Serena Korda

Since 2004 Serena Korda has been making public works, developed from encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories. Recently her work has focused on the development of invented traditions that highlight ritual in the everyday. Audiences are often encouraged to participate at some point in the process, creating collective experiences that focus on the forgotten and overlooked elements of the everyday.

Place of Birth

England

Education

2007-2009	Printmaking MA Royal College of Art
1998-2001	BA Fine, Middlesex University
1997-1998	Art Foundation, Middlesex University

Exhibitions and Performance events

2011	“Call me Ishmael” Parfitt Galery, London “Dirt:The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life” Wellcome Collection, London “Folk Variations” Radar, Loughborough “Spaces for the Imagination” Turner Contemporary, Margate
2010	“Started 10” Galerie Klatovy, Czech Republic “Decosa, Tradition Stockholm, keifer pin” Camden Arts Centre London “Town Hall Artworks, walkwalkwalk” Commission by Arts Admin for the Town Hall Hotel “There’s a Strange Wind Blowing” Tintype Gallery, London
2009	“The Event” Grand Union Project Space, Birmingham “The Library of Secrets” New Art Gallery Walsall “The Namer of Clouds Lived and Died Here” Museum 52, London “Start Point 2009” Galerie Klatovy, Czech Republic “Kiss of a Lifetime” Rouge Project Space, Manchester
2008	“The Wonder Book Lectures” Camden Arts Centre, London “B**K” London Print Studio, London “The Answer Lies at the End of the Line.” Art on the Underground, Stanmore Station “Crossword Convention”. Art on the Underground, Stanmore “The Library of Secrets”, The Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable “walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter Archive”, SpaceX, Exeter
2007	“walkwalkwalk: Stories from the Exeter Archive”, SpaceX, Exeter “E8” Transition Gallery,London “Intransit” Chelsea Physic Garden, London “The Library of Secrets” Whitstable Biennale
2006	“Look Again” The World’s End Estate, London “Frenzy” Metropole Galleries, Folkestone “walkwalkwalk” Camden Arts Centre, London “The Library of Secrets” The Great Eastern Hotel, London
2005	“Night Walk 1” Whitchaple London “Walk Walk Walk: an archaeology of the familiar and the forgotten” Design History Conference, London “Ceremony” The Pump House, London “Tattoo” The Customs House, South Shields “TEA” Camden Arts Centre, London “Playing Life” Elastic Residence, London “TEA” The Happy Sailor, London
2004	“Old Men’s Flesh” The Bow Festival, London “Love, Honour and Obey” The Crown Gallery, London “I can c my way home” SpaceX, Exeter

Awards

2009	Stanley Picker, Tutorship in Fine Art Printmaking, Kingston University
2009	Deutsche Bank Award
2005	Artsadmin Early Career Bursary
2002	ACAVA First Base

Residency

2010	Start Point, Galerie Klatovy, Czech Republic
2008	Cite Internationale des Art, Paris
2007-08	Whitstable Biennale
2005-06	Islington Green School, London

Educational Work

2009	Sessional Tutor, University of the Creative Arts, Canterbury Sessional Tutor, Fine Art Printmaking, Kingston University
2008	Cultureal Creative Partnerships
2007	Cultureal, Creative Partnerships
2006	Islington Green School, London Bow Arts Trust, Art Tutor
2005	Camden Arts Centre, Art Tutor Hounslow CIP, Creative mentor Islington Arts Centre, Art Tutor
2004	Camden Art Centre, Art Tutor Islington Arts Factory, Art Tutor
2003	Wandsworth Prison, Art Tutor Holloway Prison, Art Tutor

Publicity

The Times	Ken Russell Article, Making Art from Crosswords on the Underground
Guardian	Stephen Emms Article, Avant Garden of England, UK Art
The Guide	Exhibitions Jessica Lack
BBC Four	Time Shift Documentary “How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword”