Andres Serrano was born in New York (United States) in 1950. He lives and works in New York. After graduating in 1969 from the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York (United States), Andres Serrano became one of the most internationally acclaimed contemporary artists.

Among his most important solo exhibitions are: Andres Serrano - Retrospective at the Moscow House of Photography (Russia, 2005), Dark Places at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (United States, 2006), Beautiful Suffering - Photography and the Traffic in Pain at the Williams College Museum of Art (United States, 2006), En Las Fronteras at Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa (Italy, 2006), A History of Sex at Kulturen in Lund (Sweden, 2007), Andres Serrano at the Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio (Corsica, 2014), Ainsi soit-il at Château de Villeneuve, Fondation Emile Hugues in Vence (France, 2015), Redemption at the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm (Sweden, 2015), Andres Serrano at Void Derry in Londonderry (Ireland, 2016), Torture at Collection Lambert in Avignon (France, 2016), Ainsi soit-il at Collection Lambert in Avignon (France, 2016), Uncensored Photographs at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels (Belgium, 2016), Andres Serrano at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (France, 2016), Andres Serrano at the Petit Palais in Paris (France, 2017), Andres Serrano - Revealing Reality at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam (The Netherlands, 2017), Torture at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh (United Kingdom, 2018), The Game - All Things Trump at ArtX in New York (United States, 2019), Infamous at NeueHouse, Los Angeles, and Fotografiska New York (USA, 2020), Torture by Andres Serrano - A/political Project at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Athens (Greece, 2021), and Infamous at Fotografiska Stockholm (Sweden, 2022).

He has also participated in numerous significant group exhibitions, including: Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography at Tate Modern in London (England, 2008), Traces du Sacré at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (France, 2008), Autour de l'extrême at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (France, 2010), Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (United States, 2011), NYC 1993 at the New Museum in New York (United States, 2013), Le Mur at La Maison Rouge in Paris (France, 2014), Slip of the Tongue at Punta della Dogana, part of the Pinault Collection, in Venice (Italy, 2016), Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (United States, 2016), Nothing but Blue Skies at the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles (France, 2016), LOVE STORIES during PHOTAUMNALES 2016 in Beauvais (France, 2016), An Incomplete History of Protest at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (United States, 2018), Show Your Wound at the Dom Museum in Vienna (Austria, 2018), and Incarnations - African Art as Philosophy at the Palais des Beaux-Arts - BOZAR in Brussels (Belgium, 2019).

Andres Serrano’s works are held in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (United States), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (France), Huis Marseille (The Netherlands), the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra (Australia), the Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (Croatia), the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen (Denmark), the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain in Bordeaux (France), Collection Lambert in Avignon (France), the Institute of Contemporary Art in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (Israel), the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City (Mexico), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (United States), the Brooklyn Museum (United States), the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (United States), the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (United States), the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (United States), the Groninger Museum (The Netherlands), and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington (United States).