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Alán Serna is a mixed media artist from Huanusco, Zacatecas now living and working in San Antonio, TX. In 2018, Serna earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2015 from the University of Texas at San Antonio where he is currently a professor of painting and drawing.
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MORE ABOUT THIS ARTIST
Artist Type: Media Arts: Graphic Artist; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Performing Arts: Band, Dancer, DJ, Spoken Word Artist, Vocalist/Singer
Artist Style: Literary: Documentary; Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Guest Speaker, Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Children, Instruction for Seniors, Multi-Day Artist Residency, Private Lessons, Workshop Presenter; Visual Art: Collage, Contemporary, Documentary, Environmental, Experimental, Expressionistic, Figurative, Functional, Icongraphic/Iconoclastic, Illustrative, Interactive, Landscape/Cityscape, Narrative/Historical, Nature/Wildlife, Pop, Portraiture, Representational, Site-Specific, Social Commentary
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
My practice centers around archiving and sharing my familial narratives. In my work, I utilize
traditional printmaking processes, mass-produced ephemera, alternative photography, and
installation to elaborate on nuances of my family’s personal and political immigrant narratives. I
source my imagery from family archives, old smartphone photographs, and screenshots from
Facebook and Google Earth. Referencing images from both personal and public sources allows
me to express the uniqueness of my experience while forming a community around shared
cultural experiences, processing assimilation and acculturation, relationships with labor, and
simultaneous feelings of nostalgia and displacement.
