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Liliana Porter

 
Liliana Porter

American 20th-21st century printmaker, painter, and mixed media artist
(Argentina, 1941 – )

From artist’s website: Porter has resided in New York since 1964). She works across mediums with printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, theater, and public art. Porter began showing her work in 1959 and has since been in over 450 exhibitions in 40 countries. Recent solo shows include those at El Museo de Barrio in New York City; The Perez Art Museum in Miami; Galería Luciana Brito in São Paulo, Brasil; ART OMI in Ghent, NY; Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA; El Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo; Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson in San Juan, Argentina; Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara, Mexico; Sicardi Gallery in Houston, TX; Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, MA; and Galerie Mor-Charpentier in Paris, France. Porter's work is featured in the traveling exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985 at the Brooklyn Museum, NY and the Hammer in Los Angeles, CA. In 2017 Porter’s work was included in Viva Arte Viva, La Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition in Italy and she debuted Domar al leon y otras dudas, her third theatrical production in June at the 2nd Bienal de Performance, Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Porter's most recent theatrical perfromance, THEM was co-directed with Ana Tiscornia with music by Sylvia Meyer. It debuted in New York at The Kitchen from October 25-26, 2018.

2 objects

Them

1995
digital print on glassine
Gift of the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2022.46.1
 

Them

1995
digital print on glassine
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.264