Andres Serrano was born in 1950 in New York City. He attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1967, where he studied painting and sculpture.
Andres Serrano's name, along with Robert Mappletorpe's, was at the crossroads of the 1989 Cultural Wars when Serrano's photograph, "Piss Christ," became the subject of a national debate on freedom of artistic expression and the public funding of controversial art. "Piss Christ", an ethereal image of a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine, remains the artist's most controversial and misunderstood work.
Andres Serrano is an internationally acclaimed American artist whose work has been shown in major institutions in the United States and abroad. His work is in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, National Gallery of Australia, capc musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France; and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain among others. In 2018, Andres Serrano were honored with the insignia of the Chevalier of the French Order of Arts and Letters.