Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Cecilia is a New York City–based artist working across sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Rooted in research around urban planning, waste, and ritual, her practice investigates how these systems choreograph the movements of bodies—both individual and collective—through public space. Her work traces the ways in which space shapes identity, and in turn, how communities imprint themselves back onto the built environment. Through installations, spaces are created that draw attention to the everyday movements involved in navigating and perceiving the material world. In her work, the byproducts of capitalism, such as plastics and ubiquitous consumables, find balance within playful systems of care. This framework explores themes of displacement, transformation, and cycles of renewal, while positioning the public as both viewers and participants in the work.
Cecilia graduated with an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2023. Her work has been in group shows at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Entrance Gallery, Below Grand, Jenkins Johnson Projects, Half Gallery, Wallach Gallery, Yeh Art Gallery, Spring Break Art Fair, EFA 20/20 Gallery, and The Rhizome Center. She recently had solo exhibitions at Astor Weeks in 2023 and Subtitled.NYC in 2024. Cecilia was a Neiman Center Fellow from 2021-2023, an Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program Fellow for the 2023-2024 session, and a resident at the Hercules Art Studio Program from 2023-2025. She was awarded a grant to attend Anderson Ranch in 2022. Cecilia currently teaches at Pratt Institute and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.