Best known for Piss Christ, his 1987 image of a crucifix submerged in a glass of his own urine, photographer Andres Serrano is no stranger to controversy. The photograph raised the ire of Senator Jesse Helms and launched a national debate over federal funding for the arts when it was known Serrano had received $15,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for the piss-soaked work. More recently, Serrano was in the headlines when a group of alleged neo-Nazis entered a Swedish gallery and destroyed photographs from his “History of Sex” series, featuring photos of various sex acts.

This September, Serrano opens two shows concurrently at the Yvon Lambert gallery in New York and Paris. The appropriately titled exhibition, “Shit,” features brightly colored fecal photographs, from various animals and his self, christened with non-biblical names like, “Cute Shit, Evil Shit, Hieronymous Bosch Shit, Romantic Shit and Deep Shit.”

The show opens in New York on September 4th from 6 – 8 PM at Yvon Lambert Gallery (550 W 21st St, Manhattan) and stays up through October 4, 2008.

Photo of shit by Andres Serrano.