Serena Perrone

(b. St. Louis, MO, lives Atlanta, GA/Tusa, Sicily) As a dual US/Italian citizen who splits her time between the two, a large part of Perrone's practice aims at reconciling a tacit and circumspect desire to filter stories and landscapes through a reflexively nostalgic and mythic lens. Often taking cues from literature and art history, her multidisciplinary practice conveys a sense of wonder and trepidation when confronting the landscape and natural phenomena. She is drawn to their potent metaphoric and poetic potential in service of her narrative impulse and a desire to uncover hidden stories, preserve fleeting moments, and explore symptoms of dislocation. Placing emphasis on instances of contradiction, mystery and duality, her varied bodies of work are unified by the use of color and recurring symbols, relying heavily on process, workmanship, and decoration.

Notable exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Print Center in Philadelphia, The International Print Center New York, the Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Austin Texas, and Spring/Break Art Fair in New York. Notable residencies include the Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, C.R.E.T.A. Rome, the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venice, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Her work is collected by prominent institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Smith College Museum of Art, Swarthmore College, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress. She was nominated for a Pew Fellowship in 2017 and has received grants from South Arts, Idea Capital, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Santo Foundation, and the William J. Cooper Foundation.

Born in St. Louis, she is a dual-citizen and splits her time between the United States and Italy. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Printmaking, she lived for many years in Philadelphia and New York state before relocating to Atlanta in 2019. She is currently the Associate Professor and Head of Printmaking at Georgia State University in Atlanta and is the Director of Officina Stamperia del Notaio, an international multi-disciplinary artists' residency program in Sicily which she founded in 2015, which has hosted over 100 artists from 20 countries. She is a member of the artist collective Ground Floor Contemporary in Birmingham, Alabama and a contributor to the ongoing collaborative project Progetto Vicinanze, Italy. Her work is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, Rhode Island.