Serge earned his MFA with distinctions from the University of Arizona and a BA in sociology from Vassar College.
He has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Galerie Friedrichshain (Berlin), The Lishui Museum (China), FrenchTrotters (Paris), The Phoenix Museum of Art, The Vision Gallery (Arizona), The Ucross Gallery (Wyoming), Andrew Smith Gallery (Tucson), The Tucson Museum of Art, and The Leica Gallery (Tokyo and NYC), among many other international exhibitions. His work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and The Museum of the City of New York.
Serge won Special Recognition from The Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize out of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. He has also been a Critical Mass finalist and has received awards from PDN, The Magenta Foundation, American Photo Magazine, Curate NYC, and The Photo Review.
Serge has received grants from The Arizona Commission on the Arts, The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, and the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Arts from Vassar College.
Serge's photographs are part of “The Shape of Time” (2024) exhibit at the Ucross Gallery in Wyoming curated by Keith Davis. And two of his images are part of “Wild Visions” (2022) published by Yale University press and authored by Mark Klett, Ben Minteer, and Steven Pyne.
He has taught at the International Center of Photography (NYC), the University of Arizona, Tohono O’odham Community College and Pima Community College.
Serge has attended artist residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Jentel, VCCA, AS220, and was a participant in The Eddie Adams Workshop.
His magazine photography has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Life, Stern (Germany), ESPN The Magazine, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Marie Claire and Leica Fotografie International among many others.
Serge lives in Tucson and leads the portfolio review program for LensCulture Inc. in addition to providing private consultation for photographers and other artists.
When not at his desk, he can be found backpacking and photographing somewhere deep in the desert wilderness.
