Andres Serrano

Piss Christ

Cibachrome® print, 101,1 x 69,9 cm

1987

Incident:

1989. New York.

2011. Collection Lambert space, Avignon.

2012. Galeria Edward Tyler Nahem, New York.

2015. Photolux Festival, Lucca.

The piece, which is part of a series of portraits of objects immersed in the artist’s own urine, has been attacked on several occasions. In 1997, it was damaged with a hammer in Australia. In 2011, Catholic activists attacked it with a screwdriver in Avignon. In 2012, it caused protests in New York. In 2015, it was excluded from an exhibition in Lucca (Italy) for being too provocative.

Biography:

Andres Serrano (New York, 1950) is an internationally renowned American photographer of Honduran and Afro-Cuban origin. He is known for his large-scale portraits and photographs of corpses. He is a member of the National Academy of Design in New York and was awarded the medal of the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.