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Abbreviated Resume

Email: lilianaporter@earthlink.net

Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1941.
Lives and works in New York since 1964.

Education: Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, 1980
Art Professor CUNY at Queens College, 1991-2007 (retired)
Mediums: Printmaking, painting, photography, installations, film and video

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2009Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Toll Gallery, Motevideo, Uruguay
Galeria Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires
Museo Tamayo. Mexico DF
Brenau University. Georgia
2008Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
2008Galeria Brito Cimino, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA.
2007Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Galería Espeacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain.
2006Goya-Girl Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005Carrie 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.
2004Annina Nosei Gallery, New York.
Palacio Aguirre, Cartagena, Spain
2003Teorética, San José, Costa Rica
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Sala Cronopios, Buenos Aires.
Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain
2001-03Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Galería Brito Cimino, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2000-02Sicardi-Sanders, Houston, TX
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
Phoenix Art Museum, AZ.
1999Blue Star Artspace, San Antonio, TX.
1999-00-02Annina Nosei , New York, NY
1998-00-01Galería 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

2007Fox 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.
2000Drum 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

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

Permanent Public Art Works

2007Situation 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 Emirates
2008-2009 For you/Para usted. Videos from the Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Zurich
Living (in) Animate, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
2008The 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 Perpectivas 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.
1999 PSC-CUNY Research Award (Visual Arts- Multimedia)
1999 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.
1999 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.