Crown Shyness

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.

Celeste Fichter holds an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of the Visual Arts (NYC), 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 presented solo exhibitions at Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University (NY), Go North Gallery in Beacon (NY), and PH Gallery (NYC). She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT) and the Bronx Museum of Art (NYC). She has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell (NH), Centrum (WA) and Fundación Valparaíso (Spain). 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 Rhode Island School of Design’s Special Collections (RI).