Celeste Neuhaus (she/they) is a multimodal artist and witch who constellates magic, ecology, and healing. Her sculptural objects, installations, assemblages, paintings, performance videos, and guided interactive rituals incite transformation of the grievous consequences of living within amalgamated systems of oppression and corresponding biodiversity annihilation. Through polysemic symbolism and alchemical materiality their work colorfully clarifies the often subconscious interdependencies between the somatic - psychological - political - ecological - cosmological. 

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Living with multiple chronic illnesses her entire adult life serves as a catalyst for Celeste’s tenacious research into a spectrum of healing modalities and their corresponding ontologies. The fruits of these inquiries, along with her devotion to several lineages of ancient magical practices, continuously shape the forms of their work. Her offerings have been encountered in museums, magic temples, vacant lots, tree farms, art galleries, riverboats, salt flats, rooftops, and fields of wildflowers.

 

Celeste is currently the 2026 Artist in Residence at the Center for PostNatural History, and a member of the Shiftworks Creative Corps. They have been an artist-in-residence at ACRE (Steuben, WI), Harold Arts Residency (Chesterhill, OH), Gateway to the Arts, (Hookstown, PA), and The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). 

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Celeste completed a Post Graduate Certification In Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate School, achieved their MFA at the University of New Mexico where they were a selected artist in the Land Arts program in Art and Ecology, and earned their BFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been an invited visiting artist at Eastern Carolina University (Greenville, NC) and Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN). The Nevada Museum of Art and the University of Illinois Chicago have collected her work.

 

Local and national performances and exhibitions include: the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Mattress Factory, SPACE Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), Submersive HQ (Baltimore, MD) White Page Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN), Sanitary Tortilla Factory (Albuquerque, NM), Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), School of Visual Art (New York, NY), and P.A.A.J. (Los Angeles, CA).

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Celeste worked as an independent art educator in multiple disciplines for over fifteen years with students of various backgrounds ranging from toddlers to elders. During her time as an instructor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, she discovered her love of providing people with focused creative guidance. This became her mission, and in 2018 Conjure Creativity was born. Through targeted healing sessions, she empowers each of her clients to align with the cycles of their unique creative process.

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