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.

Awards

2002	Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award Residency, Rutgers University Printmaking Fellowship, New Brunswick, NJ
1994	Trenton City Museum Award, chosen by Lois Dodd, 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

Teaching Experience

2005-Present	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Raritan Valley College, NJ
2005-Present	Professional Development Provider, Department of Education, State of New Jersey
2002-Present	Lecturer, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
2004-06	Lecturer, State University of New York, Rockland County, NY
2002-04	Advisor, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1997-98	Teacher, P.S.!, Long Island City, New York, NY
1997	Drew University NY Semester on Contemporary Art, Madison, NJ
1990-94	Adjunct Instructor, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
1995	Lecturer, New York University, New York, NY
1992	Lecturer, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
1990	Lecturer, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY

Additional Teaching Assignments

Rockland College,SUNY -Visiting Artist

PS1, Long Island City, NY-Visiting Artist

New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Panelist and Juror

Professional Development Provider, NJDED-Artist teaching Teachers

Education

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