Masters of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Illustration Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
On Anxiety, Cleve Carney Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL
Stretching out the Cramp: A Drawing Survey from 2017, Green Door Gallery, Chicago, IL
Women Painting Men, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
Celeste Rapone and Jenn Smith, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
8, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY
Not Knowing, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Minds Eye I, Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago, IL
Layer Cake, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Close to Me, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
Figure It Out, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
Storytelling, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Seven, Elizabeth Houston Gallery New York, NY
Ground Floor: A Biennial Exhibition of New Art For Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Luminarts Cultural Foundation Visual Arts Exhibition, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Hoarding, Amassing, and Excess, Northern Illinois Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
Should have gave you my number, Art Amalgamated, New York
American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
Union Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Severe Style, LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
I Speak American, The Gallery at Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
Emerging Artists 2009, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
INPLACE, SOHO20 Chelsea, New York, NY
ATOA (Artists Talk on Art) Winners Exhibition, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Rockers and Posers, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY
The Last Word, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ
RISD Alumni Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
RISD Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD Illustration Departmental Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
stARTup Fair, New American Paintings, Chicago IL
Expo Chicago, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
Scope Miami, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, Miami FL
Expo Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Working Artist Grant Recipient
Teaching Fellowship, Department of Painting and Drawing, SAIC, Chicago, IL
First Place, Emerging Artists 2009, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
Artist Fellowship, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
Winner, Curator’s Choice, ATOA (Artists Talk on Art)
School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Program, Painting and Mixed Media, New York, NY
Winner, Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
Illustration Departmental Award for Excellence in Figure Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
“Celeste Rapone and Jenn Smith at Julius Caesar”, Chicago Artist Writers, Kelly Reaves, June 2017
“Fun and Fresh Directions in Painting”, New City, Alan Pocaro, March 2017
New American Painting Midwest Issue 125
“All the Beautiful, Expensive, and Corny Art I saw at Art Basel This Year”,
Vice Media, December 2015, Nick Gazin
The Georgia Review, Featured Artist, “Material Memories”, Jenny Gropp Hess, Fall 2012
New American Paintings MFA Annual, Juror: Dominic Molon, Chief Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Nancy Clare Caponi, Profile: The Art of Celeste Rapone, Makeshift Magazine, Issue #5
CMYK Magazine, Issue #39
ArtInfo, Discover New Talent, May 15th, 2007, www.artinfo.com