Liliana Porter
Biography
(Argentinean, 1941)
Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has lived in New York since 1964. Porter enjoys working in many different mediums such as printmaking, painting, installations, photography, film, and video. Since 1991 she has been a professor at Queens College, City University of New York.
Education
Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
Academica Correspondiente for Argentina, 2003
Academica Correspondiente for Argentina in the United States, 2009
Public Art Commissions
2010
Untitled with Sky, a collaborative project with Ana Tiscornia, installation of four
faceted stained glass windows and sitting facility, MTA Scarborough Metro North
Rail Station, NY.
2007
Situations with Them, wall installation consisting of 12 metal and glass boxes, painted, containing figurines and objects and inserted inside the wall and illuminated with a specially designed lighting system, Public School IS 96, Amsterdam Avenue at 152nd, New York, NY.
2005
Alice Goes Back, mosaic mural, Miami River Walk, Miami, FL.
2004
El Viajero / The Traveler, 1700 sq. Foot glass mosaic mural, Doménech Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2003
Further Away, figurines, mirror, metal, and glass box installed on elevator, The Lab at Belmar, Denver, Colorado.
1994
Alice: the Way Out, 4 terracotta mosaic murals, MTA Arts for Transit, 50th St. Station, lines 1-9, New York, NY.
Non-Gallery Group Exhibitions
2010
PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. "Iman = New York."
El Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Santiago del Estero, Argentina. "Historias en Movimento - Video, Cine, Animation."
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Los Angeles, CA. "Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography 1990-2005."
Kulturant der Stadt Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany. "Larger than Life - Stranger than Fiction: 11th Triennial of Small Sculpture, (11 Triennale Kleinplastik)."
Fordham College Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, NY. "Ventana al Sur: Argentine Experimental Films."
El Museo del Barrio at Pulse, New York, NY. "Pulse Play."
Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lía Mermúdez, Venezuela. "Acciones Disolventes - Videoarte Latinoamericano."
La Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain. "Al calor del pensamiento - Obras de la Daros Latinamerica Collection." Galería Petrus, San Juan, Puerto Rico. "2010."Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA."New Prints - Part I."
2009-2010
The Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA. "Strange Loops."
PAN/ Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy. "Los Impoliticos."The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. "PrettyTough: Contemporary Storytelling."
2009
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. "Voces y Visiones."
International Print Center, NY."New Prints - Part I."
Sharjah Biennial 9, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Trienal de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT. "Latin American Printmakers."
Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina. "Extranjerías."
Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain. "Some Wrinkles in Time."
MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. "Escuelismo."
Awards
2006
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Digital Prints)
2004
Associación Argentina de Críticos de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina Premio Aldo Pellegrini: Artista del año PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Animations)
2002
Premio Konex, Buenos Aires, Argentina
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Multimedia)
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Digital Video)
1999
Women's Studio Workshop Award, New York
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Multimedia)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Premio Leonardo: Video/Film
1998
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Premio Leonardo: Printmaking
1997
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Video)
1995
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Photography))
1994
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts - Photography)
1992
Fundación Conex, Buenos Aires,Argentina: Diploma al Merito
1986
XI International Print Biennial, Krakow, Poland: Grand Prix
Latin-American Graphic Arts Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York: First Prize,
VII Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico: First Prize
1984
10th Graphics Biennial. Krakow, Poland: Prix Ex Aequo
1983
World Print 4, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: Edition Purchase Award
First Iberoamerican Graphics Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay: First Prize
1981
14th International Print Biennial. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: Purchase Prize
1978
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina: "Arte Argentino 78": First Prize
1974
4th International Print Biennial, Bradford, England: Purchase Award (Park Square Gallery)
1973
Print Biennial, Cali, Colombia: Purchase Award for Drawing
1971
Print Biennial, Cali, Colombia: Graphic Design Award
1970
First Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico: First Prize
1968
International Print Biennial, Krakow, Poland: Foreign Ministry Award
1965
Print Biennial, Santiago, Chile: Purchase Award
Teaching Experience
Fellowships
1999
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (Film)
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (artist-in-residence), Umbertide, Italy
1996
New York Foundation for the Arts, The Catalogue Project
1994
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) / Arts International Travel Grant
Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship (works on paper)
1985
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (graphics)
1980
Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship (visual art)
1968
University of Pennsylvania Fellowship (artist-in-residence)
1991-2007
Professor, Queens College, The City University of New York, NY
1988
Etching Instructor, Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
1987
Adjunct lecturer, SUNY Purchase, NY
1979-81
Etching instructor, Porter-Wiener Studio, New York, NY
1974-76
Adjunct lecturer, SUNY at Old Westbury, CT
1974-77
Co-founder and etching instructor, Studio Camnitzer-Porter, Lucca, Italy
1965-70
Co-founder and instructor, New York Graphic Workshop, New York, NY
Collections
Amelita Fortabat, Buenos Aires, Argentina
American Express, Miami, FL
A.T.&T. Corporation
La Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
The Bronx Museum for the Arts, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Brown, Wood, Ivy, Petty & Mitchell, New York, NY
Booz, Allen, & Company, New York, NY
Boras Konstmuseum, Sweden
Casa de las Américas, Habana, Cuba
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, Buenos Aires
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, Hong Kong
Chemical Bank
Clouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Daros Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
Depauw University, Greencastle, IN
Estee Lauder Collection, New York
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, NY
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
I.B.M. Corporation
Instituto de Cultura, San Juan, Puerto Rico
International Graphic Art Society, New York, NY
Instituto Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Kelly, Drye & Warren, New York, NY
LeBouef, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York, NY
MALBA, Coleccion Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marion and Jorge Helft Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina
MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Ministry of Culture Francaise, Belgium
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY
Musee D'Art Contemporaine, Montreal, Canada
Musee D'Art, Lodz, Poland
Museo de Arte Contemporâneo, Murcia, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, México
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá City, Panamá
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander, Spain
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Museo del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Monterrey, México
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museo Tamayo, México D.F.
Museo Universitario, México D.F.
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Needham Harper Worldwide, New York, NY
News Corporation United, New York, NY
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheets, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Phillip Morris Collection, New York, NY
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
RCA Corporation
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Southeast Banking Corporation
TATE Modern Collection, London, UK
Walt Disney Productions
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Private Collections
Etching on paper, 39/50. 1966. 18” x 33”