Andres Serrano

Andres Serrano was born in 1950 in New York City (United States) to parents of Honduran and Cuban origin. Andres Serrano lives and works in New York City.

"I have never called myself a photographer. I studied painting and sculpture, and I consider myself an artist equipped with a camera. Everything I know about art I learned from Marcel Duchamp, who taught me that anything, including a photograph, can be a work of art."

Andres Serrano's works do not spare the viewer and do not shy away from controversy. By addressing social and societal issues in the United States, the artist paints a provocative portrait of rural middle America—and echoes the strict Catholic upbringing he received. Through series of photographs on sensitive topics such as religion, weapons, and sexuality, Serrano challenges conventions and directly questions the notion of the sacred.

The composition of Andres Serrano's works is figurative and theatrical. “I use photography as a painter uses his canvas,” he explains. His large-format photographs seek to provoke the viewer by staging Catholic blasphemies. The Passion of Christ, depicted in bodily fluids—as in the iconic Piss Christ—is one of the artist's favorite subjects.

The gold Crucifix ring, created in 2015 for Diane Venet and MiniMasterpiece, is the artist's first piece of jewelry. In 2025, a new version in partially blackened solid silver was released.