Celeste Rapone

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Celeste Rapone, Backwater, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 68 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Paleos, 2023, oil on canvas, 96 x 90 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Catch, 2023, oil on canvas, 68 x 84 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Onlooker, 2023, oil on canvas, 38 x 36 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Loveseat, 2023, oil on canvas, 46 x 52 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Up and Comers, 2022, oil on canvas, 80 x 70 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Landscaper, 2022, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Monument, 2021, oil on canvas, 85 x 70 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Pack Animals, 2021, oil on canvas, 78 x 89 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Captain, 2021, oil on canvas, 54 x 56 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Soft Core, 2021, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Detailing, 2021, oil on canvas, 64 x 64 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Self-love, 2019, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Corner Office, 2019, oil on canvas, 62 x 56 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Trap, 2019, oil on canvas 34 x 38 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Fixer, 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 32 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Older Sister, 2019, oil on canvas, 24 x 28 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Viewfinding, 2019, oil on canvas, 10 x 9 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Optimist, 2018, oil on canvas, 40 x 38 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Working, 2018, oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Full Crouch, 2018, oil on canvas, 68 x 50 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Cheerleader, 2018, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Big Reach, 2018, oil and crayon on canvas, 70 x 60 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Girl Friday, 2018, oil on canvas, 62 x 56 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Home Gym, 2018, oil on canvas, 64 x 56 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Gambler, 2018, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Young Hopeful, 2018, oil on canvas, 54 x 48 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Outdoor Husband, 2017, oil on canvas, 42 x 38 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Sending Yourself Flowers, 2017, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Artist Wife, 2017, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Peeling Onions, 2017, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Practice for the Real Thing, 2017, oil on canvas, 36 x 32 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Resorting, 2017, oil on canvas, 62 x 62 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Collector, 2017, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches.

Celeste Rapone, New Vegetarians, 2017, oil on canvas, 61 x 50 inches.

Celeste Rapone, Landscape with Sportsman, 2017, oil on canvas, 50 x 46 inches.

BIO

Celeste Rapone (b. 1985, New Jersey) received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin), Josh Lilley Gallery (London), Marianne Boesky Gallery (NYC), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery (Luxembourg), Roberts Projects (LA), Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston), Julius Caesar (Chicago), The Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), the Georgia Museum of Art (Athens), and Monya Rowe Gallery (NYC). Her work is held in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; the Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Mill, Westport, NY; M Woods, Beijing, China; among others. In 2026, Rapone was awarded the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and she is a 2018 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She lives and works in Chicago, IL.

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