AZ/NM
Yvette Serrano is a multidisciplinary artist from Santa Fe, NM. Her work draws references from the Southwest and speaks on the systems of power, policies, and violence that continues to displace people and challenge our relationship to land and memory. She obtained her BFA in Communication Design from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and is currently an MFA candidate at Arizona State University.
Education
2024 MFA (pending), Intermedia Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ,
(expected May 2024)
2018 BFA, Communication Design,
Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
Awards/Fellowships
2022 The CHARLA Fund, US Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), USA
2022 Culture Connects Impacts Mini Grant, Santa Fe Arts Commission, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Artist Opportunity Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2019 Grant recipient, Fulcrum Fund Grant, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2018 Story Maps Fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Exhibitions
2023 The Galbut Prize, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
2022 When The Dogs Stop Barking, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2021 Homeland [In]security, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2021 The Art Grads, Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2021 A World Without Prisons..., #FreeThemAll Billboards, Fronteristxs, Los Lunas, NM
2020 Everyday Atrocities, Provacateur Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Voces Del Viento, Windows of the Future, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
(in Collaboration with Kemely Gomez)
2019 Peripheral Shelters, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2018 In the Ruins of the Anthropocene, Ellsworth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Story Maps Fellowship Exhibition, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Centennial, Etiquette, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Mirror Box, Form & Concept, Santa Fe, NM
2018 The Art of Being, Gathering of Queer Nations III, Corpus Arts, Albuquerque, NM.
2017 Outdoor Vision Fest, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Totally Unfair! Southwest Annex Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (Juror: Claude Smith,
Exhibitions Manager, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM)
Residencies
2020 Santa Fe Community Screen Printing, Santa Fe, NM
Curator/ Organizer
2021 shoutout to nostalgia, The Annex, Santa Fe, NM
2018 No Signal, Santa Fe, NM
2017 No Signal, Santa Fe, NM
Publications
Lynn Trimble, “Finding Water in the West,” Southwest Contemporary, March 03, 2023.
Edgar Picazo Merino , “Resisting Superficial Narratives About the US-Mexico Border,” Hyperallergic, December 13, 2022.
JC Gonzo, “An Artist’s Summer,” Santa Fe Reporter, June 08, 2022.
Shane Tolbert, “In the Ruins of the Anthropocene,” The Magazine, January 30, 2019.
Jordan Eddy, “Mapping the Divide,” Santa Fe Reporter, November 27, 2018.
Alicia Inez Guzmán, “No Signal,” Santa Fe Reporter, October 24, 2017.
Lectures
Highlands University, NM
Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
Collections
Press of the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM
University of Denver, Denver, CO