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Serena Bocchino

Serena Bocchino is an American Painter, Print Maker, and Sculptor. Bocchino 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 Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University 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.

Life and Education

Serena Bocchino was born in Engelwood, New Jersey to artist mother Lucia Confalone Bocchino. Serena Bocchino studied Painting with Arie Galles, and color theory with colorist, Voy Bangor. She studied Art and Humanities at Wroxton College, Oxfordshire, England. After graduating from the Honors College at Fairleigh Dickinson University with a Bachelor of arts and a published her Thesis: A Study of Painting Techniques. She received her masters degree from New York University in 1985. Bocchino is married to Stephen Keough.

Career

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. Most recently Bocchino work was on view as part of CONTEMPORARY X Miami Beach 2016.

Honors and Fellowships

Bocchino was recognized in both Painting and Drawing by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2002 and 1985. In 1989, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY; She was chosen for an International Studio Residency in 1987 at the PS1/MOMA Studio Residency Program, New York, NY. She was recognized in 2013 for an Excellence in the Arts Award, for Vision & Leadership.

Public Collections

Art in Embassies Program, Lima Peru
Art in Embassies Program, Washington DC
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus NJ
Duff & Phelps, Chicago, IL
Forrester Morrison, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, NJ
IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust, New York NY
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Warrenville,NJ
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
KPG Peat Marwick, Minneapolis, Minnesota
McKinsey & Co. Incorporated, New York,NY
Moelis Int. New York, NY
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
Nordstrom, Seattle, WA
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Pensare, Palo Alto, CA
Pfizer Inc, Morris Plains, NJ
Pfizer Inc, New York, NY
Plaid Brothers, San Francisco, CA
Price Waterhouse and Coopers, New York, NY
PWR, Washington D.C.
Redback Networks Inc. Sunnyvale, CA
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Smithsonian Museum, Irma and Bill Seitz Collection, Washington D.C.
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
The Paterson Art Museum, Paterson, NJ
The Prudential, Newark, NJ
The Brodsky Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Trenton State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Warburg Pincus Ventures Inc. New York, NY
Westcliff Realities, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Wildchild Inc. New York, NY
The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

External links

Official Website: www.serenabocchino.com

Featured Documentaries:

Fever Directed by Greg Smith, Produced by Greg Smith/Down the Line Productions; Edited by Jason Schuler/Awakened. Music by Peggy Lee
A Dream of Blue Co-Directed by Monica Sharf Inversion Films and Greg Smith; Produced by Down the Line Productions; Edited by David Leonard. Music by Pat Metheny. Awarded: 2009 Best Inspirational Short Documentary for USA and International by the NYIIFVF (New York International Independent Film and Video Festival) New York, NY.
Observer Highway Revisited Directed and Produced by Monica Sharf, Inversion Films, and Director of Photography: Thomas Moore, Edited by Rachel DeSario/Version 2 Editing,New York, NY. Music by Clifford Brown and Max Roach. Screened at the following venues: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, (AWARD) “Outstanding Short Films from International Film Festivals”NYC, TIMES SQUARE FILM FESTIVAL, SPONSORED by CBS Open Air Shorts on CBS Spectacular, New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, BROOKLYN, NY
Observer Highway: Portrait of Serena Bocchino Directed by Yvette Pineyro and Pavel Salek, Produced and Edited by Yvette Pineyro Wildchild Editorial, New York, Music by Peter Gabriel Screened at the following venues: PBS; Public Broadcast Systems, New York, NY Television, NJN (New Jersey Network), Trenton, NJ