Celeste Rapone
Celeste Rapone (b. 1985, New Jersey, USA) fuses material invention, humour, high-low free play, tough art history and resourcefulness with the figure, all in service of detailed 21st-century narratives that prioritise women. Rapone is a 2013 MFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago — where she is now an adjunct professor in painting and drawing — and the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Josh Lilley and Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago.
Celeste Rapone lives and works in Chicago.
Education
2013, MFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2007, BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Solo Exhibitions
2023
House Sounds, Josh Lilley, London
2022
Nightshade, Marianne Boesky, New York
2021
Controlled Burn, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2020
Celeste Rapone and Sarah Peters, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City
Retreat, Josh Lilley, London
The Big Dig: Celeste Rapone (Virtual Exhibition)Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2019
Behind Face, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
2018
Rose Tinted: Celeste Rapone and Justin O’Brien, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2023
Women on the Verge, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Flesh and Flowers, No Name, Paris
Framing the Female Gaze, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York
Aspen Part II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen
Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha
Neo Chicago, The Peninsula Chicago, Chicago
2022
Celeste Rapone + Ryan Mosley, Josh Lilley Pop-Up, Los Angeles
A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2021
Wild Frontiers, The Pit, Los Angeles
Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilley, London
In Situ, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen
2020
Duo show Sarah Peters - Celeste Rapone, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
2019
Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley, London
Small Painting, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2018
Celeste Rapone and Justin O’Brien, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Everlast: Celeste Rapone and Betsy Odom, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago
Five Propositions, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
On Anxiety, Cleve Carney Gallery, Glen Ellyn
Stretching out the Cramp: A Drawing Survey from 2017, Green Door Gallery, Chicago
Women Painting Men, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside
2017
Celeste Rapone and Jenn Smith, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago
8, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York
Not Knowing, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
Minds Eye I, Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago
Layer Cake, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
Close to Me, Roots and Culture, Chicago
2016
Figure It Out, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston
Storytelling, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens
2015
Seven, Elizabeth Houston Gallery New York
2014
Ground Floor: A Biennial Exhibition of New Art For Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Luminarts Cultural Foundation Visual Arts Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago
Hoarding, Amassing, and Excess, Northern Illinois Art Museum, DeKalb
2013
Should have gave you my number, Art Amalgamated, New York
American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph Union Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition, Chicago
MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Severe Style, LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2010
I Speak American, The Gallery at Delaware County Community College, Media
2009
Emerging Artists 2009, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY INPLACE, SOHO20 Chelsea, New York
ATOA (Artists Talk on Art) Winners Exhibition, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York
2008
Rockers and Posers, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn
2007
The Last Word, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange
RISD Alumni Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York RISD Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence
RISD Illustration Departmental Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence
Press
CV
Exhibitions
House Sounds
Solo Show
Celeste Rapone + Ryan Mosley - LA Pop-up Exhibition
Group Show
Time Takes a Cigarette
Group Show
Retreat
Solo Show
Stains on a Decade
Group Show