Cecilia Fiona
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Artist statement
Cecilia Fiona (b. 1997) is a Copenhagen based artist working across painting, sculpture and performance in an interconnected practice in which each medium extends and informs the others. Her performances embody the biomorphic forms that emerge within her paintings, while her sculptural works expand the landscapes and narratives developed through her imagery. Employing organic materials such as paper pulp, shells, branches, rabbit-skin glue, jute, loofah and natural pigments, Fiona explores the relationship between the body and the earth. Drawing on mythology, human and plant biology and imagination, she creates speculative worlds inhabited by hybrid beings that dissolve distinctions between human, nature and cosmos. Across her work, figures, landscapes and ecosystems continuously transform into one another, proposing alternative ways of understanding interconnectedness and coexistence. Fiona has presented solo exhibitions internationally at institutions such as TOWNER, Eastbourne, UK (2026) and Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK (2025). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2026); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2026); The Drawing room, London (2026); Skaftfell Art Center, Iceland (2026); HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark (2025); and SIXI Museum, Nanjing, China (2024). In 2027 she will present her work in a group show at Den Frie - Centre of Contemporary art (copenhagen) and open her first solo show with...
Artwork
- Being, 2025. Jute textile, latex milk, gauze textile, pigment, rabbit skin glue, indigo plant, metal, wood, branches, cellulose glue.
- Infinite Pollination, 2026. Full performance documentation. Performed at Bergen Kunsthall during Borealis Festival.
- what a joy to live above and below all at once , 2026. Jute textile, wood, loofah plant, dried seagrass, pigment, rabbit-skin glue, sisal, oysters, wool, latex, gaze textile.
- Spirals Gathering, Time Breathing , 2026. paper pulp fibres from old newspapers, cellulose glue from pine trees, shellac resin from the insect Kerria Lacca, pigments, seashells, branches, latex milk, gauze textile, jute textile, rabbit skin glue, a dead tree, salt, wood, metal, sisal fibre from the agave sisalana plant, indigo plant
- Birth and black holes // The butterfly between worlds , 2026. Rabbit skin glue and pigments on canvas
- Questions from a seed , 2026. paper pulp fibres from old newspapers, cellulose glue from pine trees, Shellack resin from the insect Kerria Lacca, pigments, metal, wire, speaker, cables, amplifier, sound. Vocal composition by Lucie Cure
- Ghost Flower Ritual , 2025. Performance
- Multiple Beginnings , 2025. paper pulp, wood, branches, resin from trees, shellack from insects, shells, pigment
- Infinite Pollination , 2024. Rabbit skin glue and pigments on canvas
- Are we living inside a body?, 2025. Rabbit skin glue and pigments on canvas
- Harvested, Gathered, Carried (The Life of Souls) , 2025. paper pulp, metal, resin from trees, shellack from insects, gauze textile, latex milk
- What a joy to live above and below all at once (1), 2024. Jute textile, latex milk, gauze textile, pigment, rabbit skin glue, indigo plant, metal, wood, branches, cellulose glue.
- Deep wells, 2024. Rabbit skin glue and pigments on canvas
- The long history of water , 2024. Rabbit skin glue and pigments on canvas
- Answers from angels (look at the young, look at the old, look at our time, look at our shrine) , 2024. Rabbit skin glue and pigments on canvas
- The weight of the world / Sky-sea, 2022. Rabbit skin glue and pigments on canvas