Celia González is a visual artist and anthropologist who lives and works in Mexico City. She raduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and the Higher Institute of Art in Havana. She also holds a Master's degree in Visual Anthropology from FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador.
She is currently doing doctoral studies in the Department of Social Anthropology of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She has participated in the exhibitions “La otra isla” at Casa Galván, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-UAM (2019), “Cross Currents / Cultural Exchange” at the Smart Museum of Art and National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago (2019), “Itinerarios XXV” at the Centro Botín in Santander, Spain (2019), “Another Dawn in the Tropics” at Reinbeckhallen, Berlin (2018), “Kochi-Muziris Biennial” in Kerala, India, (2018), “Climate Change: Cuba/USA”, University of South Florida, Tampa (2018), “Delikado Peligroso”, Matadero, Madrid (2017), “Cuba mi amor,” Les Moulins, Continua Gallery, Paris (2017), “No White/No Black (No and), Cifo Art Space Foundation, Miami (2017), “Art x Cuba. Contemporary Perspectives since 1989”, the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany (2017), “Archive Collection”, National Museum of Art, Havana (2017), “Between individuality and context”, Cuban Pavilion at the Biennial of Venice (2015), “Rendez-Vous”, Biennale de Lyon, France, 2015, “11 Biennale de La Habana”, Gran Teatro de La Habana (2012).
She has held residencies at Reinbeckhallen, Berlin; El Ranchito, Matadero, Madrid; New Talents Biennale Residency, Cologne, Germany; Marrakech Biennale Residency, Morocco; KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria. She received a visual arts scholarship from the Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain, 2017-2018, a scholarship from the the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, and the award for Best Young Artist of the Year, Fundación Farber, 2015.