José Antonio Serna Ramos (Alicante, 1927 – Valencia, 1 January 2011) was a Spanish painter and cartoonist. He signed some of his comics with pseudonyms such as Jiaser, Jia or Serna.1 As for his career as a painter, he is associated with the last School of Paris formed by Spanish painters of the 20th century.2

He was “a critically acclaimed artist and very versatile in his painting”.2 His artistic works are based on abstract painting and surrealism, techniques he learned when he settled in Paris, France, in the 1950s.3 In many of his works Serna Ramos reflects aspects and forms typical of mysticism.
He studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia (1945-1948) and at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia (1945-1948).
(1945-1948) and at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Barcelona (1953-1955).

In 1956 he travelled to Paris (France) to continue his studies and artistic training. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1956-1957), and also attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris (1958-1960).

He illustrates comic series such as Tica, Gulliver, Bicot, Dorothée (from the Bicot gang). At the same time, he holds the following exhibitions:

1962 Royale Art Gallery (Paris) 1963, 1964 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris 1964 Exhibition Annex to the Paris Biennale. Requiem Group. Raspail Gallery.
1969 Salon des Antiquaires, Paris.
1972, 1974, 1975 Salon des Independants, Paris.
1975 Salon d’Hiver, Paris.
He makes theatre sets in Paris, and has worked as artistic director for Éditions Azur.
artistic director for Éditions Azur in Paris. In 1974, T.V.E. report from Paris.
Paris.

In 1975 he returns to Spain, with his wife Chantal and his children Raquel Serna Pichat, Gala Serna Pichat and Sara Serna Pichat, and Esdras Serna Pichat, Baruc Serna Pichat, the two twins also following in the footsteps of their father as well as their maternal great-grandfather, engraver painter Andrés Charles
coppier, settling in Barcelona. There he worked for Editorial Bruguera
and created several characters, among them, Cucaracho, Maff and Osso, Pepe
Trola, Tica with scriptwriters such as Julio Fernández and Jaume Ribera.

In 1975, he began his collaboration with Yps in Germany and Spanish Television (TVE) made another report on the artist from Barcelona. He also takes part in the following exhibitions:

1979 Anti-imperialist Travelling Exhibition at the Valencia City Hall.
1986 Selected in the 7th Call for Plastic Arts of the Alicante Provincial Council.
Provincial Council of Alicante.
1986 Selected in the Arts of Valdepeñas, Madrid.
1988 Exhibition subsidised by the City Council of Valencia at the
Fine Arts Circle of Valencia. Exhibition at the Sala de Cultura de Altea
in Alicante.
1993 Exhibition at the M. Blanchard Art Gallery, Alicante.
1996 Exhibition in the Juana Francés Hall of the Valencian Department of Culture and the Eusebio Sempere Centre, Alicante.
2000 Exhibition at the Muro art gallery, Valencia.
2003 Collective exhibition “Panorama 2003” Muro Gallery, Valencia.
2004 Collective exhibition in gallery 11, Alicante.
2007 Collective exhibition at the Muro art gallery, Valencia.
2008 Retrospective exhibition at the Castillo Santa Bárbara in Alicante, promoted by the
by the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community. More than 15000
visits!
2010 INDIVIDUAL in CONSELLERIA DE JUSTICIA Y ADMINISTRACIONES PÚBLICAS
DELEGATION OF THE COMUNITAT VALENCIANA IN MADRID (exhibition opened
from October to the end of January 2011.

His pictorial work can be found in various collections: Rothschild,
WeisWellwe, Waterman, Offenstat, Hellman (all from the United States),
Martin Ferrand, Castelló, Rovira, Oltra, and others in Spain, as well as in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Scotland
Germany, Belgium, Italy, Scotland, Scotland, Holland and Portugal (Museu D’Ovar).