Céline Browning is an artist and educator born in Chicago, and currently based in greater NYC. She has an MFA in Metals from SUNY New Paltz and a dual BFA in Craft and Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Browning began her career in metalsmithing and fibers, focusing on the conceptual potential of functional objects. Her work has been exhibited extensively, most notably through a three-year travelling group exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, a solo show at Northwestern University, as well as group shows at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago and the Pinakothek Der Moderne in Munich. In 2019, she was named a finalist in the Miami University Young Sculptors Competition, and in 2022 she received a grant from Josephine Sculpture Park to create a large-scale permanent public sculpture. She has been an artist-in-residence with Columbus State University, Good Hart Artist Residency in Michigan, Arts Letters + Numbers in upstate New York, the Warwick Foundation in Kentucky, and Josephine Sculpture Park.

<Image: "Melting Ground" is a 5-channel video installation, covered in dirt and partially buried in the ground; a site-specific work for a white-night festival at Bernheim arboretum. The videos show the forest floor in winter, with the artist's handprints emerging and disappearing in the snow. The body of the artist is absent, but the effect of the artist's presence is clearly visible. The work questions the human desire to create a lasting mark on the earth, simultaneously referencing cave paintings and climate change.>