Celeste Santistevan

As a visualartist, Celeste finds portraiture as a way to convey emotion, social narratives and personal stories. Portraits are not just representations of the external; they are a window into identity, struggle and hope. Celeste is particularly drawn to experimenting with color, expression, unique features, and combining beauty with ugly. Her style is somewhat illustrative, with elements of the subject's environment or emotional state interwoven.
Celeste is from Avondale, Colorado and graduated from Colorado State University of Pueblo in 2022 with a Bachelor’s in Fine art. Her academic journey assisted in finding how she wanted to find her style and speak her voice through art. Her work spans across multiple formats from intimate painting to large scale murals as well as illustrations and design. Through each medium Celeste experiments with, she seeks to engage the viewer in dialogue about how it makes them feel, playfulness, and shared narratives.