Jennifer Celio’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, GA. Her work has been included in exhibits in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta and Houston; and Berlin, Mexico, Colombia, and Canada; and in museum exhibits in Washington, DC, San Francisco, Long Beach, Laguna Beach, and Indianapolis, IN. She was a member of the artist and curator collective Durden and Ray, based in Los Angeles, from 2017 to 2020. She is the recipient of individual artist grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2012) and The City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship (2014), amongst others.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My delicately rendered drawings manipulate perception, creating fantastical iterations in which artificial and natural imagery fuse to become environmental allegories. Working in graphite pencil and powder on wood panels, I create obsessively detailed works with a variety of visual techniques, the imagery inspired by both the urban environment and the wilderness. The works juxtapose the banal with the unbelievable in works that speak to environmental degradation and the complicated human relationship with nature.