Celia Irina González, Havana, 1985, lives and works in Mexico City. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and a Masters in Visual Anthropology from FLACSO, Ecuador. She has participated in the exhibitions “Emergent/cy”, Entre Vienna, Austria; Cuba Dispersa, Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit; “Arte Latinoamericano, Colección MEIAC”, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, “Sin Authorización: Contemporary Cuban Art” Wallach Art Gallery, NY, “Ojos de hueso”, Angeles Baños Gallery, Spain; “Esok”, Jakarta Biennial, Indonesia; “Kochi-Muziris Biennial”, India; Cuban Pavilion, Venice Biennial “Rendez-Vous”, Lyon Biennial. She has received the “Botín Foundation Grant for Visual Arts”, Spain and the “Grants & Commissions Program, The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation” (CIFO), Miami. She has been in residence at Reinbeckhallen Residency Program, Berlin; “El Ranchito Residency”, Matadero Center, Madrid in collaboration with Artista x Artista; Residency Program KulturKontakt, Vienna, Austria; Skills Biennial, Gray´s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen City.

Celia Irina González’s residency at El Espacio 23 is presented in partnership with Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and PAMM’s Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI)