Liliana Porter
Liliana Porter (born 1941) is an Argentine contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art.
Liliana Porter

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- Name
- Liliana Porter
- Born
- 1941
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Education
- Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes
- Known for
- Photography Printmaking Mixed media Installation art Video art
- Nationality
- Argentina · United States
- Occupation
- artist · painter · university teacher · illustrator · television producer · graphic artist · installation artist · video artist · photographer · printmaker
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek · Getty Union List of Artist Names
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• Name — Liliana Porter • Born — 1941 • Birthplace — Buenos Aires, Argentina • Education — Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes • Known for — Photography Printmaking Mixed media Installation art Video art • Website — lilianaporter.com
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Liliana Porter, recorded as a photographer, teacher, collagist, graphic artist and painter, was born in 1941 in Buenos Aires. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Artwork
Artwork
• Illustration — 50th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) Porter's work often focuses on themes of simulacrum, mass reproduction, entropy, and boundaries between image and reality. She cites Luis Felipe Noe, Giorgio Morandi, Roy Lichtenstein, the Arte Povera group, and the Guerrilla Girls as influences on her work. She has exhibited internationally, and currently lives and works in New York. • Illustration — Scarborough Train Station (2) 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. In 2012, she collaborated with Uruguayan artist Anna Tiscornia to create Untitled With Sky, a glass windscreen and glass mosaic seating for the Scarborough station. 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.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1941
Liliana Porter born at Buenos Aires.
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Education and teaching experience
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. She returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. In 1964, she moved to New York City, where she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop with fellow artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo. 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. 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.
Documentary record
Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: New York, NY.
Permanent collections
Permanent collections
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, Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, (Bogotá, Colombia) and more.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q528501: Liliana Porter
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reference work
- “Liliana Porter”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• 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
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- 1.Orosz, Demian. La historia sin fin de Liliana Porter. Vos Argentina. 6 August 2016.
- 2.Porter, Liliana. Liliana Porter. lilianaporter.com.
- 3.Giunta, Andrea. A Conversation with Liliana Porter and Luis Camnitzer. Blanton Museum of Art. 2009.
- 4.Tamarind Intstitute. Liliana Porter Bio.
- 5.Blanton Museum. Liliana Porter. The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964–1970.
- 6.History of the Studio. Studio Camnitzer.
- 7.Barbara Krakow Gallery. Liliana Porter Biography. Artists.
- 8.Bio. Liliana Porter.
- 9.Hosfelt Gallery. Artists – LILIANA PORTER.
- 10.Gainza, Maria. Liliana Porter: Centro Cultural Recoleta. Artforum International. March 2004.
- 11.Bazzano-Nelson, Florencia. Liliana Porter and the art of simulation. Ashgate. 7–10. 2008. 9780754664659.
- 12.Tintori, Valentina. Liliana Porter Interview. The Latin American Art Journal.
- 13.Arts for Transit and Urban Design. MTA.Info.
- 14.Biography and CV. Anna Tiscornia.
- 15.Arts for Transit and Urban Design. MTA.info.
- 16.Pérez Art Museum Miami Presents Present Liliana Porter's Most Ambitious Installation to Date Art & Object. www.artandobject.com.
- 17.El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves – Venecia (Man with an Axe and Other Brief Situations – Venice 2017) • Pérez Art Museum Miami. Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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She was employed by Queens College. She belonged to National Academy of Fine Arts (Argentina) and Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia. She worked at Buenos Aires, Mexico City and New York City. Porter received Guggenheim Fellowship and New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Tate, Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art
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