Liliana Porter

Porter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, 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.{{cite book|last=Giunta|first=Andrea|title=A Conversation with Liliana Porter and Luis Camnitzer|year=2009|publisher=Blanton Museum of Art|location=Austin, TX|url=http://lilianaporter.com/individual.php?sectionId=9§ion=publications&pieceId=26&title=A%20Conversation%20with%20Liliana%20Porter%20and%20Luis%20Camnitzer¤tImage=NYGW_Conversation_LPorter_LCamnitzer_Guinta_p1.jpg&pageNo=1&orderBy=date}} She returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires.{{cite web|title=Liliana Porter Bio|url=http://tamarind.unm.edu/bios/porter_bio.html|publisher=Tamarind Intstitute|accessdate=14 October 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121215044206/http://tamarind.unm.edu/bios/porter_bio.html|archivedate=15 December 2012}} In 1964, she moved to New York City, where she co-founded the [https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/wrinkle/new-york-graphic-workshop New York Graphic Workshop] with fellow artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo.{{cite web|title=Liliana Porter |url=http://blantonmuseum.org/interact/NYGW/ |work=The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964–1970 |publisher=Blanton Museum |accessdate=14 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111065911/http://blantonmuseum.org/interact/NYGW/ |archivedate=11 November 2012 }} 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.{{cite web|title=History of the Studio|url=http://www.studio-camnitzer.com/about.shtml|work=Studio Camnitzer|accessdate=18 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504145633/http://www.studio-camnitzer.com/about.shtml|archive-date=4 May 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Liliana Porter Biography|url=http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/liliana-porter?bio|work=Artists|publisher=Barbara Krakow Gallery|accessdate=20 October 2012}} 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.{{cite web|title=Bio|url=http://lilianaporter.com/about.php?sectionId=10§ion=about&about=bio|work=Liliana Porter|accessdate=18 November 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://hosfeltgallery.com/index.php?p=artists&a=Liliana%20Porter |title=Artists – LILIANA PORTER |publisher=Hosfelt Gallery |date= |accessdate=13 January 2013}}

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Porter's work often focuses on themes of simulacrum, mass reproduction, entropy, and boundaries between image and reality.{{Cite news |last=Gainza |first=Maria |date=March 2004 |title=Liliana Porter: Centro Cultural Recoleta |work=Artforum International}}{{Cite book |last=Bazzano-Nelson |first=Florencia |title=Liliana Porter and the art of simulation |publisher=Ashgate |year=2008 |isbn=9780754664659 |location=Burlington, VT |pages=7–10}} She cites Luis Felipe Noe, Giorgio Morandi, Roy Lichtenstein, the Arte Povera group, and the Guerrilla Girls as influences on her work.{{cite web|last=Tintori|first=Valentina|title=Liliana Porter Interview|url=http://latinartjournal.com/liliana-porter-interview-contemporary-ar/|work=The Latin American Art Journal|accessdate=18 October 2012|archive-date=20 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120225503/http://latinartjournal.com/liliana-porter-interview-contemporary-ar/|url-status=dead}} She has exhibited internationally, and currently lives and works in New York.

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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.{{cite web|title=Arts for Transit and Urban Design|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=1&artist=1&station=11|work=MTA.Info|accessdate=19 October 2012}} In 2012, she collaborated with Uruguayan artist Anna Tiscornia{{cite web|title=Biography and CV|url=http://anatiscornia.com/biography-and-cv.php?sectionId=10|work=Anna Tiscornia|accessdate=18 October 2012|archive-date=2 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702154339/http://anatiscornia.com/biography-and-cv.php?sectionId=10|url-status=dead}} to create Untitled With Sky, a glass windscreen and glass mosaic seating for the Scarborough station.{{cite web|title=Arts for Transit and Urban Design|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=mnr&line=hudsonline&artist=1&station=7|work=MTA.info|accessdate=18 October 2012}} Porter and Tiscornia are continuing their collaboration and will exhibit their new work in January 2013 at the Galería del Paseo in Montevideo, Uruguay.

In 2018, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, presented a major solo project by Porter. The site specific installation El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves (2014/2017) comprised nearly one hundred individual sculptural pieces and fragments relating the artist's signature language, themes, and characters including elements first presented in Liliana Porter's 2017 Venice Biennale project for the Argentina pavilion.{{Cite web |title=Pérez Art Museum Miami Presents Present Liliana Porter's Most Ambitious Installation to Date {{!}} Art & Object |url=https://www.artandobject.com/press-release/perez-art-museum-miami-presents-present-liliana-porters-most-ambitious-installation |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=www.artandobject.com |language=en}}

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.), Pérez Art Museum Miami,{{Cite web |title=El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves – Venecia (Man with an Axe and Other Brief Situations – Venice 2017) • Pérez Art Museum Miami |url=https://www.pamm.org/en/artwork/2017.013 |access-date=2023-08-22 |website=Pérez Art Museum Miami |language=en-US}} Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, (Bogotá, Colombia) and more.

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• Guggenheim Fellowship (1980)
• The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1985, 1996, 1999)
• NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Fellowship (1994)
• Professional Staff Congress-CUNY Research Award (awarded seven times between 1994 and 2004)
• Platinum Konex Award in Mixed Technics (2002), Konex Foundation
• Merit Diploma Konex Award (1992 and 2012), Konex Foundation

• {{cite web|last=Gainza|first=Maria|volume=42|title=Liliana Porter: Centro Cultural Recoleta|url=http://hosfeltgallery.com/reviews/porter.artforum2004_web.jpg|website=Artforum|issue=7|page=190|date=March 2004|access-date=19 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712221625/http://hosfeltgallery.com/reviews/porter.artforum2004_web.jpg|archive-date=12 July 2011|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite web|last=Sorkin |first=Jenni |author-link=Jenni Sorkin |date=4 April 2002|title=Liliana Porter, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York|work=frieze 66|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024151558/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/liliana_porter/|archive-date=24 October 2012|access-date=|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/liliana_porter/}}
• {{cite book|last=Bazzano-Nelson|first=Florencia|year=2008|title=Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|url=http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754664659|access-date=11 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922051113/http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754664659|archive-date=22 September 2015|url-status=dead}}

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• {{official website|http://lilianaporter.com/}}
• [http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4703 Liliana Porter at MoMA]
• [http://www.artnet.com/artist/641544/liliana-porter.html Liliana Porter on Artnet]
• [https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/liliana-porter Liliana Porter at the Hammer Museum (Racial Women Exhibition)]
• [http://awp.diaart.org/porter/ Liliana Porter at Dia Art Foundation]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307231942/http://www.literalmagazine.com/pdf/l5_porter.pdf The Quoted Wor(r)ld]

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