Education
• Undergrad in Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Jawaharlal University, Hyderabad, 1971
• Masters degree from Maharaja Sayaji Rao University in Baroda, India, 1974
• Associate degree in Graphic Arts from Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA 2088
• Certification in Public Art from Public Art Academy in East Bay in January 2010. Ten Selected Solo Shows
• A
temporary exhibition, Art in Embassies, US Department of State, US Embassy Rangoon, Burma.2011-2013
• Shambala Street Place, Berkeley, CA 2011
• Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA 2011
• Kalart Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010
• California Institute of Integral Studies Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009
• Chandler Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007
• ArtJaz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006
• The Hope Horn Gallery, Scranton University, Scranton, PA 2005
• Monsoon Galleries, Bethlehem, PA 2005
• Fayberger Gallery, Penn State University, Reading, PA 2005
• Radford University Art Museum, Radford University, Radford, VA 2005
Held 38 solo shows in the span of 35 years of career in USA and India, Iran, Kuwait and Germany. Selected Group Shows
• Offerings: Town of Danville Art Gallery, Danville, CA 2011
• Visions of Paradise: Art & The Power of Faith at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA 2010
• Picturing the word: The Visuality of Text at Doug Adams Gallery, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA 2010
• The Art Gallery at Cleveland University, Cleveland OH 2010
• Exaltation of the Insignificants: Terra Galleria, Santa Monica, CA 2009
• Beaux & Eros: Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA 2008
• Expanding Circles: Delaware Contemporary Center for Arts, Wilmington, 2007
• Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2007
• Four shows sponsored by Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in State College, Harrisburg, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, PA 2006
• Spring show, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 2005
Awards
• Public sculpture award-Urban Tree 7 –At Port of San Diego in October-2010 -$3000
Public sculpture award-ArtsQuest- Steel Stacks. in Bethlehem PA in April 2011 -10 feet tall -stainless steel. $60,000
First Place, Northeastern Regional Art Show, Marywood University, Scranton, PA in 2004. $750
First Place, Lehigh Art Alliance Annual Show, Bethlehem, PA in 2004-$500
Honorable Mention-Berks Art Alliance Show, Reading Art Museum, Reading, PA in 2001- $100
Honorable Mention-Harrisburg Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA in 2001-$100
Vermont Studio Center: won residency fellowship for two weeks in October 2002
In the summer of 2000 Salma won a (6) week Artist-in-Residence Award. She lived and worked and held exhibition of her works in Swabisch Gumund, southern Germany. Second Prize in Works on Paper, Soho, New York, NY in 1995 -$250
Talks and Presentations
In June of 2011, Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster Germany invited Salma Arastu to read her paper “ Art informed by Spirituality” in their International Symposium: God Loves Beauty: Post Modern Views on Religion and Art. In August of 2011, Commonwealth Club of San Francisco invited her to present her paper on “Sacred Heritage: A blending of Hindu and Islamic Traditions. Lukes Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Counseling and Wellness Center at University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
• The County of Alameda, Oakland, CA
• State Museum of the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
• Museum of Modern Art, Hyderabad, India
• Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad, India
• National Gallery of Art, New Delhi, India
• Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, PA
• Pennsylvania Power & Light, Allentown, PA
• Spring Health Clinic, Bethlehem, PA
• In the US and Canada, more than 200 paintings in private collections. Books and Publications
February 2009 Salma Arastu’s art book “ The Lyrical Line: Embracing All and Flowing” is published by Half Full Press from Oakland California. Her collection of poems “Dard Ki Seedhiyan” (Exploring Steps in the realm of Pain) in Hindi language was published in 1981 with a grant from Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Kala (Literary Arts) Academy, Hyderabad, India. She has been written and her works have been reviewed in more than 45 Newspapers and magazines internationally since 35 years, complete bibliography available upon request.
