Céline Browning

She/Her/Hers

I am an artist and educator from Chicago currently based in Louisville, Kentucky. Through my work, I investigate the complexity of American identity in the 21st century and how that identity is made manifest in visual culture. Using the vocabulary of surrealism and pop-art, I deconstruct, combine, and repurpose common American symbols, creating objects that seem frozen in transition, caught between contradictory states of being. Through this investigation, I aim to question the relationship between signifier and signified, image and object, sacred and profane. My work has been exhibited extensively, most notably through a three-year traveling group exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum (2017-2020), a solo show at Northwestern University (2019), as well as group shows at the Stony Island Arts Bank (2018) and the Pinakothek Der Moderne in Munich (2014). In the fall of 2019, I was named a finalist in the Miami University Young Sculptors Competition. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the Kentucky College of Art and Design.