Céleste Cebra acknowledges the Garigal and Gayamaygal people, Traditional Custodians of the land on which she lives and works, and pays her respects to their Elders past and present.
Céleste Cebra is an Australian artist, living and working in Sydney. Cebra earned a Master of Fine Arts in Studio through the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. Since graduating, she has undertaken artist residencies at Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn, New York (2019), and Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California (2020), and an Artist Residency in Motherhood (2024).
Her artworks have been included in the 2019 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, and the 2018 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, both major Australian photography surveys. She has been a Fisher’s Ghost Award finalist for three consecutive years (2018-2020) and was a 2018 American Australian Association Arts Fund Scholar.
Cebra received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Sydney’s National Art School in 2015. Upon graduating, she received the Joel Corrigan Memorial Photography Award (the major departmental award, judged by Patrick Corrigan, AM) and a place at the Onslow Storrier National Art School Residency at la Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2016).
Read about the thinking and research behind Céleste Cebra’s artistic practice in this Q&A: LVL3 Artist of the Week: Céleste Cebra.