Antonio Serna is a Mexican-American artist and activist. His two main art projects are The Same Sun/Calendar and Documents of Resistance: Artists of Color Protest. As an activist, he is currently a member of NYC Museum Workers Organizing Committee, a by-and-for cultural worker advocacy group.
Antonio has been included in the following publications: Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, 2021; Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration, & Circulation in the Visual Arts, 2020; Art As Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice, 2018; Reflecting on Reconstructing Practice: Toward an Anti-racist Art & Design Field, 2018.
Previous activist efforts include contribution to the labor section of the People’s Cultural Plan. Co-organizer of the Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement via artists of color bloc, a cultural worker advocate group focusing on artists of color, and Arts & Labor’s Alternative Economies Working Group, an Occupy Wall Street activist group which organized “What Do We Do Now?”, the first alternatives economies fair and resource guide for artists in NYC. Through these and other autonomous collectives he promotes self-organized cultural events, research, education, and artist-as-activist interventions.
Originally from Texas, Antonio Serna holds a Masters in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, and a BFA from Parsons School of Art.
Website: www.antonioserna.com