Celia Hollander
Composer
Celia Hollander is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer and performer. She has composed original music for feature films including Union County (Sundance 2026), Humboldt USA (Visions Du Réel 2026), and Good One (Sundance 2024), as well as for short films, television, theater, dance, art installations, and VR projects. Her discography features releases on Leaving Records, Longform Editions and Recital and she has performed at venues including 2220 Arts & Archives (LA), Public Records (NYC), Grace Cathedral (SF), Basilica Hudson (NY) and Bond Chapel (CHI). She has taught acoustics and composition at the Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts, where she completed her MFA in Music Composition and Experimental Sound Practices.
Selected Credits
SCORES
Humboldt USA (Feature Documentary)
Ford Foundation
Director: G. Anthony Svatek
Producers: Elijah Stevens, G. Anthony Svatek
Union County (Feature Film)
Seaview Productions
Director: Adam Meeks
Producers: Brad Becker-Parton, Martha Gregory, Stephanie Roush, Will Poulter
Starring: Will Poulter, Noah Centineo, Elise Kibler, Emily Meade
Good One (Feature Film)
Smudge Films
Director: India Donaldson
Producers: Diana Irvine, India Donaldson, Gabriella Moses, Eric Yue
Starring: Lily Collias, James Le Gros, Danny McCarthy
re:MARS Luminaries (Television Series)
Amazon Prime Video
Episode 6
Starring: Tom Soderstrom
Dad & Step-Dad (Feature Film)
Director: Tynan DeLong
Starring: Tynan DeLong, Tim Heidecker
Finding Beast (Short Film)
Director: Olivia Accardo
IF FOUND (Short Film)
Director: India Donaldson
HANNAHS (Short Film)
Director: India Donaldson
Eclipsed (Short Animation)
BrainDead Studios
Director: Jamie Wolfe
Prizes (Short Animation)
California Institute of the Arts
Director: Jamie Wolfe
Core Memory (Video Installation)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
What Water Wants (Audio Walk / Installation)
Clockshop, Los Angeles, CA
Lovelike (Mixed Reality Performance)
2220 Arts & Archives, Occidental College
Director: Jenna Caravello
Starring: Jenna Caravello
Devotion (Dance Performance)
LA Dance Project
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
4 Into 3 (Dance Performance)
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Choreographer: Phoebe Berglund
Starring: Phoebe Berglund
Sunrise / Sunset (Installation)
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany / Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Corps (Dance Performance)
New York Live Arts, REDCAT, The Momentary
Choreographer: Milka Djordjevitch
Starring: Milka Djordjevitch
Loud Lord (Sound Art Installation)
Good Weather Gallery, Chicago, IL
Don’t Give Up (Art Installation)
Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, CA
Review (Dance Performance)
Performa Biennial
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
PARAÍSO (Video Installation)
Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
To All Trains (Public Sound Installation)
Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
Flatwing (Short Film / Installation)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Your Move (Dance Performance)
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
5 Live Calibrations (Dance Performance)
LA Dance Project
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
The Sound Sweep (Sculptural Exhibition / Installation)
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
SCORES
Song For 6 Nostrils (Installation / Performance)
LA Cleantech Incubator, Los Angeles, CA
Amber Row (Virtual Reality Game)
Director: Jenna Caravello
Celestial Spam (Public Art Composition)
Triforium, Los Angeles, CA
PIANOGRAPHS (Installation / Performance Series)
The Getty, Los Angeles, CA
Arena (Dance Performance)
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
Competition (Dance Performance)
Bortolami Gallery
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
The Bumps (Theater Performance)
Skirball Cultural Center
88 Cores (Film / Installation)
Climate Museum / Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Notes on Gesture (Installation)
Audain Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
DRILL (Dance Performance / Installation)
Signal Gallery
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
Los-2 And Torr-2 (Public Art Installation)
LA Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
Shattered Streams (24-Hour Stream Composition)
Red Bull Music Academy, Web
Heimlich (Dance Performance)
Judson Church, NYC
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
MILE (Dance Performance)
Art Basel, Miami, FL
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
DRAFT (Dance Performance)
Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC
Choreographer: Madeline Hollander
Starring: Madeline Hollander
My Last 3 Hour Conversation With Edward Said (Theater Performance)
DIANA, LA
10 Movement Sequences (Dance Performance)
Tina Kim Gallery, NYC
DISCOGRAPHY
Unexpected Music II: Evan Shornstein & Celia Hollander, Extravagant Frequencies.
Perfect Conditions, Vinyl Record.
2nd Draft, Leaving Records, Vinyl Record.
To All Trains, Longform Editions, Digital.
Timekeeper, Leaving Records, Vinyl Record.
Recent Futures, Leaving Records, Vinyl Record.
DRILL, Noumenal Loom, Cassette Tape.
DRAFT, Leaving Records, Cassette Tape.
There Are At Least Two Kinds Of Games, Recital Records, R23 – Various – Cellar Volume 1, CD
102 ̊ , split release with Duenn on the album Hz, duenn jp, dnn038, CD
Just a Dip, No Why, Dzang Recs, Cassette Tape.
MILE, Self-released, Digital.
UNDERLA, Self-released, Digital.
PASS, Self-released, Digital.
LIVESTREAMS, Self-released, Digital.
DRAFT, Self-released, Digital.
– – – — — – – –, Self-released, Digital.
“$ . “, Self-released, Digital.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Celia Hollander, Photay, Public Records, NYC, NY (2026)
Celia Hollander, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Gray Area Foundation, SF (2025)
Celia Hollander & Evan Shornstein: Unexpected Music II, Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, NY (2025)
Wonderfruit Festival, Polygon Stage. Chonburi, Thailand (2024)
Celia Hollander: LA Interval, Noon to Midnight, The Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA, CA (2024)
Celia Hollander, VCR, Leaving Records Anniversary, The Listening Garden, Ojai, CA (2024)
Celia Hollander, Rockaway Film Festival, NYC, NY (2024)
Photay & Celia Hollander: Live Score to the Silent Film “THE WIND,” Braindead Studios, LA, CA (2024)
Suzanne Ciani, Celia Hollander, Reflections. Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA (2024)
Winter Jazz Fest: Photay, Carlos Niño, Randall Fisher & Celia Hollander, National Sawdust, NYC (2023)
“December 1952” by Earle Browne: A Day of Fluxus Scores at The Getty. The Getty Center, LA, CA (2021)
Nailah Hunter, Celia Hollander, Green House, The Growth Eternal. Union Station, Metro Arts LA (2021)
Solos: Ben Babbitt, Celia Hollander, Jeremiah Chiu, Booker Stardrum, Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA (2020)
Soft Structures; Noon to Midnight, Performance for a circulating audience, Disney Hall, LA, CA (2017)
Music for Devices, Performance featuring music for smartphones, California Institute of the Arts (2017)
EDUCATION AND AWARDS
Recipient of the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, NYC, NY
Recipient of the School of Music Special Faculty Project Fund, California Institute of the Arts
MFA in Music Composition & Experimental Sound Practices, California Institute of the Arts
Recipient of the Lillian Disney Scholarship
Jessup Award, For Greatest Promise in Art and Design, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
BA in Studio Art and Architecture, Graduate with High Honors, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Shape Of Two Cities, Columbia University School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, NYC