Raul Serrano

I spent my childhood in Mexico City. My father was an artist at the Academia San Carlos where, as a teenager, I attended classes with him. I moved to New York City to go to school in 1974 and stayed to pursue an art career. I showed at the Brooklyn Museum and numerous galleries and was awarded grants by the NEA, NYSCA, Jackson-Pollock, and Penny McCall foundations. In 1997, after a devastating studio fire, I could no longer afford workspace in New York City and moved upstate to the Hudson River Valley where I have been living and working ever since. My imagery is heavily imbued with symbolic meaning and metaphors. Nature, especially plants, plays a big part in my subject matter. Motion, suspension, and light on a solid object, convey a sense of emotion. Each of my artworks is unique and embodies an expression of my feelings, ranging from melancholy to exhilaration, and my surroundings.

Pratt Institute B.A 1977

Solo shows
2019 The Wired Gallery High Falls N.Y
2011 Alliance gallery Narrowsburg N.Y.
2001 Albany Center Gallery Albany N.Y.
2001 Dead End Cafe Liberty N.Y.
1999 French hotel Gallery Berkeley Cal.
1988 TNT Gallery Brooklyn N.Y

Selected group exhibitions
2015 I Catch the Pattern Langston Hughes Library
1987 Working in Brooklyn Brooklyn Museum
1987 House that Jack built Forman Gallery Hartwick
College New Jersey
1986 M-13 Gallery N.Y.