z. serena qiu is a textile & fiber artist

serena (they/them) lives and works in brooklyn, ny.

they are preoccupied by the limits of language to hold knowledge or grief, and the material presence of what we cannot know or recover. their hands make repetitive motions in their sewing, knitting, weaving in search of the shape & practice of diasporic & queer survival.

lately they have wondered at the relationships among repetition, memorization, punishment, madness, destruction. they are conducting ongoing observations of fiber’s tendencies to cling, to scatter, to fuss.

elsewhere, serena designs patterns for hand knitting, and was formerly a freelance art writer. they teach writing & art history & knitting.

serena received a ph.d. in art history from the university of pennsylvania (2022), and a b.a. in art history and english from duke university (2011).