The Ache for Home, ArtReach St. Croix Gallery, Stillwater, MN

The Ache for Home, Christensen Center Art Gallery, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN

(re)locate: A Place to Call Home, with photographer Wing Young Huie, The Third Place Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Home, Center for Changing Lives, Minneapolis, MN

In Her View, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (Curated by Casey Riley, Curator and Head Department of Photography & New Media, Minneapolis Institute of Art)

Journeys Here, Minnesota State Arts Board, Saint Paul, MN

The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN (curated by Stephanie L. Rogers, Executive Director, Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN)

Latino Art Migration, Concordia Art Center, Saint Paul, MN (curated by Billy Franklin, Independent Curator, Minneapolis, MN)

Selected Works, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN (curated by Tricia Heuring, Co-Director and Curator, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN)

The New Americans, with Pao Houa Her, Mohamud Mumin, Steve Ozone, Mineapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition, Griffin Museum, Winchester MA (juror: Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator, Designer and Writer).

Passages: Walking in Contemporary Art, Perlman Teaching Museum, Northfield,.MN (curated by Christina Chang, Interim Director and Curator, Perlman Teaching Museum)

The Portrait, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN (juror: David E. Little, Curator and Head of Department of Photography and New Media, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN)

Mexican / American / Mexican, Art at 801, Minneapolis, MN (curated by Laura Migliorino, Visual Artist)

NEMAA Wintertide Biennial Juried Art Exhibition, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN, 2015 (curated by Tricia Heuring, Co-Director and Curator, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN)

Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards Portrait Exhibition, Centre for Asian Photographers, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

FlakPhoto Midwest Print Show, Madison Public Library, Madison, WS, (curated by Andy Adams, Independent Curator, Madison, WI)

Selections from the 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Lanesboro Arts Center, Lanesboro, MN.

Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art Project Space, Saint Paul, MN (jurors: Brian Frink, Artist, Mankato, MN; Meredith Lynn, Artist, Moorhead, MN and Christina Chang, Curator of Engagement, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul,MN)

International Image Festival , Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, Mexico City

Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards Portrait Exhibition, Whitebox, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

International Image Festival, Hidalgo State University, Pachuca, Mexico

Classic Macau, Samuel L. Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Classic Macau, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Home, Oso Bay Biennial XVIII, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX. ( juror: Molly Roberts, Director of Photography, Smithsonian Magazine)

Women behind the lens: 100 years of Photographic Creation in Mexico 1910-2010, Nuevo Leon Center for the Arts, Monterrey, Mexico (curated by Emma Cecilia Garcia Krinsky, Art Historian and Independent Curator)

Portraits 2014, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (curated by Amy Arbus)

Diverse Perspectives Salon, Inver Hills Art Gallery, Inver Grove Heights, MN

Masquerades, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA

Home: Where We Live, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN (curated by David J. Fraher)

XV years of Mary Ellen Mark ́s Photography Workshop in Oaxaca, Fototeca Nacional, Pachuca, Mexico

Women behind the lens: 100 years of Photographic Creation in Mexico 1910-2010, Arocena Museum, Torreón, Mexico (curated by Emma Cecilia García Krinsky)

Salon de la Fotografía Nuevo Leon 2011, Nuevo Leon Center for the Arts, Monterrey, Mexico

Women behind the lens: 100 years of Photographic Creation in Mexico 1910-2010, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico (curated by Emma Cecilia García Krinsky) (catalogue)

XV years of Mary Ellen Mark ́s Photography Workshop in Oaxaca, Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photography Center, Oaxaca, Mexico

Best of Photography in Nuevo Leon 1999-2006, Plaza Fatima Cultural Center San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico

Fotografía Regia 1999-2006, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City

Photographic Artists from Nuevo Leon, Fotoseptiembre USA 2008, Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, TX

Salón de la Fotografía, Nuevo Leon 2003, Nuevo Leon Center for the Arts, Monterrey, Mexico

Creative Support for Individuals Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Saint Paul, MN

Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Saint Paul, MN

American Photography 32

McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN

Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, Saint Paul, MN

The Portrait, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN, first place award (juror: David E.Little, Curator and Head of Department of Photography and New Media, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN)

Fall Fine Arts Show, Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA), first prize

Wintertide Biennial Juried Art Exhibition, NEMAA & Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN, third place in photography category

Fall Fine Arts Show, Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA), first prize

Minnesota Biennial Finalist, Minnesota Museum of American Art

PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Gold Medal in Portraiture

International Image Festival Contest Finalist, Pachuca, Mexico

International Photography Awards, Deeper Perspective, Portrait and Photo Essay/Feature Story Categories, Honorable Mention

Forca Noreste Artist Residency in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Salon de la Fotografía Nuevo Leon, Honorable Mention, Center for the Arts-Conarte, Monterrey, Mexico

Salon de la Fotografía Nuevo Leon, Acquisition Prize, Center for the Arts-Conarte, Monterrey, Mexico

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Nuevo Leon Center for the Arts, Monterrey, Mexico

Manuel Alvarez Bravo Photography Center, Oaxaca, Mexico

Private and Corporate collections

McKnight Visual Artist Discussion Series with fellow Kristina Estell and Cesar Garcia, founder and curator of the Mistake Room in Los Angeles, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, MN, April 2017

Guest Critic, MFA Critic Seminar Class, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, MN, October 2017

Visiting Artist for Introduction to Contemporary Art and Theory Class, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March 2016

Art Talk: Three 2014 MN Biennial Artists in conversation - “Absence / Presence” with artists Regan Goden McNerney and Howard Quednau. Minnesota Museum of American Art Project Space, Saint Paul, MN, July 2014

Everwood Farm Foundation, Digital Photography and Visual Storytelling workshop, Gleenwood City, WI with photographer Andy Richter, October 2017

Tyrone Guzman Foundation, Photography Workshop for Latino youth, Minneapolis, MN, June-July, 2017

Photography Workshop in Juchitan, Mexico, with photographer Andy Richter, November, 2016

Women behind the lens: 100 years of photographic creation in Mexico, 1910-2010, Emma Cecilia Garcia Krinsky – Conaculta

Cien por Mexico, Expansion Editorial Group

Salon de la Fotografía Nuevo Leon, Center for the Arts – Conarte

XV Years of Mary Ellen Mark ́s Photography Workshop in Oaxaca, Editorial Arte Oaxaca

Salon de la Fotografía Nuevo Leon, Center for the Arts – Conarte

Heidi Volpe, “The Daily Edit: Selma Fernández Richter, aPhotoEditor, March 17, 2020.

Regan Golden, “Being in Place: Selma Fernández Richter’s The Ache for Home”. MN ARTISTS, January 8, 2018.

UNICEF, Financial Times Deutschland, CNN Mexico, Harvard Business School, Bloomberg Businessweek, Macao Government Tourism Office, Expansion Editorial Group, Ternium Mexico, Metalsa, Alfa Group, Cervecería Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, Fox Media, Nickelodeon.