Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano is an internationally acclaimed American artist whose work has been shown in major institutions in the United States and abroad. Serrano was born in 1950 in New York City. He attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1967 to 1969, where he studied painting and sculpture. Andres Serrano’s name, along with Robert Mapplethorpe’s, was at the crossroads of the 1989 Cultural Wars when Serrano’s photograph, “Piss Christ,” became the subject of a national debate on freedom of artistic expression and the public funding of controversial art. “Piss Christ”, an ethereal image of a crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine, remains the artist’s most controversial and misunderstood work. Serrano is represented by Nathalie Obadia Gallery.