BIO
Ana Serrano is a first-generation Mexican American and is inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities. She is best known for creating work that references the built environment using brightly-colored cardboard and paper. While her work highlights the socio-cultural and architectural elements of urban life found in Latino neighborhoods all across the US, she is very much inspired by her hometown of Los Angeles, California. She is especially captivated with how residents alter and adorn their dwellings, as well as the connections between plant life and man-made constructions.
Ana Serrano was born in Los Angeles, California. She earned her BFA with Honors degree from Art Center College of Design (2008). She has exhibited her work in solo and group museum exhibitions, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Vincent Price Art Museum, National Museum of Mexican Art and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Her work is held in private and public collections, including the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the AltaMed Art Collection. Her work has been featured in the magazines Artillery Magazine and American Craft, and in a number of design books including Juxtapoz: Handmade (cover, Berkeley; Gingko Press, 2009) and In the Company of Women (Artisan Press, 2016). She is currently represented by Bermudez Projects in Los Angeles, CA. Serrano lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
CV
Born in Los Angeles, CA 1983
Lives & works in Portland, OR
EDUCATION
BFA with Honors, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2008
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 A Sense of Place, Bermudez Projects (NELA), Los Angeles, CA
2018 La Yarda, Bermudez Projects (NELA), Los Angeles, CA
2018 Homegrown, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2013 A Daydreamer's Street, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA
2013 Living Walls, Sarratt Gallery, Nashville, TN
2012 Pretty Monumental, University Art Gallery at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
2011 Salon of Beauty, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX (catalogue)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Counter Mapping, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2021 Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration, Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Construyendo Puentes/Building Bridges, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX (catalogue)
2017 The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
2017 Emigdio Vasquez and El Proletariado de Aztlan, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA (catalogue)
2016 Southland, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
2015 Somewhere over el Arco Iris: Chicano Landscapes; 1971 - 2015, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2015 The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
2014 5th Chicana/o Biennial, MACLA, San Jose, CA
2014 This is Not a Self-Portrait, CSUN Art Gallery, Northridge, CA
2014 Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Pop to the Rescue, MACLA, San Jose, CA
2012 Crossing Cultures: Ethnicity in Contemporary America, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
2011 Mapping Another L.A., Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
2009 Giant Robot Biennale 2, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Papershapers, curated by Eric Nakamura, Scion Installation Space, Culver City, CA
2009 Emergency Landing, Tropico de Nopal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Ofrendas, Tropico de Nopal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 East of Eden, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Hollywood, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, 2017, Exhibition catalogue.
My Barrio: Emigdio Vasquez and Chicana/o Identity in Orange County, 2017, Exhibition catalogue.
"Coming Through," American Craft: Vol 77 No 4, August/September 2017. 96.
In the Company of Women, Artisan Press, New York, NY, 2016
Annie Werbler, "What's In Your Toolbox: Ana Serrano," Design Sponge (blog), December 14, 2015.
Melody Soto, "Ana Serrano creates worlds of Cardboard and Paper," KCET's Artbound, May 2, 2014.
Ebony Porter, "Ana Serrano: Salon of Beauty," Literal, Latin American Voices: Issue 27, Winter 2011. 30-35.
Latino-Gráfico: Visual Culture from Latin America, Gestalten, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Illustration Play 2: An Expedition to the Extraordinary, Viction:ary, Hong Kong
Juxtapoz Handmade, Gingko Press, Berkeley, CA, 2010
Lamono: Number 62, April 2010
American Style: August 2009
Beyond Architecture: Imaginary Buidings and Fictional Cities, Gestalten, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Step Inside Design Magazine: Volume 25 Number 1
COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
AltaMed Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Phyllis & Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University, Orange, CA
Copyright Ana Serrano © 2019 All Rights Reserved