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Andres Serrano

American photographer and artist

Andres Serrano

Serrano in 2023

Born (1950-08-15) August 15, 1950 (age 74)

New York City, U.S.

EducationBrooklyn Museum Art School
Known forPhotography
SpouseJulie Ault (m. 1980, div. 2005) Irina Movmyga (current)

Andres Serrano (born August 15, 1950) is an American photographer and artist. His work, often considered transgressive art, includes photos of corpses and uses feces and bodily fluids. His Piss Christ (1987) is an amber-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine. He also created the artwork for the heavy metal band Metallica's Load and Reload albums.

Early life

Serrano was born in New York City on August 15, 1950.[1] He is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background, and was raised as a strict Roman Catholic. He studied from 1967 to 1969 at the Brooklyn Museum Art School,[2][3] yet is considered to be a self-taught photographer. In December 1980, he mar

Andres Serrano was born in New York (USA) in 1950. He lives and works in New York.

 

Graduated from the Brooklyn Museum Art School of New York (USA) in 1969, Andres Serrano is one of the most recognized contemporary artist on the international art scene.

 

He enjoyed several major solo shows such as Andres Serrano - Retrospective at the Moscow House of Photography (Russia, 2005), Dark Places at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (USA, 2006), Beautiful Suffering - Photography and the Traffic in Pain at the Williams College Museum of Art (USA, 2006), En Las Fronteras at the Villa Croce Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Genoa (Italy, 2006), A History of Sex at the Kulturen of Lund (Sweden, 2007), Andres Serrano at the Palais Fesch - Musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio (Corsica, 2014), Ainsi soit-il at the Château de Villeneuve, Fondation Emile Hugues in Vence (France, 2015), Redemption at the Fotografiska Museum of Stockholm (Sweden, 2015), Andres Serrano at the Void Derry of Londonderry (Ireland, 2016), Torture at the Collection Lambert, Avignon (France, 2016

Quien Andrés Serrano?
por Victoria Verlichak *

Sereno y seguro, Andrés Serrano sabe que los ecos de un escándalo lo preceden. A esta altura lo toma con humor, como un dato más de la estimulante realidad que vive y que por estos días lo trae a Buenos Aires desde Nueva York.

Con una obra sólida -que se aproxima a todo lo humano y navega entre extremos en búsqueda de la belleza- y cerca de 15 años de trabajo detrás suyo, Serrano logró reconocimiento internacional, superando largamente los 15 minutos de fama augurados a todos por Andy Warhol.

Cuando en 1987 a Serrano se le ocurrió fotografiar un crucifijo inmerso en un líquido color ámbar, jamás pensó que dos años después esa imagen encendería una feroz controversia. La piedra del escándalo fue una copia en cibachrome de su Piss Christ, de su serie Inmersiones. El crucifijo de madera y plástico sumergido en orina del propio artista ya había sido exhibido varias veces sin problemas. Per

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