Serena Bocchino has been recognized by many art institutions for her work and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the PS1/MOMA International Studio Residency, the Artists Space/Artists Grant, the Art Matters Grant, the Brodsky Center Printmaking Residency and the Basil Alkazzi Award, USA. The New Jersey State Council on the Arts has granted her Fellowships in both Painting and Drawing.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York featured Bocchino’s paintings and process in a film documentary by Monica Scharf, which won "Most Inspirational Film" at The New York Film Festival. From 1989-2013 Bocchino’s work has been the subject of six films. Bocchino’s exhibitions have received critical attention from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artnews, Art in America, Newsday the San Francisco Art Examiner, ArtCritical, On Verge magazine and the Star Ledger. In 2015, the first comprehensive monograph was released and authored by art historian, Lisa A. Banner, art writer/poet, Jonathan Goodman and Chinese Art Specialist, Lily Zhang. Kathleen Goncharov, Curator of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, wrote the Introduction.
During the summer of 2017, Serena Bocchino participated in an international exhibition at the Taoxichuan Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). The Museum has recently acquired two sculptures, one site-specific installation and one painting by Bocchino for their permanent collection. The Nicolaysen Art Museum has acquired two of Bocchino’s paintings and the site specific suspended sculpture that she created during her mini residency at the NIC. After Bocchino’s solo exhibition at The Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco, in 2022, the Museo acquired two of Bocchino's paintings for their permanent collection.
An all-inclusive film documentary about Bocchino and her work is currently in production with a planned release date of 2023, during her solo exhibition at the Ivy Brown Gallery in New York.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art in Embassies Program, Lima Peru
Art in Embassies Program, Washington DC
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus NJ
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Duff & Phelps, Chicago, IL
Forrester Morrison, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments Harborside 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
Lotus Museum, Bejing, China
McKinsey & Co. Incorporated, New York,NY
Moelis Int. New York, NY
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco CA
National Museum, Gdansk, Poland
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
SmithsonianIrma and Bill Seitz Collection,WashingtonD.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, NJ
Taoxichuan Art Museum of CAFA, Jingdezhen,China
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, New Brunswick, NJ
International Private Collections
