BIOGRAPHY
1955 Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, lives in Los Angeles, CA
1965 Immigrated to the United States
1978 Received B.F.A. from Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Received M.F.A. from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1985 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
1996 Sabbatical: One-year residence in Berlin, Germany
2000 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award Nominee
2004 Roswell Artist-in-residence, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2004 Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, Artist-in-residence, Westport Island, ME
2004 Point-of-View (Gallery Talk) on Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors exhibit at J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. December 2004
SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Luis Serrano: Landscape Paintings & Drawings. Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Pasadena, CA
2004 Primacy Through Experience. Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY
1998 Painting from Observation. Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1993 Recent Work. Mount San Jancinto College, San Jacinto, CA
1991 New Work. Dan Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Luis Serrano, Introductions 1990. Kay Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Luis Serrano. Los Angeles City College Campus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 I, The Spectator. Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Diurnal/Nocturnal Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Luis Serrano. Southwest College, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Drawing from Perception VIII. Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright University, Dayton, OH
2008 Hangin' Together. Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 A View From Here: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Landscapes. Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Pasadena, CA (Catalog)
2008 About Face: Portraiture Now. Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA
2007 Trees of Knowing. Arbons Art Center, New York, New York
2005 Fifth Annual American Landscape Exhibit. Maryland Fine Arts Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2005 American Drawing Biennial 8. Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
2005 The Main Project. Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Los Angeles, CA
2003 The Speculative Terrain: Recent View of the Southern California Landscape form San Diego to Santa Barbara. Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard; Riverside Art Museum, Riverside; Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Landscape 2003. California State University, Los Angeles Fine Arts Gallery
2002 Landscape. Los Angeles City College Campus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Unearthed: Contemporary Landscape. Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
2000 Drawings V. Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 The Drawing Group: An Emerging School of Los Angeles? Laband Art Gallery, Layola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1996 The Observed Object. Century Gallery, Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, CA
1995 Corpus Collosum. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 The Committed Image. Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, CA
1994 Cups. SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 The Way of Flesh. Mt. San Antonio College Gallery, Walnut, CA
1992 Chicano and Latino, Parallels and Divergence, One Heritage. Dan Saxon Gallery Los Angeles; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Kimberly Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1990 Still Life. Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1989 Of Nature and the Human Spirit. Dan Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Works on Paper. Mount Saint Mary's College, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Vinculos (Connections). Whittier College, Mendenhall Art Gallery, Whittier, CA, (catalog)
1985 5 Artists/5 Schools. Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1985 Aqui. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California (catalog)
1984 Sunshine and Shadow. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California (catalogue)
1983 Miles Above. Otis/Parsons Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1980 In a Major and a Minor Scale. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, CA
1980 Four Artists/Four Continents. William Grant Still Community Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
1979 IV Salon Nacional de Pintura. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Nucleo del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador
1978 First Biennial Juried Exhibition. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, CA (catalog)
1978 Ancient Roots/New Visions. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barndall Park, CA (catalog)
1978 Visions Nuevas. California State University San Bernandino, CA
