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
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
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, (catalogue)
1985   "5 Artists/5 Schools" Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1985   "Aqui" Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California (catalogue)
1984   "Sunshine and Shadow" Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California (catalogue)
1983   "Miles Above" Otis/Parsons Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
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 (catalogue)
1978   "Ancient Roots/New Visions" Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barndall Park, CA (catalogue)
1978   "Visions Nuevas" California State University San Bernandino, CA