Tina La Porta

{{Infobox artist

| name = Tina La Porta

| birth_date = 1967

| birth_place = Chicago, IL

| education = Columbia College, Chicago and School of Visual Arts, NY

| movement = internet art, feminist art, new media art, digital art

| known_for = Voyeur_Web, Re:mote_corp@REALities, Side Effects, Medicine Ball

| website = http://www.tinalaporta.net/

}}

Tina La Porta is a Miami-based digital artist who "focuses on issues surrounding identity in the virtual space".{{cite book|title=Intermedia|isbn=9783833415418|editor=Hans Breder, Klaus-Peter Busse|series=Dortmunder Schriften zur Kunst / Intermedia-Studien|year=2005|volume=1|pages=44}} She was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tinalaporta.net/biography.html|title=Tina La Porta Biography|website=www.tinalaporta.net|access-date=2020-03-30}} Her early work could be characterized as net:art or internet art. In 2001 she collaborated with Sharon Lehner on My Womb the Mosh Pit, an artistic representation of Peggy Phelan's Unmarked.{{cite book|last=Flanagan|first=Mary|author2=Austin Booth|title=Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture|publisher=MIT Press|date=2002|pages=542|isbn=0262561506}} La Porta is known for political and feminist art that explores gender, bodies and media such as the 2003 installation Total Screen which consists of enlarged Polaroid photographs of veiled men and women in TV news coverage after the events of 9/11.{{Cite journal|last=Rothenberg|first=Julia|date=2012|title=Art after 9/11: Critical Moments in Lean Times|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1749975511404851|journal=Cultural Sociology|language=en|volume=6|issue=2|pages=177–200|doi=10.1177/1749975511404851|s2cid=145592849 |issn=1749-9755}} Later work explores mental illness and pharmaceuticals. In 2012 she presented Medicine Ball at the Robert Fontaine Gallery as part of the "Warhol is Over?" exhibition;{{cite web |last=Valys |first=Phillip |date=13 July 2012 |title=They're not Andy Warhol |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-13/entertainment/fl-sh-art-071312-20120713_1_andy-warhol-paul-warhola-miami-beach-artist |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214755/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-13/entertainment/fl-sh-art-071312-20120713_1_andy-warhol-paul-warhola-miami-beach-artist |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=8 March 2015 |work=Sun Sentinel}} this followed a 2011 presentation of All the Pills in My House, also at Fontaine's gallery.{{cite web |last=Suarez de Jesus |first=Carlos |date=17 November 2011 |title=Sex, Drugs, Profanity and More at Wynwood's Robert Fontaine Gallery |url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/sex-drugs-profanity-and-more-at-wynwoods-robert-fontaine-gallery-6501771 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626205006/https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/sex-drugs-profanity-and-more-at-wynwoods-robert-fontaine-gallery-6501771 |archive-date=26 June 2022 |access-date=8 March 2015 |work=Miami New Times}} In 2015 she participated in the 40-person Annual Interest exhibition at the Young at Art Museum.{{cite web |last=Valys |first=Phillip |date=27 January 2015 |title=At Young at Art, rooms of one's own |url=http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-sri-prabha-davie-young-art-museum-20150127,0,6053467.story |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418174520/http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-sri-prabha-davie-young-art-museum-20150127-story.html |archive-date=18 April 2015 |access-date=8 March 2015 |work=SouthFlorida.com |publisher=Sun Sentinel}}