Liliana Porter

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941
Lives and works in New York City

Selected Works

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Biography
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Selected Solo Shows

2009
Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá
Galeria Ruth Benzacar. Buenos Aires
Museo Tamayo. Mexico DF
Brenau University. Georgia

2008
Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Brito Cimino, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA.

2007
Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Galería Espeacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain.

2006
Goya-Girl Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2005
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galeria Petrus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Palacio Verónicas, Murcia, Spain
Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Georgia State University (Porter / Tiscornia)
Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.

2004
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York.
Palacio Aguirre, Cartagena, Spain

2003
Teorética, San José, Costa Rica
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Sala Cronopios, Buenos Aires.
Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain

2001-03
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Galería Brito Cimino, Sao Paolo, Brazil

2000-02
Sicardi-Sanders, Houston, TX
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ.

1999
Blue Star Artspace, San Antonio, TX.

1999-00-02
Annina Nosei , New York, NY

1998-00-01
Galería Espacio Mínimo, Murcia, Spain
Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY

1997
Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

1996
Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY

1995
University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico State University

1994-97-00
Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1993
Liliana Porter: Fragments of The Journey, Archer M Huntington Art
Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, TX

1992
Liliana Porter: Fragments of The Journey, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY

1991
Obra Gráfica 1964-1990, Instituto de Cultura, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1990
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, NY
Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay

1984
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá

1982-84-91
Galería Garcés-Velazquez, Bogotá, Colombia

1979-82-84
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY

1978
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia

1977-78
Galería Arte Múltiple, Buenos Aires

1974
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Galería Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

1973-75-77
Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, NY

1973
Museum of Modern Art, New York (Projects Series), NY

Filmography

2007
Fox in the Mirror / El zorro en el espejo, digital video. 20:19 minutes. Conceived and directed by Liliana Porter, Co-Director; Ana Tiscornia, Music: Sylvia Meyer.

2000
Drum Solo / Solo de Tambor, 16 mm film transferred to video. 19 minutes. Conceived and directed by Liliana Porter. Music: Sylvia Meyer.

1999
For You/ Para Usted, 16mm film transferred to video. 16 minutes. Conceived and directed by Liliana Porter. Co-director: Juan Mandelbaum. Music: Sylvia Meyer.
Web Projects

2008
Rehersal. Dia Art Foundation. http://diaart.org/porter
Permanent Public Art Works

2007
Situation with Them, 12 painted metal round boxes inserted in the wall containing a variety of objects and figurines. Permanent installation. Public School IS93, Harlem, New York.

2005
Alice goes back, 8′X 28′, Mosaic mural, One Miami River Walk.

2003
Further Away, Permanent Installation, Porcelain figurine, mirror, metal and glass box installed on elevator Shaft, Belmar Complex, Denver, Colorado.

2004
El Viajero / The Traveler, 1700 sq. feet; Glass Mosaic Mural, Domenech Station, Tren Urbano, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1994
Alice: The Way Out, Four terracotta mosaic murals, New York City Subway; 50th Station 1-9 lines.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
Sharjah Biennial 9. Sharjah, United Arab Emirats

2008-2009
For you/Para usted. Videos from the Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Zurich

2008
The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964-1970. The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
The Sum of Its Parts. Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

2007
Bienal Do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (Conversas)
Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy. An Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists 1960/2007, Americas Society, New York, NY
Contemporary Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
Outside the Box, Hosfelt Gllery, San Francisco, CA.

2006
Perspectivas de género y políticas de representación, Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo, Uruguay.
Threads of Memory, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
Book, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Il Giocco e fatto / The Game’s on, Ravello Festival, Ravello, Italy.
El Estrecho Dudoso, (Doubtful Strait) Teorética, San José, Costa Rica.
Dialogues and Solos. (Porter-Tiscornia) Syracuse University Gallery

2005
Fotografía!, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa , FL
Documenting Poetry: Contemporary Latin American Photography, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women College, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Through the Lens, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Saturday Morning, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Graphica Creativa 05, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Phinland
Wunderkammer II: paisajes, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico DF.
Drawing: Six Perspectives, Amelia Wallas Gallery, State University of New York at Old Westbury, New York, NY
M Therory, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

2004
Troy Story, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001
Drama Queens, Women behind the Camera, Guggenheim Museum, New York
El Final del Eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain.(traveling show).
Ironía, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona
Animations, PS1, New York.

2000
New York Independent Film Festival, NY
Territorios ausentes, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain.
Making Sense , Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Median-Kunst-Woche Kyoto 2000, Video Festival. Japan

1999
Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, N.Y.

1998
The Garden of Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1992-93
Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Awards

2006
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts- Digital Prints)

2004
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts- Animations)
Premio Aldo Pellegrini, Artista del año, Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte. Buenos Aires

2002-2003
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts- Digital Video)

2002
Premio Konex , Buenos Aires, Argentina

2000
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts- Multimedia)

1999
Women’s Studio Workshop Award, New York.
PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts- Multimedia)
Premio Leonardo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (Video/Film)

1998
Premio Leonardo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (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
Diploma al Merito, Fundación Conex, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1986
Grand Prix, XI International Print Biennial, Cracow, Poland
First Prize, Latinamerican Graphic Arts Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
First Prize, VII Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1984
Prix Ex Aequo 10th Graphics Biennial, Cracow, Poland

1983
Edition Purchase Award, World Print 4, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Ca.
First Prize, First Iberoamerican Graphics Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay.

1981
Purchase Prize, 14th International Print Biennial, Ljubljana,Yugoslavia.

1978
First Prize, “Arte Argentino 78″, Museo de Bellas Artes

1974
Purchase Award (Park Square Gallery), 4th International Print Biennial, Bradford, England.

1973
Purchase Award for Drawing, Biennial, Cali, Colombia.

1971
Graphic Design Award, Print Biennial, Cali, Colombia.

1970
First Prize, First Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1968
Foreign Ministry Award, International Print Biennial, Krakow, Poland

1965
Purchase Award, Print Biennial, Santiago de Chile.

Fellowships

1999
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, (artist in residence), Umbertide, Italy.
Fellowship (Film) New York Foundation for the Arts.

1996
The Catalogue Project, New York Foundation for the Arts.

1994
Travel Grant, NEA and Arts International.
Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship.(works on paper).

1985
Fellowship (graphics) New York Foundation for the Arts

1980
Guggenheim Fellowship.

1968
Fellowship (artist in residence), Univeristy of Penn., Phila.

Collections

Tate Modern, London, England.
Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Whitney Museum, New York City
Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
La Biblioteque Nationale, Paris.
The New York Public Library.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile.
Harvard Art Museum
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia.
RCA Corporation.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, Buenos Aires.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, Hong Kong.
University Art Museum, Austin, Texas.
Museo del Barrio, New York.
Instituto de Cultura, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway.
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee.