June 29 – July 27, 2024
Steve Turner is pleased to present Sleeping with Ghosts, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Giorgio Celin that address his struggle for self-worth and validation, the complexities of family relationships as well as significant connections with a beloved dog and a former partner. Celin’s recurring imagery of natural elements and his use of contrasting light and dark tones add depth to these narratives, symbolizing growth, resilience, and the dualities of joy and sorrow.
Giorgio Celin (born 1986, Barranquilla, Colombia) moved to a small town near Naples in 1994 and later relocated to Barcelona where he now lives. He is self-taught and organically developed his own painting style to address issues relating to migration, belonging, queerness and the complexity of the Latin diaspora. He has had solo exhibitions at Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2021); Galleria Annarumma, Naples (2022); Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin (2022) and Spinello Projects, Miami (2023). This is his first exhibition at Steve Turner.
Born 1986, Barranquilla, Colombia
Lives and works in Barcelona
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Sleeping with ghosts, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2023
Do you remember? – Feeling, Queerness, Exile, Spinello Project, Miami
CHART Art Fair, Nevven, Sweden
EXPO Chicago (with Kornfeld Galerie)
2022
DDVY? – De donde vengo yo? Eve Liebe Gallery, London
Graduation, 68 Projects, Berlin
The Art School Dropout, Breach, Miami
Pájaros del Atlántico vol.II, Annarumma Gallery, Naples
2021
El bolero fue mi ruina, Taymour Grahne Projects, online
Las Olas, Eve Liebe Gallery, London
Pájaros del Atlántico, Eve Liebe Gallery, online
Without you I’m nothing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
The Art School Dropout, Breach, Miami
Untitled Miami (with Kornfeld Galerie)
Group Exhibitions
2023
Who is your master? 1969 Gallery, New York
Queer intimacy, Taymour Grahne Projects, London
2022
On the road to Basel, Lorin Gallery, Paris
Have we Met? Tesoro Collection, Amsterdam
Come out & Play, Beers, London
Eve Presents II, Eve Liebe Gallery, London
Zoom in, PRIOR Art Space, Berlin
Narrative Minds, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Coming in, Coming out, PRIOR, Berlin
Untitled Miami ( with Kornfeld Galerie)
Art Busan, South Korea (with Kornfeld Galerie)
2021
PAPERWORK vol. II, NBB Gallery, Berlin
Hidden Message, Gallery Func, Shanghai
Oh!baby, Breach, Miami
MISA Discoveries, König Galerie, Berlin
Messe in St Agnese, König Galerie, Berlin
Trascendental, Cuturi Gallery, Singapore
Frozen Times, Annarumma Gallery, Naples
2020
Unleash Magic, PxP Contemporary, online
Mistici, Sensuali, Contemplativi, Metodo Milano, Milan
Keep for Old Memoirs, Young Space NY, online
Zoom in, PRIOR Art Space, Berlin
2019
SPLASH! Palazzo Chigi Albani, Viterbo, Italy
2017
Art Lab Munich, Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich
Tiny Biennale, Temple University, Roma
