CELESTE RAPONE

Born 1985 in New Jersey Lives and works in Chicago

EDUCATION 

2013 MFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago 2007 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

SOLO AND TWO PERSONS EXHBITIONS

2020 Solo Exhibition, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, London
2019 Solo Exhibition, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Everlast: Celeste Rapone and Betsy Odom, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL

Celeste Rapone and Justin O’Brien, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Celeste Rapone and Jenn Smith, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Small Painting, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
2018  Five Propositions, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
On Anxiety, Cleve Carney Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
Stretching out the Cramp: A Drawing Survey from 2017, Green Door Gallery, Chicago, IL Women Painting Men, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL

2017 8, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY Not Knowing, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL Minds Eye I, Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago, IL Close to Me, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL

2016 Figure It Out, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA Storytelling, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

2015 Seven, Elizabeth Houston Gallery New York, NY

2014 Ground Floor: A Biennial Exhibition of New Art For Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago,IL Luminarts Cultural Foundation Visual Arts Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL Hoarding, Amassing, and Excess, Northern Illinois Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
2013 Should have gave you my number, Art Amalgamated, New York

American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI Union Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Severe Style, LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

2010 I Speak American, The Gallery at Delaware County Community College, Media, PA

2009 Emerging Artists 2009, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
INPLACE, SOHO20 Chelsea, New York, NY
ATOA (Artists Talk on Art) Winners Exhibition, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY

2008 Rockers and Posers, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY
2007 The Last Word, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ
RISD Alumni Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
RISD Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD Illustration Departmental Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES 

2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
2017 Working Artist Grant Recipient
2013 Teaching Fellowship, Department of Painting and Drawing, SAIC, Chicago, IL

2009 First Place, Emerging Artists 2009, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY Artist Fellowship, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Winner, Curator’s Choice, ATOA (Artists Talk on Art)

2007 School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Program, Painting and Mixed Media, New York, NY Winner, Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY Illustration Departmental Award for Excellence in Figure Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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