Andres Serrano (b. 1950)
Andres Serrano (b. 1950)

Piss Christ

Details
Andres Serrano (b. 1950)
Piss Christ
Cibachrome print mounted on Plexiglas
40 x 30in. (101.6 x 76cm.)
Executed in 1987. This work is number four from an edition of ten.
Provenance
Stux Gallery, New York
Literature
D. Kuspit, "Objects and Bodies: Ten Artists in Search of Interiority", Awards in the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, p. 13
R. Johnson, "Storm Over 'Art' Photo of Christ", The New York Post, May 12, 1989, p. 6
R. Atkins, "Stream of Conscience", The Village Voice, May 30, 1989, vol. 34, no. 22, pp. 87-88 (illustrated)
P. Finnegan, "Bearing the Cross: An Interview with Andres Serrano", Contemporanea, No. 22, November 1990, pp. 32-35
G. R. Denson, "John Miller and Andres Serrano. 'Bad Boy' Sublimination", Contemporanea, No. 22, November 1990, pp. 37-41
E. Heartney, "Andres Serrano: Challenging Complacency", Latin American Art, Winter 1990, pp. 37-39 (illustrated)
B. Wallis, Andres Serrano: Body and Soul, New York 1995 (illustrated)
A. Serrano, A History of Sex, Milano, 1998, p. 6 (illustrated)
U. Grosenick and B. Riemschneider, Art at the Turn of the Millenium, Cologne 1999, p. 461 (illustrated)
B. Wallis, Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America, New York 1999 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Winston Salem, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery; and Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Awards in the Visual Arts 7, May 1988-January 1989, p. 115 (illustrated; another print exhibited)
Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle; Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana; and Bregenz, Magazin 4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Andres Serrano: Works from 1986-1992, January-June 1994
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts; Houston, Contemporary Art Museum; and Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Andres Serrano Works 1983-1993, November 1994-February 1996, p. 63 (illustrated; another print exhibited)
The Netherlands, Groninger Museum, A History of Andres Serrano:A History of Sex, February-May 1997, p. 20 (illustrated; another print exhibited)

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