Ahna Serendren lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA in combined media from Hunter College in New York City, a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English literature and creative writing from UCLA. Color, texture and experimentation with non-traditional tools and materials play a central role in Ahna’s painting practice. Her current paintings include natural materials such as sand, charcoal and crushed rocks, combined with paint to create sculptural surfaces.
Selected exhibitions of Ahna’s work include Rip Current at The Yard in Brooklyn, A Collective Escape at Deanna Evans Projects in Brooklyn, Sun Sounds at Babycastles, New York City, and the Every Woman Biennial in Los Angeles. Her work resides in private collections in New York, Los Angeles and London.
Born in La Jolla, CA
Education
2017 - MFA in combined media, Hunter College, New York, NY
2014 - BFA in painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2002 - BA in English literature and creative writing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Rip Current, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - WOW MOM: Making Art / Making Life, Gallery 120710, Berkeley, CA
2024 - In Flux, Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA
2023 - Fruits of Labor, apexart, New York, NY
2021 - A Collective Escape, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2020 - (s)mother, Bethany Center for the Arts, Ossinig, NY
2019 - Slow Build, 1065 Mission, San Francisco, CA
2019 - Sun Sounds, Babycastles, New York, NY
2019 - Every Woman Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Rema Hort Mann Foundation Benefit Show, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 - Pro Magenta, Nancy Daum, Brooklyn, NY
2017 - Hunter MFA Thesis Exhibition, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
2016 - Rare Humdrum, Idio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 - Inside/Outside Upside/Down, Maldonado Projects, New York, NY
2015 - We Play So Hard at Being Human, Curating Contemporary
2015 - On Time, On Accident, Gallery 102, Washington, DC
2014 - A Seeing Thing, Will Brown Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Collections
Collection of Susan and Michael Hort, New York, NY
Collection of Gail and Stanley Hollander, Los Angeles, CA
Collection of Peter and Susan Hargrave, London, UK