Selma Urbina is a 27-year-old first-generation Mexican-American artist and mother from El Paso, Texas. While growing up, she spent most of her childhood dancing, reading, studying film, and playing sports. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 2015 with a desire for change. After giving birth to her only child in 2019, she acquired her Bachelor's degree in Art Practices at Portland State University. Her adult life mostly consists of hiking, dancing, skateboarding, reading, being, and exploring her creative practice.

Selma’s artistic discipline was inspired by dreams and imaginative experiences as a child. Her deeply embedded passion for stop-motion animation throughout her youth led her to learn various methods of making such as sculpture, set building, costume fabrication, and video production. Her academic career reinforced these self-taught skills through technical practices such as design, drawing, printmaking, bookmaking, video, sculpture, mold making & casting, as well as performance and conceptual art. Throughout her collegiate career, she developed a body of work that focused on conceptual themes of curiosity, fear, vulnerability, and intuition through the use of narrative storytelling. In the final year of her undergraduate studies, after becoming a mother, Selma's artistic practice dramatically transformed into an exploration of feminine and maternal themes. Redefining motherhood from her own physical and psychological experience, her practice stood to defy preconceptions of the mother’s place in the art world by boldly taking up space. Most recently, her practice is undergoing another transitional state of evolution influenced by monumental transcendent spiritual experiences.