24 Facts About Zachary Selig

Zachary Selig was an American artist, author, interior designer and celebrity spiritist.

Zachary Selig was born in Seguin, Texas, and later lived with his mother's family in the Hudson River Valley and in Manhattan.

Zachary Selig died of heart failure in 2016 after dinner and enjoying the company of dear friends in Mexico City.

Zachary Selig had been residing in San Miguel de Allende in his adopted home of Mexico.

Zachary Selig was tutored in drawing and oil painting from the age of 5 in Texas, and spoke fluent Spanish by age 12.

Zachary Selig began his esoteric anthropological studies in Mesoamerican Anthropology at the age of 16 at the University of the Americas in Mexico City, Mexico with German professor Baron Alexander von Wuthenau, who wrote 5 books on the racial origins of man in Mesoamerica.

Zachary Selig then studied at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky and at the University of Houston, the Parsons School of Design, the Art Students League of New York, the New York School of Interior Design and oil painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Zachary Selig was an apprentice of Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg, who uses Tantras and Mesoamerican cultural references in his works of art.

Zachary Selig made commissioned portraits and works of art for Isabel Goldsmith-Patino, eldest daughter of Sir James Goldsmith and granddaughter of Antenor Patino, Prince Egon von Furstenberg, Catherine Oxenberg and Kelly Le Brock, among others.

Exhibitions featuring Zachary Selig's paintings include "100th Anniversary of Hollywood - Portraits of the Stars" held at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and "Organic Landscapes" sponsored by Versace in Beverly Hills.

Zachary Selig helped launch Hemingway's career in the 1970s, and established the initial marketing and public relations format that helped make her a global celebrity, introducing Hemingway to a circle of fashion professionals in New York City that included photographer Francesco Scavullo, designer Halston, Vogue editor Francis Stein and Marian McEvoy, a fashion editor for Women's Wear Daily.

Zachary Selig was the consultant of paranormal phenomena for director Tobe Hooper and the production of Spontaneous Combustion, a film about psychokinetic powers.

Zachary Selig performed an Afro-Cuban spiritual cleansing ritual in the 2013 documentary A Journey to Planet Sanity, a film about psychics and the paranormal.

In 1977, Zachary Selig worked in fashion design and created the MU clothing collection in Mexico City, which was produced by artisans in Zihuatanejo.

Zachary Selig specialized in Sekhem, utilizing an 8,000-year-old pre-dynastic Egyptian Neteru design theurgy with classical and modern design elements in the art of interior design harmonics.

Zachary Selig contributed to Maureen Orth's book Vulgar Favors about the death of Gianni Versace.

Zachary Selig had a home in Miami Beach, Florida, from 1996 to 2004, and was associated with Versace's circle of friends, spending the Sunday before Versace's death with him and a group on the 11th Street Beach in South Beach.

Zachary Selig's artwork was represented by Friedeberg Fine Arts in the USA, France, United Kingdom and Mexico.

Zachary Selig's artwork was included in Friedeberg's 2014 Manos por Mexico exhibition at the Franz Mayer Museum, where it drew over 18,000 visitors; it was later exhibited at the Pinacoteca de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey.

In 2014, a portrait painted by Zachary Selig was featured in the exhibition Joan Quinn Captured at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, California.

Zachary Selig's art was inspired and influenced by Mexican culture, along with Meso-American magical talisman symbols and mysticism, as were his European mentors who were Mexican expatriate Surrealists.

Zachary Selig painted with an oil paint medium and used an easel.

Friedeberg guided Zachary Selig's perspective drawing and use of magical cosmograms and symbols.

Zachary Selig's paintings juxtaposed spiritual themes that reflected his extensive 40-year background as an artist and spiritist.