Solo Shows
(Upcoming) 2025: Harkawik Gallery, New York
March 2023: ARCO Contemporary Art Fair. El Cultural magazine. Madrid, Spain
March 2022: ARCO Contemporary Art Fair. El Cultural magazine. Madrid, Spain
July-September 2020: Galería Arte Plus, Salamanca.
June 2019: Galería Arte Plus, Salamanca.
Collections
Beth DeWoody Collection
Weissman Family Collection
Guillermo Serrano Amat
Scammers and psychics, pizza gluttons, ecstatic musicians. Faces pushed so near to the foreground they become monstrous landscapes, backgrounds crowded with turbulent detail. This is the world I paint, working entirely from memory and my overcrowded imagination.
My approach is akin to the "Esperpento", a literary movement that started at the dawn of the 20th century in Spain. Its founder, Valle-Inclán, defined it as a classical tragedy played by ridiculous and deformed heroes. Film noir cinema also feeds my imagination, along with the grotesque comic vision of R. Crumb. But as much as my characters seem perverse and distorted, my intention is never dismissive. I identify with these people; I believe in them.
In each painting, I create a film-like narrative world that retains consistency and specificity of detail. Lately, most are based on the light and social geography of Red Hook Brooklyn, a neighborhood I first discovered only two years ago, soon after moving to New York. By highlighting the grotesque and dismal aspects of daily life there, I delve into the passions that disjoint our quotidian experience. I believe it is in absurd moments that our deepest nature is most visible.
Awards
President’s Scholar Award. New York Academy of Art, 2022-2023
David Schafer Artists of Excellence Scholarship. New York Academy of Art MFA 2022-2023, 2023-2024
Drawing Award XVII Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, 2019
Drawing Award XVI Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, 2018
1st Prize Concurso de Pintura de la Academia Artium Peña, 2017
Painting Award XV Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, 2017
Drawing Award XIV Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, 2016
Painting Award XII Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, 2014
Group Shows
2024: An Average Comet. Harkawik Gallery. New York City
2024: American Realism Today. West Broadway Gallery. New York City
2024: The Salon at the 13th Storey. Loft Projects NYC. New York City
2024: New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition. Forum Gallery. New York City
2023: AXA Art Price Exhibition. New York Academy of Art. New York City
2023: Backyards. Springbreak Art Fair. New York City
2023: Blurry Vision. Highside Workshop. Brooklyn
2023: Summer Exhibition. New York Academy of Art. New York City
2023: Metamorphosis. The Living Gallery. Brooklyn
2021-2022: Galerie Artmundi. Paris, France
2018: PAC’s collective exhibition of Postal Art. Estampa Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid
2018: 85 Salón de Otoño. Casa de Vacas, Madrid
2018: 53 Premio de Pintura Reina Sofía. Casa de Vacas, Madrid
2018: World Press Cartoon 2018, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.