Celeste Dupuy-Spencer

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer (b.1979) creates blistering paintings, loaded with a complex mix of iconography, drawn from the real and the imaginary. The artist grapples with urgent and fundamental issues through the symbolic and at times historical nature of its subjects. Both unflinching and empathic, Dupuy-Spencer gives life to arresting compositions that can be bleak and troubling, at times softer and endearing, in which the worldly and the extraordinary, the holy and the base, merge to present a multitude of possible meanings and narratives.

Image: There’ll Be Nobody Hiding (When That Rough God Goes Riding), 2020, oil on linen, 244.5 x 267 cm.; 96 1/4 x 105 1/8 in.

Selected Works

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Solo Exhibitions

But the Clouds Never Hung So Low Before

Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

7 November 2020 – 9 January 2021

Group Exhibitions

SUMMERFEST 2017

curated by Lauren Taschen
Louise Bonnet, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Oliver Osborne, Walter Price, Odessa Straub

Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

17 June – 22 July 2017

Biography

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VITA

1979

Born in New York

2006

Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship

2007

BFA at Bard College

Lives and works in Los Angeles

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

The Dream of the "Burning Child"
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

2020

But the Clouds Never Hung So Low Before
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2018

The Chiefest of Ten Thousand
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

2017

Wild and Blue
Marlborough Contemporary, New York City

2016

And a Wheel on the Track
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

2015

(mostly) works on paper
Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Inaugural Exhibition
Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels

2020

This Is America | Art USA Today
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort

All Them Witches
Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles

2019

The World According To
Pace Gallery, New York

Transworld
Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles

2018

Made in L.A.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

TEN
Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles

2017

Summerfest 2017
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

The Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum, New York

2016

Human Condition
Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles

Tomorrow Never Happens
The Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, Lewisburg

Pleasure Principle
Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles

Frida Smoked
Invisible Exports, New York

2015

Queer Fantasy
OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles

Fetching Blemish
Invisible Exports, New York

2012

In Plain Sight
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

Be-Out
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

2011

Dance/Draw
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

LEIDY, CELESTE, NICOLE
Museum 52, New York

The Page Turners
FiveMyles, Brooklyn

Small Works for a Big Change SRLP
Jack Studios, New York

A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (With Costumes and No Practice)
The Kitchen, New York

2010

I am a feMENist, (with MEN)
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

Now Playing, (with MEN)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Now Playing, (with Ridykeulous)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

B.Y.O.P.(Be Your Own Placebo), 28 Holden St., North Adams

2009

Ridykeulous Hits Bottom
Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York

Chicks on Speed/Girl Monster
Breite Str. 78, Hamburg

Sessions
Taxter & Spengeman, New York

If You Can’t Find A Partner, Use a Wooden Chair
American Donut, Miami

DiSoRgAnIzEd (Another 24 Hours)
Museum 52, New York

Dome Colony, Hogan Community
X Initiative, New York

The Collection of Silence
Dia Art Foundation, Hispanic Society, New York

2008

Bent, Leslie
Loheman Gallery, New York

Balenciaga for Artists, Ridykeulous Event, Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution
MoMA PS1, New York

Making It Together
Bronx Museum, The Bronx

2007

Shared Women
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

Ridykeulous: At Least It’s Not Abstract
The Kitchen, New York

Small Works For a Big Change SRLP
Sarah Metzer, New York

Future 86 24 Hours of Art in the Catskills
Catskill, New York

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