SwissArtGallery · Documented identity

Ser Serpas

Born : 1995

Ser Serpas works with discarded objects and fabrics given by friends, questioning the value attached to materials. Educated at Columbia University, she transforms these resources into temporary assemblages that may return to the street after exhibition. Constructing her sculptures, held together by gravity, becomes a private performance.

In Hall at the Swiss Institute in 2023, painted torsos, photographs made with Rafik Greiss and notebook pages formed a presentation of bodies and traces. For rent at Vancouver’s Contemporary Art Gallery in 2026, she pressed canvases together while their paint was still wet, producing mirrored figures. This contact makes painting into an imprint, while a grey palette accompanies the dissolution of the bodies depicted.

This profile brings together identity references for Ser Serpas and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

1auction reference

1auction house

Sotheby’s

References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales.

Works recorded at auction

Sotheby’s · Lot 58

Untitled

Ser Serpas b. 1995 Untitled acrylic on paper, in two parts each: 29,5 x 19,5 cm (unframed); 34 x 24 cm (framed) Executed in 2019.

Catalogue period : 2023-06-02 — 2023-06-09

Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed

Estimate : 6000 – 8000 CHF

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Sources and references

SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Profile updated : 2026-10-24