CONTACT: celso@elcelso.com
Photo courtesy of Jazz Beaulieu
“words arə thə ənəmy.” – əl cəlso
The Art Newspaper described his recent show, “Art Burn,” an International contemporary art expo & immolation, as a “bonfire of the art vanities” and the Miami Herald declared it “a funky Basel sideshow.” The New York Times described his previous exhibition, “Post No Bills,” a street art gallery installation in Long Island City as “audacious.” The Brooklyn Rail describes El Celso as “a street artist with a taste for experimentation, a knack for making things happen and a predilection for drawing colorful naked women.” His figurative drawings, paintings and original works on Plexiglas were also the subject of a documentary series, “The Streets of New York,” which was broadcast on NHK in Japan in 2008. His work is also featured in numerous publications, street art books and web sites.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Woodward Gallery, New York – January 2012
Pandemic Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (solo) – March 2011
Art of Basketball, Miami, Florida – December 2010
Woodward Gallery, New York – May 2010
Barneys, New York – May 2010
Winkleman Gallery, New York – March 2010
Follin Gallery, New York (solo) – January 2010
Art Burn, Miami, Florida (artist/curator) - December 2009
Brooklynite Gallery, Brooklyn, New York – November 2009
AK-57 Gallery, New York (artist/curator) - September 2009
Gawker Artists, New York – August 2009
Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, New York – May 2009
Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles – January 2009
Factory Fresh, Brooklyn, New York (artist/curator) - November 2008
Gallerie Pulaski, Queens, New York (artist/curator) - July 2008
Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, New York – June 2008
Woodward Gallery, New York – May 2008
chashama ABC Gallery, New York (artist/curator) - April 2008
Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, New York – April 2008
ABC No Rio, New York – March 2008
Ad Nauseum, Harlem, New York – January 2008
SCOPE, New York – February 2007
Kingsborough Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (artist/curator) - June 2007
Pure Project, New York (artist/curator) - March 2007
11 Spring Street, New York – December 2006
Artists Space, New York – November 2006
Flux Factory, Queens, New York – October 2006
Bebe Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 2005
80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York – February 2004
MoMA, New York – April 2002
PUBLICATIONS: Hoop Scoop, ARTnews (NY: February 2011); The Art of Destruction, ARTnews (NY: May 2010); Bonfire of the Art Vanities, The Art Newspaper (LONDON: 12/04/09); Precious Works Go Up in Flames for Art’s Sake, Miami Herald (FL: 12/03/09); Peep-o-rama, Time Out NY, (NY: 09/08/09); Construction Zone: Beware of Audacious Art, The New York Times (NY: 07/02/08); The Very Public Life of Street Art, The Brooklyn Rail (NY: May 2008); Street Art in Alphabet City, Village Voice (NY: April 2008 –online); The Vandalism Vandal, New York Magazine (NY: 06/04/07); Don’t Hate, Collaborate!, Peel Magazine (NY: 06/1/07); The Street Art Show, Juxtapoz.com (NY: 06/05/07); The Alien Invader, Village Voice (NY: 03/13/07); Last Hurrah for Street Art, as Canvas Goes Condo, The New York Times (NY: 12/14/06); Small, but fierce, art, Metro (NY: 11/10/04); Lies, New York Press (NY: 10/27/04); Mano a Mano, Hoy (NY: 4/2/04); Soho’s Bold & Beautiful, Daily News (NY: 4/1/04); Adbusters Quarterly: Summer 1995, Vol. 3, No. 4.
BOOKS: Graffiti 365, Jay Edlin (2011); Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, DB Burkeman/Monica LoCascio (2010); Untitled. I &II. Street Art Counter Culture, Gary Shove (2009); Going Postal, Martha Cooper (2009); Street Art Cookbook, Benke Carlsson/Hop Louie (2009); This Means Nothing, Le Bijoutier (2008); Brooklyn Street Art, Jaime Rojo/Steven P. Harrington (2007); NYC BCN Street Art Revolution, Louis Bou (2006)
FABRICATIONS: September 2010, Aurora Robson, Brooklyn, New York; October 2004 Jenny Holzer & Lady Pink, Munich, Germany; August 2004 Jenny Holzer & Lancome, Paris, France; May 2004 El Museo del Barrio, New York
RESIDENCIES/EDUCATION: Artist-in-residence, chashama 57th St. Studios, 2009; chashama 40 Worth St. Studios, 2005; Art Students League of New York, Anatomy, 2001
E-MAIL ME: celso [at] elcelso.com
