Teresa Celemin is an artist and illustrator working in Burlington, Vermont. She was born in the Philippines and grew up outside of Syracuse, New York. At the age of seventeen she won a blue ribbon in the National Scholastic Art Competition and had her work exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Her education includes a BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design and an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art where she studied under Eric Fischl (who owns one of her drawings). She has exhibited nationally including at Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery and St. John the Divine cathedral in NYC. Studio Place Arts Gallery in Barre, VT and the SPACE gallery in Burlington, VT are two galleries where she frequently participates in juried art shows. Solo exhibits have been mounted at Speeder & Earl's in Burlington, Studio Place Arts Gallery (read the review here), and at the Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild in St. Johnsbury, VT. Her drawing Watching Louis CK Masturbate was included in a exhibit at the Flowers Gallery in New York City. Awarded the Artist's Resource Trust Fellowship from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Teresa completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center where she had two winning submissions in their Broadside Competition. In April 2021 she was selected to be in Volume 47 of Studio Visit Magazine. Teresa won First Place in the jury competition for Burlington’s Art Hop 2022 with her submission Billy Bountyhunter’s Trophy Wall: Abortion Heads of Texas. Read the review here. Recently Teresa was quoted in The Times Argus regarding her piece Fly Aways exhibited at Studio Place Arts in early 2024. Her work is part of the collection at Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art. She is an adjunct professor at Champlain College in Burlington, VT where she teaches illustration. She also teaches drawing courses for Champlain Valley Union Access.

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To purchase prints of her work as well as other merchandise go to her Society6 store.