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
Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Celeste Rapone and Sarah Peters, Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Future Amateur, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Everlast: Celeste Rapone and Betsy Odom, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Celeste Rapone and Justin O’Brien, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Celeste Rapone and Jenn Smith, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
Behind Face, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Small Paintings, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Five Propositions, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
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
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
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
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
“Playful Interplay of Volumes and Colours Command Celeste Rapone’s Paintings”, Art Verge, Yannis Kostarias, March 8th, 2019
New American Paintings Midwest Issue No. 143
“Celeste Rapone; Lenz Geerk”, Artillery Magazine, Annabel Osberg, September 18th, 2019
“7 NAP Alumni Shows You Can’t Miss”, New American Paintings Blog, September 18th, 2019
“Celeste Rapone and Betsy Odom: Everlast”, Fabrik Magazine, February 18th, 2019
What Should We Do?, Expert Picks, "The Best NYC December Events, According to These Culture Vultures", Paddy Johnson, December 1, 2018
GAYLETTER, November/December 2018, Letter 471, "Art: Rose-tinted - Justin Liam O'Brien & Celeste Rapone", Editors, December 1, 2018
KT Hawbaker, “Curator Gwendolyn Zabicki talks Kierkegaard, FOMO and the relationship between art and anxiety”, Chicago Tribune, August 29
KT Hawbaker, “KT Hawbaker, “Crushing the patriarchy with one look”, Chicago Tribune, May 25
“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