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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Serena Bocchino is an artist whose themes include the visual interpretations of American jazz and the energies of the urban landscape. She is inspired by jazz and the spiritual aspects of music. Barry Schwabsky of the New York Times, in a full-page review of her work, stated: "Part of the pungency of her paintings is the way they insinuate half-forgotten sights and sounds into a vividly immediate contest... The feeling that within these paintings everything is in transition, that none of their elements have become too strictly defined, may be exactly what keeps them fresh."Ms. Bocchino has a Masters Degree from New York University. She has received recognition from many institutions, including New York City's Artists Space, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper have awarded Ms. Bocchino Fellowship grants. The New Jersey State Council on the Arts has recognized and awarded her in both painting and drawing. Her work is represented in public, private and corporate collections around the world. ABOUT THE WORK
New York City galleries began showing Serena Bocchino's work in 1985. Since then U.S. and international galleries and museums, such as, Exhibit A [Soho, NY], Art Haus San Francisco [CA], Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd. [Chelsea, NY], Sears/Peyton [Chelsea, NY], the State Museum [Trenton, NY], Princeton University [Princeton, NJ], Studio Bocchi [Rome, Italy], Galerie du Tableau [Marseilles, France], have featured Bocchino's work in solo and group exhibitions. Bocchino's paintings and drawings are abstract entities translating the compositional, spontaneous and rhythmic qualitites of music into a two-dimensional form. 
Serena Bocchino's studio in Hoboken, NJ.
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AWARDS
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| 2002 | New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award
Rutgers University Printmaking Fellowship, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 1994 | Trenton City Museum Award, Trenton, NJ
Artist in Education - (AIE) NJSCA, Trenton NJ |
| 1990 | The Basil H. Alkazzi Award, USA
Artists Space/Artists Grant |
| 1989 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Nomination, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Artists Grant, Art Matters Inc. |
| 1988 | Artists Space/Artists Grant |
| 1987 | Studio Fellowship, International Studio Program, PS1 Museum
Finalist for the Prix de Roma |
| 1985 | New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award |
| 1980 | Wroxton College Academic Scholarship, Oxfordshire, England |
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EDUCATION
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| 1985 | Master of Arts, New York University, New York, NY |
| 1982 | Bachelor of Arts, Honors College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
Thesis: A Study of Painting Techniques |
| 1982 | Art Research Sabbatical: Moscow, Leningrad, Suzdal, Vladmir |
| 1980 | Wroxton College, Fine Arts Concentration, Oxfordshire, England |