248 - SANTIAGO SERRANO (Toledo, 1942).

SANTIAGO SERRANO (Toledo, 1942). “Series Eight I,” 1991. Vinyl-based pigments on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Dated and titled on the back. Dimensions: 71 x 100 x 5 cm. A painter and printmaker, Santiago Serrano trained in Madrid and Paris, receiving scholarships such as the Juan March Scholarship and one from the Ministry of Culture. He made his solo debut at the Amadís Gallery in Madrid, and that same year he exhibited in Buenos Aires with a solo show held at the Snob Gallery. Since then, he has held major solo exhibitions in Spain and Switzerland, at venues such as the Fúcares (1979), the Egam (since 1983), the Soledad Lorenzo (1992), and the Juana Mordó (1994) in Madrid, as well as the Joan Prats in Barcelona (1988), and in museums such as the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid (1981), the Camón Aznar in Zaragoza (2001), and the Városi Müvészeti in Győr (Hungary, 2003). He has also participated in art fairs such as Art Basel and ARCO, as well as in numerous group exhibitions held in Spain, Serbia (Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade, 1980), Egypt (Cairo Biennale, 1992), Saudi Arabia (Twaig Palace in Riyadh, 1993), Ireland (Huglane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1995), Mexico (Museo de la Estampa in Mexico City, 1998), Brazil (Espaço Cultural 508, Brasília, 1998), and other countries in Europe, North Africa, and Latin America. He has also taught workshops and classes at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the University of Salamanca, and the Marcelino Botín Foundation. Santiago Serra’s work is currently represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the IVAM, the Patio Herreriano, the National Library, the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca, the Municipal Museum of Madrid, the Museum of Fine Arts in Vitoria, the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, the CAAM in Las Palmas, the Royal Academy of San Fernando, the Juan March Foundation, the Municipal Art Museum of Győr, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Nîmes (France), the Marcelino Botín Collection, the BBVA Foundation, and other major national and international collections.