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B I O G R A P H Y

Cella has exhibited photographs at the Berlin Biennale, Lisbon Architectural Triennale, Tallinn Print Triennale, Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Melbourne Photo Biennale, Ruhr Biennale and Santorini Biennale. Cella holds an MFA degree and studied at Washington Square Institute for Psychoanalytic Training in New York, l’École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and l’Université Paris-Sorbonne and independently with Nicholas Nixon and Robert Frank. She often collaborated on projects with Klaus Knoll. Their photos are in the collections of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Bibliothèque Nationale Paris; National Austrian Fine Art Photography Collection and Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg. Knoll and Cella also co-founded the Transart Institute for Creative Research, a nomadic platform for cross-pollination offering PhD degrees in partnership with UK institutions. She designs and edits the occasional journal ELSE and writes lyric essays. Cella has a suitcase design patent pending. She lives between Berlin and New York.