Celeste Fichter

Instagram: @celestefichter

Website: http://celestefichter.com

Bio: Celeste Fichter holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of the Visual Arts (NY), a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from William Paterson University (NJ) and has studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (CA) and Middlesex Polytechnic (UK). She has had solo exhibitions at 57W57 Arts (NYC), Point of Contact Gallery at Syracuse University (NY), Go North Gallery in Beacon (NY), PH Gallery (NYC) and the Boyden Gallery at St Mary’s College (MD). Selected group exhibitions include the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT), Islip Art Museum (NY) and the Bronx Museum of Art (NYC). She has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell (NH), Centrum (WA) and Fundación Valparaiso (Spain). Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and the Village Voice. Her video work has been in several traveling festivals including the Festival of (In)appropriation (CA) and ARTPORT_making waves and her artists books are in the Artists Book Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (CT) and the Rhode Island School of Design’s Special Collections (RI).

Statement: With insight and a quiet deadpan humor, Celeste Fichter’s inventive work encourages the viewer to see the world sideways – where the dominant culture that dictates value is not in charge. Embracing what the mainstream casts aside as unimportant, her work insists that significance is in the eye of the beholder and the hands of the maker. Influenced by Arte Povera, Fluxus, Duchamp and the life inherent in humble subjects and readymade materials, she makes work that incorporates photography, video, found objects, collage, installation, multiples and artists books to give voice to the mundane and celebrates the everydayness of things.