Celia Eberle was born in East Texas in 1950 and grew up in the Piney Woods, a place more Southern Gothic than many people would imagine when they think of Texas. In contrast to this insular Bible Belt experience were many quixotic trips to Mexico, where her family often drove as far as Monterrey. These trips were also her first exposure to art, both high and low, all glorious to her and instilling an appreciation for myriad means of expression. Art has remained her constant pursuit as she continues to live in Texas, where she received her BFA with Honors from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1974. She dates her professional career from her inclusion in Women of the Big State at Women & Their Work in Austin, juried by Lisa Phillips in 1986. From 1987 to 1992 she was a member of the historic Dallas co-op gallery 500X, where she first began working with the themes regarding the persistence of ideas and images across time, which she continues to develop. She has had numerous solo exhibits in Texas, and her work has been included in shows in Buffalo, New York; Portland, Oregon; and Chicago. In 2024, she was selected by Beverly Adams, Curator of Latin American Art, MoMA, for an Artpace residency culminating in an installation that remains open until mid-January, 2025. She had a one-person exhibit as part of the Nasher Public program at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, in 2022. In 2017, she was included in Commanding Space: Women Sculptors of Texas at the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, and To See is to Have at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. Honors and awards include the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; the Nasher Sculpture Center Microgrant; the Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art; a Merit Award Grant from the Friends of the Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts, juried by Walter Hopps; and an M-AAA/NEA fellowship. Public collections include the Dallas Museum of Art (Texas Artist Fund), the J. Wayne Stark Gallery at Texas A&M, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Longview Museum of Fine Arts (Purchase Award), and many private collections.