Serena Perrone (born 1979) is an American artist and

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. Her work is included in the collections of the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

and the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 100 ...

Career

Perrone was born in St. Louis Missouri and spent summers in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. Her family is art involved; her father was a professor, her mother was an art teacher, and her step father was a cinematographer. She earned her

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Southern Illinois University Southern Illinois University is a system of public universities in the southern region of the U.S. state of Illinois. Its headquarters is in Carbondale, Illinois. Board of trustees The university is governed by the nine member SIU Board of Tr ...

. She would later earn her

Masters of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts adm ...

in Printmaking from the

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

. After graduation, she moved to

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

. Once in Philadelphia, Perrone began working with the Cade Tompkins Projects which helped her art work gain attention. In 2016, Perrone was hired by

PrattMWP College of Art and Design The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) is a regional fine arts center founded in 1919 and located in Utica, New York. The institute has three program divisions: *Museum of art *Performing arts *School of art Museum of art The museum ...

and later worked as a visiting critic at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the following years, she began teaching courses at Rhode Island School of Design and was nominated for a Pew Fellowship. In 2017, she was one of three artists selected to display a solo exhibit at

The Print Center The Print Center is a nonprofit gallery located in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Originally known as The Print Club, the gallery's mission is to "encourage the growth and understanding of photography and printmaking Printmaking is the ...

in Philadelphia.

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the

, the

, and

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egypt ...

. In 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired Perron's print titled "A Volcano Pilgrim in Exchange for Fire."

References

1979 births Living people Artists from St. Louis 20th-century American women artists Rhode Island School of Design alumni Southern Illinois University alumni 21st-century American women {{US-artist-stub