Teresa Celemin is an artist and illustrator working in Burlington, Vermont.

Teresa was born in the Philippines and grew up outside of Syracuse, New York. At the age of seventeen Teresa 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. 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. She was selected to be in Volume 47 of Studio Visit Magazine as well in its Legacy Collection in Volume 53. Teresa won First Place in the jury competition for Burlington’s Art Hop with her submission Billy Bountyhunter’s Trophy Wall: Abortion Heads of Texas. Read the review here. Teresa was quoted in The Times Argus regarding her piece Fly Aways exhibited at Studio Place Arts. Her work is part of the collection at Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art and her piece, Molecular Structure, was exhibited at the Seven Bridges Foundation in Greenwich CT in the summer of 2025. Her work was featured in the May 7 2025 edition of Seven Days. She was a presenter at Burlington’s Pecha Kucha Night and you can watch the video here. She is an adjunct professor at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. She also teaches drawing courses for Champlain Valley Union Access.

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Email: soundslikecelery@gmail.com.