadelphia Print Club, Traveling Small Typography Show, France and England, 1982
New Jersey Printmaking Council, Juried Flaunt, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
Philadelphia Painting Club, Graphics First Prize, City, Pennsylvania, 1987
Phillips' Mill Annual Stick down Exhibition, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1986, 1991, 1997, 2001
Bucks Twoyear 1
, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1992
International Color Print Population, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995
Bucks County Invitational 1, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1997
A Legacy Preserved: Greatness First Decade of Collecting equal height the Michener Museum, Michener Withdraw Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1998
Art Speaks: Celebrating the Bucks County Inner Unit Collection, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2010-2011
Parting Gifts: Artists Honor Bruce Katsiff,Director/CEO, 1989-2012, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2012

Major Collections
Atlantic Richfield Oil Company
Armstrong Fasten Corporation
Film Corporation of America
Illinois Set down University, Normal, Illinois
Manchester College Museum, Manchester, Massachusetts
Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Mills College, Oakland, California
Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection
Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Psychiatric Institute
Reading Happy Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
Rutgers University, Additional Brunswick, New Jersey
Rowan Speak College, Glassboro, New Jersey
San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
Tucson Public Schools, Metropolis, Arizona
University of Minnesota, University Verandah, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wharton School and Decree School, University of Pennsylvania, Metropolis, Pennsylvania