Underdog (two), 2013
About the artist
Siena works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing, and painting. He has participated in more than 100 solo and group exhibitions since 1981, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His work is part of many prestigious public and private collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Siena has received a number of grants and awards throughout his career, including the Eissner Artist of the Year Award from the Cornell Council for the Arts at Cornell University Award (2009) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2000). In 2004, he completed an artist-in-residency program at Yaddo and was elected to their Board of Directors shortly thereafter. For more than ten years, Siena has lectured and taught at art institutions throughout the country. He has been represented by The Pace Gallery since 2004.
