El Celso

Time describes the artist as "creative," "realistic," and "underestimated." The Art Newspaper described his show, “Art Burn,” an International contemporary art expo & immolation, as a “bonfire of the art vanities” and the Miami Herald declared it “a funky Basel sideshow.” The New York Times described his previous exhibition, “Post No Bills,” a street art gallery installation in Long Island City as “audacious.” The Brooklyn Rail describes El Celso as “a street artist with a taste for experimentation, a knack for making things happen and a predilection for drawing colorful naked women.” His figurative drawings, paintings and original works on Plexiglas were also the subject of a documentary series, “The Streets of New York,” which was broadcast on NHK in Japan in 2008. His work is also featured in numerous publications, street art books and media web sites.

The Art Students League
University of Southern California
Cornell College

ArtYard, Frenchtown, New Jersey - October 2024
Woodward Gallery, New York – April 2020
Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, California – January 2019
Moca, Los Angeles – September 2013
Museo Convento de Santo Domingo Qorikancha, Cusco, Peru – August 2012
Museum of Sex, New York – February 2012
Pandemic Gallery, Brooklyn, New York – March 2011
Art of Basketball, Miami, Florida – December 2010
Winkleman Gallery, New York – March 2010
Art Burn, Miami, Florida - December 2009
Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles – January 2009
Factory Fresh, Brooklyn, New York - November 2008
Gallerie Pulaski, Queens, New York - July 2008
Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, New York – April 2008
ABC No Rio, New York – March 2008
SCOPE, New York – February 2007
Kingsborough Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (artist/curator) - June 2007
11 Spring Street, New York – December 2006
Galerie Spruth Magers, Munich, Germany – November 2004
80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York – February 2004
MoMA, New York – April 2002