Born 1990, Taos, NM | Lives and works in Sacramento, CA
Cella Costanza’s work navigates the intersections of mythology, material culture, and environmental collapse, moving through these terrains with humor and tenderness. Through sculpture and drawing, she constructs speculative worlds—creating artifacts that blur the lines between past and future, fact and fiction.
Drawing from ancient folklore, contemporary detritus, and recurring cycles of devotion and erosion, she transforms tires, flip-flops, scrunchies, and other consumer remnants into unstable symbols—misread artifacts from imagined histories. Her practice is both intuitive and research-driven, merging material experimentation with an ongoing inquiry into how mythologies are formed, forgotten, and distorted over time.
Cella received her BFA in Painting from California College of the Arts in 2013 and will complete her MFA at UC Davis in July 2025. She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across California and beyond. Her work has been recognized with the Maurine (Fay) Morse Nelson Graduate Fellowship in Art, the Dean’s Award, and the Robert Arneson Award for artistic and academic excellence.
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cellamcostanza@gmail.com