Celeste Roberge

Born: 1951, Biddeford, Maine

Selected Education
1986 MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1979 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1979 BFA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of Sculpture at the School of Art and Art History,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 "Celeste Roberge", Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2003 "Drawings and Small Sculpture", June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
"Stacks for Home & Office", A.V.C. Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Sitting Room – Outdoor Sculpture Installation", Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
    "Quarry", Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
2000 "Outdoor Sculpture Commission", Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1998 "STACKS", Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
1997 "STACKS", ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 "Celeste Roberge: Sculpture" NationsBank Plaza, Tampa, FL; org.: Florida Ctr. for Cont. Art
1995 "Geographies. Geologies. Anatomies." Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
1993 "The Mind is a Muscle", Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
1991 "Views of the Head from Behind", Dean Velentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
1989 "Northern Archives: Views from the Hill"
    "Northern Archives: Objects in the Field"
     One person exhibition in two spaces – Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
    "Northern Archives", Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1988 "Northern Archives", Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1986 "Geographies", Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 "Modern Dimensions: Contemporary American Sculpture", Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM
2006 "Pink Days/Azure Nights", Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
2005 "Touchstones", Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
    "South X East", Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
    "Five Florida Sculptors, The New Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2004 "Home", d.u.m.b.o. art center (dac), Brooklyn, NY
2003 "Sculpture Garden Invitational", University of New England, Portland, ME
    "Portland Museum of Art Biennial", Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
    "The Chairs Project", Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2002 "Maine Coast Artists 50th Anniversary Exhibition", Center for Maine Cont. Art, Rockport, ME
2001 "Material and Metaphor", Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
2000 "Intl. Stone Sculptors Expo 2000", Hanover, Germany
    Six artists from six continents invited to work at the off-site quarry project:
    Steinzeichen Steinbergen, Steinbergen, Germany
1999 “On the Ball: the Sphere in Contemporary Sculpture“, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Selected Grants and Residencies
2007 Residency at SIM House in Reykjavik, Iceland
Sponsors: The Assoc. of Icelandic Visual Artists and the Reykjavik Art Museum
2004–07 Research Foundation Grant, University of Florida
2006, 1999 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship
1998, 1991 The Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
1988–89   Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University