1990年生于纽约哈林区，生活工作于纽约哈德逊河谷地区。她通过结合绘画及版画技法形成独特的个人风格，探索有关黑人身体的诸多概念。她使用缝纫、印刷及绘画材料创作以女性为主的人物形象，作品跨越多个艺术风格流派及手工艺传统。
塞尔弗创作的形式及观念方面均旨在拓展其对自我及人类现状的批判研究工作。近期个展及群展曾于以下机构呈现：埃斯波现代艺术博物馆，芬兰（2024）；高线公园，纽约（2024）；布鲁克林美术馆，纽约（2024）；FLAG基金会，纽约（2024）；巴比肯艺术中心，伦敦（2024）；斯托比克文化中心，比利时（2023）；Desert X，科切拉峡谷，美国（2023）；圣加仑美术馆，瑞士（2023）；Le Consortium美术馆，第戎（2022）；Performa双年展，纽约（2021）；艺术之家美术馆，慕尼黑（2021）；杜塞尔多夫美术馆，杜塞尔多夫（2021）；巴尔的摩美术馆，巴尔的摩（2021）；波士顿当代艺术中心（2020）“Studio Museum Artists in Residence”，MoMA PS1，纽约（2019）；汉默美术馆，洛杉矶（2019）；佛莱伊艺术博物馆，西雅图（2019）。
Born in 1990 Harlem, New York, lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York. She builds a singular style from the syncretic use of both painting and printmaking to explore ideas about the black body. She constructs depictions of predominantly female bodies using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions. The formal and conceptual aspects of Self's work seek to expand her critical inquiry into selfhood and human flourishing.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo (2024); Highline, New York (2024); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2024); FLAG Foundation, New York (2024); Barbican, London (2024); CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium (2023); Desert X, Coachella Valley (2023); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2023); Le Consortium, Dijon (2022); Performa 2021 Biennial, New York (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2021); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2021); ICA, Boston (2020); Studio Museum Artists in Residence, MoMA PS1, New York (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2019), amongst many others.
