Antonio Serna

Antonio Serna

Constructions/Collage - Graphic Artist - Media Arts - Media/Visual Communications - Mixed Media Artist - Multi-Disciplinary - Multiple Art Forms - New Media/Technology - Other - Painter - Photographer - Sculptor - Teaching Artist/Instructor - Visual Arts - visual archival research

antonio@muserna.org

Website: https://www.antonioserna.com

   8811 Palm Beach Street, San Antonio, TX, 78211

Antonio Serna is a Mexican-American artist, visual researcher, and educator currently living and working in San Antonio, TX. His work focuses on the intertwined relationships between visual culture, socio-political history, and personal narratives. His two most recent studio projects are The Same Sun/Calendar, a multimedia meditation on deep time and place, and Documents of Resistance which focuses on the history of art and activism of artists of color. He has exhibited in New York, Texas, Las Vegas, Spain, Mexico, Berlin, Croatia, and Taiwan.

Antonio's art projects and collaborative work have been included in the following books: Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, Duganne, Erina and Abigail Satinsky, (Eds.), Inventory Press, 2022. Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest by Laura Raichovich, Verso Books, 2021. Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration, & Circulation in the Visual Arts by Caroline Woolard, Susan Jahoda, BFAMFAPHD. New York: Pioneer Works Press. 2020. Art As Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art by Gregory Sholette, Chloe Bass, Social Practice Queens. New York: Allworth Press, 2018. Reflecting on Reconstructing Practice: Toward an Anti-racist Art & Design Field by Lauren Willaims. Pasadena, CA : Antiracist Classroom/ArtCenter, 2018

Antonio Serna studied art in New York City and Amsterdam. He holds a Master in Fine Arts from The City University of New York, Brooklyn College, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Art. He has taught in the Art & Design programs at Parsons School of Art and Brooklyn College.

Antonio is currently building an art archive of printed material and historical ephemera by and for artists of color.