Ansen Seale

Ansen Seale (b. 1960, Texas, USA) is an artist based in San Antonio, Texas. His time-based works of photographic art have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and have been collected by corporate, institutional and private collectors. In 2009, he received the Bernard Lifshutz Award in the Visual Arts from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio and his work is in the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas, Austin and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Salta, Argentina.

Seale also works in the field of public art. His 2013 piece entitled, "You Activate This Space" received the International CODA Award for Healthcare Interior.


Seale works with a special digital camera of his own invention. This camera has the ability to capture a vertical slice of the scene over and over in rapid succession, in effect, swapping the horizontal dimension of the photo for the dimension of time. Instead of mirroring the world as we know it, this camera records a hidden reality. The apparent “distortions” in the images all happen in-camera as the image is being recorded.

The surprising visual result of this technique is that unmoving objects are blurred and moving s...

Honors & Awards
Artist of the Year, San Antonio Art League and Museum 2020
Arts and Letters Award, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library 2016
Winner of the CODA Award, CODAworx + InteriorDesign Magazine,      First place: Healthcare Interior 2014
Board of Directors, Artist Foundation of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 2013
US Patent issued No. 8,520,138 B1, Digital Panoramic Camera with Enhanced Image Quality and Improved User Interface, August 27, 2013 2013

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Ansen Seale Retrospective 1977-2020, San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Curated by Luis Purón 2021
The Transient Landscape, Fl!ght Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2016
Ever Wonder, Kirk Hopper Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2014
Ansen Seale - Recent Works, Parchman-Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas 2013
China in Motion, Bismarck Studios, San Antonio, Texas 2012
Luminous Flux, HCG Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2010
Luminous Flux, Bismarck Studios, San Antonio, TX 2010
The Corn Crib, Land Heritage Foundation, San Antonio, TX 2009
Tangible Transience, KettleArt, Dallas, Texas 2007
insectinsight, BlueStar Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas 2006

Collections
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Salta, Argentina
San Antonio Spurs, San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio Water System, San Antonio, Texas
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, San Antonio, Texas
South Texas College, McAllen, Texas
University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
University Health Systems, Robert B. Green Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
Pape-Dawson Engineering, San Antonio, Texas
Frost Bank, San Antonio, Texa...