Celeste De Luna

Celeste De Luna (born 1974) is a Mexican American Chicana visual artist, printmaker, and educator.

Early life and education De Luna was born in 1974 in Aurora, Illinois, to Raymundo De Luna and Alicia De Luna. De Luna's thesis entitled "The borderline between the personal and political", was supervised by Jean Braithwaite, Philip Field, and Richard Phillips.

Career De Luna's work explores American identity through multiple lenses.

De Luna created 'Border Land X Scapes', an art workshop focused on decolonizing the border through a futuristic perspective, emphasising the experiences and histories of indigenous populations.

De Luna is the co-founder of Las Imaginistas, an art collective that contributes to various projects aimed at fostering community dialogue and social awareness. Las Imaginistas collaborates with professors from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to examine the mind and body of Brownsville and challenge colonial ideologies through the city's architecture. Las Imaginistas received an Artplace America Creative Placemaking grant in 2017 and in 2018 an A Blade of Grass Fellows fellowship.

Our Lady of the Checkpoint is a black and white woodcut and vinyl piece on archival paper from 2020. The print features an immigrant version of the Virgin de Guadalupe walking into America barefoot with barbed wire around her.

Healing Borderland Hand is a linocut from 2023, which features many details, including the Virgin de Guadalupe, a skull, cacti, flowers, a bird, barbed wire, and a bug. She has three children.

As of 2025, De Luna lives in San Antonio and works from her home studio, Metzli Press.