Serena Bocchino

SERENA BOCCHINO is an American artist who began exhibiting her work in 1986 in the East Village, New York. In 1987, Bocchino was awarded a studio residency at MoMA PS1, during which the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Gianni De Michelis, invited Bocchino to have her first international solo exhibition in Rome, Italy. For the next several years, Bocchino received recognition from many art institutions that awarded her fellowships in both painting and drawing, including the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Artists Space, the Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation, Art Matters and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her subsequent domestic and international exhibitions were well received with reviews in the New York Times, Village Voice, ARTnews, Art in America and The New Yorker. Five films have been created about Bocchino’s work and process so far. Her first monograph, Serena Bocchino the Artist, was released in 2015.
Bocchino’s work focuses on the interpretation of music and movement in two- and three-dimensional forms. Bocchino has developed a unique pour method where she “draws” with paint poured from crushed cans and drizzled from sticks and paintbrushes. She combines gestural charcoal and graphite marks with stained paint areas to invest...

New York University, Graduate Program, MA
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Honors College, BA
Thesis: A Study of Painting Techniques
Mentored by Polish Abstract Colorist, Voy Fangor
Art Research Sabbatical: RUSSIA
Wroxton College, Oxfordshire, England

Solo Exhibitions:
2023Ivy Brown Gallery, New York, NY
2022Atelier Montez, Rome Italy
2022Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
2021Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
HEROES: Women Artists Who Influence and Inspire,
The Farmstead Arts Center, Basking Ridge NJ
2019 The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ