Edgar Serrano

Edgar Serrano approaches painting as a contested surface where different visual languages collide and take on new meanings. Drawing from art history, embroidered patches, postcards, and vernacular graphics, he builds layered surfaces that move between trompe l’oeil illusion and expressive paint handling. In his Monsters & Masks series, the monster functions not as a symbol of horror, but as a condition formed through projection, fear, and misrecognition.

Serrano has held solo exhibitions at PM/AM (London), Brief Histories Gallery (New York), Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston), and Art & Zimt (Shanghai). A 2024–25 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grantee and 2022–23 NXTHVN Studio Fellow, he published his artist book Rumors of My Demise with Brief Histories Press in 2021. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Vogue México y Latinoamérica, and New York Magazine.