Liliana Porter

Liliana Porter (born 1941) is a contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art.[1][2]

Liliana Porter
Born1941
Buenos Aires, Argentina
EducationUniversidad Iberoamericana
Alma materEscuela Nacional de Bellas Artes
Known forPhotography
Printmaking
Mixed media
Installation art
Video art
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
1980
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

Education and Teaching Experience

Porter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, but lives and works in New York. As a teenager, she attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, where she studied under Guillermo Silva Santamaria and Mathias Goeritz.[3] She returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires.[4] In 1964, she moved to New York City, where she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop with fellow artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo.[5] In 1974 she was a co-founder and etching instructor at Studio Camnitzer, an artist's residence studio near Lucca, Italy that welcomes artists working in all media.[6][7] After holding teaching positions at the Porter-Wiener Studio, the Printmaking Workshop, SUNY Purchase and State University of New York at Old Westbury, Porter became a professor at Queens College, City University of New York in 1991 and remained there until 2007.[7][8][9]

Artwork
50th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

Porter cites Luis Felipe Noe, Giorgio Morandi, Roy Lichtenstein, the Arte Povera group, and the Guerrilla Girls as influences on her work.[10] She has exhibited internationally, and currently lives and works in New York. She has twice created work for the MTA of New York City's Arts for Transit and Urban Design program—a program dedicated to creating public art for New York City Subway stations. In 1994, Porter created the mosaic series Alice: The Way Out, featuring imagery inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland for the 50th Street subway station.[11] In 2012, she collaborated with Uruguayan artist Anna Tiscornia[12] to create Untitled With Sky, a glass windscreen and glass mosaic seating for the Scarborough station.[13] Porter and Tiscornia are continuing their collaboration and will exhibit their new work in January 2013 at the Galería del Paseo in Montevideo, Uruguay.[7]

Porter's work has been featured in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Modern Art New York, TATE Modern (London), Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Tamayo (Mexico), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Boston Museum of Fine Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C.), Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, (Bogotá, Colombia) and more.[8]

Awards
  • Guggenheim Fellowship (1980)[8]
  • The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1985, 1996, 1999)[8]
  • NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Fellowship (1994)[8]
  • Professional Staff Congress-CUNY Research Award (awarded seven times between 1994–2004)[8]

Publications
  • Gainza, Maria (March 2004). "Liliana Porter: Centro Cultural Recoleta". Artforum. p. 190. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  • Sorkin, Jenni (4 April 2002). "Liliana Porter, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York". frieze 66. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24.
  • Bazzano-Nelson, Florencia (2008). Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation. Ashgate Publishing. Archived from the original on 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2010-11-11.

References
  1. Orosz, Demian. "La historia sin fin de Liliana Porter". Vos Argentina. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  2. Porter, Liliana. "Liliana Porter". lilianaporter.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  3. Giunta, Andrea (2009). A Conversation with Liliana Porter and Luis Camnitzer. Austin, TX: Blanton Museum of Art.
  4. "Liliana Porter Bio". Tamarind Intstitute. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
  5. "Liliana Porter". The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964-1970. Blanton Museum. Archived from the original on November 11, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
  6. "History of the Studio". Studio Camnitzer. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  7. "Liliana Porter Biography". Artists. Barbara Krakow Gallery. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  8. "Bio". Liliana Porter. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
  9. "Artists - LILIANA PORTER". Hosfelt Gallery. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  10. Tintori, Valentina. "Liliana Porter Interview". The Latin American Art Journal. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  11. "Arts for Transit and Urban Design". MTA.Info. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
  12. "Biography and CV". Anna Tiscornia. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  13. "Arts for Transit and Urban Design". MTA.info. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
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