1. Andres Serrano's Piss Christ is an amber-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine.
14 Facts About Andres Serrano
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Andres Serrano created the artwork for the heavy metal band Metallica's Load and Reload albums.
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Andres Serrano is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background, and was raised as a strict Roman Catholic.
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Andres Serrano studied from 1967 to 1969 at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, yet is considered to be a self-taught photographer.
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Andres Serrano worked as an assistant art director at an advertising firm, before creating his first work in 1983.
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Andres Serrano's work has been exhibited in diverse locations around the world including the Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City, World without End, and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre in London, Body and soul.
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Andres Serrano usually makes large prints of about 20 by 30 inches.
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Andres Serrano has shot an array of subject matter including portraits of Klansmen, morgue photos, and pictures of burn victims.
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Andres Serrano went into the New York City Subway with lights and photographic background paper to portray the bedraggled homeless, as well as producing some rather tender but sometimes decidedly kinky portraits of couples.
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Andres Serrano directed a video for industrial metal group Godflesh, "Crush My Soul".
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Andres Serrano adopted the alter ego "Brutus Faust" to create the full-length album Vengeance Is Mine in July 2010.
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Bad Moon Rising consists entirely of footage Andres Serrano compiled from several short films by John Santerineross.
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In 2013, Andres Serrano made a work of art called Sign of the Times by collecting 200 signs from homeless people in New York City, usually paying $20 for each sign.
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Andres Serrano initially photographed homeless individuals in the city in 1990 for a series of studio-style portraits titled Nomads.