BEATRIX SALCHER (*1968)
 
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Vitae
   
2004 - present Visual artist in Santa Barbara (USA) and Leiden (NL)
2004 - 2008 Web designer/ illustrator at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
1998 - 2004 Visual artist in Innsbruck (A)
2002 - 2004 Fashion design teacher at the HBLA, Innsbruck (A)
2000 - 2001 Visual artist in Oxford (GB)
1992- 1997 Visual artist in Duisburg (G)
1995 Guest artist in Scuol (CH)
1990- 1991 Fashion illustrator for Michel Schreiber, Paris (F)
1987- 1988 Fashion designer/illustrator at Vicky Mora, Tyrol (A)
   
Education
   
2000 - 2001 Web design education at the WIFI, Innsbruck (A)
1989- 1991 Art studies at the Ateliers Beaux Arts , Paris (F)
1982- 1987 Fashion design/art studies at the Modeschule der Stadt Wien im Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna (A)

Awards - fellowships

2008 Art Award, "Views & Visions: The Shoe", Westmont College (USA)
2003 "Förderpreis des Landes Tirol für Bildende Kunst 2002" (Scholarship for Fine Arts 2002 given by the Federal state Tyrol), Innsbruck, (A)
2000 Shortlist, "Sciart" with the project "Quantum Art", (with Prof. D.Bouwmeester), London (UK), (www.sciart.org and catalog)
1999 Art Award, "Kunst und Bau" ("Art and Architecture"), University of Innsbruck, (A)
1996 Art Scholarship "W.A. Mozart prize", J. W. v. Goethe Foundation, Bâle (CH)
1996 Art Fellowship, Austrian Artist Association Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck (A)
1995 Art Scholarship, "BINZ 39", Foundation Binz, Zürich (CH)

Selected exhibitions
   
2011
"5x5- An invitational", Westmont Museum of Art (USA)
2010
"Views & Visions: Travellers", Reynolds Gallery (USA)
2008
"Views & Visions: The Shoe", Reynolds Gallery (USA)
2003 "Kraftwerk peripher", TIWAG, Hydropower plant Imst (A), (catalog)
2003 "IN SANGUINE VITA ET MORS", Faculty of Theology, University of Innsbruck (A)
2002 "14 ways to sleep", Nothburga Gallery, Innsbruck (A)
2001 "quantum teleportation", (with Prof. D.Bouwmeester), Science Museum, London (UK)
2000 "tirol.2000", Faculty of Art History, Innsbruck (A)
1999 "Zeitenwende Zeitenende", Convent of Wilten, Innsbruck (A), (catalog)
1998 "Blick in die Natur²", Faculty of Art History, Innsbruck ( (A)
1998 "collezione tirolo", Complesso Monumentale del S.Michele a Ripa, Rome (I), (art video und catalog)
1998 "Tirol Direct Madrid", MEC, Sala Millares, Madrid (SP), (catalog)
1996 "EUROPAS WEGE", Land (and) Art in 10 European countries
1995 INN", Annual Exhibition of the Province of Tyrol, Convent of Stams (A) (catalog)
1994 "licht und schatten", Academy of Music Remscheid (G), (catalog)
Premiere of 7 music compositions made for the exhibition
1993 "DAS FRAUENZIMMER", Andechshof Gallery, Innsbruck (A), (catalog)
1993 "fest am Boden", Boden 4, Wörgl (A), (catalog)
1992 "Art in Tyrol in the 20th century", University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck (A), (catalog)
1991 "BeziehungSweise Zärtlichkeit", Museum Grünes Haus, Reutte (A), (catalog)

Works in public collections

Kunstankäufe des Bundes, Artothek des Bundes (National Art Collection of Austria)
Kunstankäufe des Landes Tirol (Federal State Art Collection of Tyrol)
Sammlung der Stadt Innsbruck (Municipal Art Collection of Innsbruck)