Celia Castaldo is an interdisciplinary sculptural artist based in Charlotte, NC whose practice spans metals, ceramics, fibers, plastics, and mixed media. Castaldo earned a BFA in 3D Interdisciplinary Studies and a BA in Art History from UNC Charlotte in 2025. Their work is informed by research into Surrealism, Modernism, and prehistoric visual culture, often engaging themes of memory, decay, and material transformation. Although new to set design, Castaldo’s background in installation art and research into cave art provided the foundation for their role as designer and fabricator for Mthuthuzeli November’s As I Am, commissioned in partnership with the McColl Center and Charlotte Ballet.
They were the recipient of the Lucy Morgan scholarship in summer 2025, which fully covered a two-week session at Penland School of Craft in Bakersville, North Carolina for a class in copper enameling. Their works towards things sunk in the deep earth and dark shadow and two works from The Anthropos series are published in the Nova Literary-Arts Magazine in 2025. Castaldo’s work will be in several group exhibitions in 2025 including: To Be Consumed at Goodyear Arts (February 2025), 57th Annual Juried Student Exhibition at UNC Charlotte (February-March 2025), and Cabinet of Curiosities at UNC Charlotte (April 2025).
