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| module =}}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.WEB, Orosz, Demian, La historia sin fin de Liliana Porter,weblink Vos Argentina, 21 October 2016, WEB,weblink Liliana Porter, Porter, Liliana, lilianaporter.com, en, 10 March 2018,

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.BOOK, Giunta, Andrea, A Conversation with Liliana Porter and Luis Camnitzer, 2009, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX,weblink She returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires.WEB, Liliana Porter Bio,weblink Tamarind Intstitute, 14 October 2012, dead,weblink" title="archive.today/20121215044206weblink">weblink 15 December 2012, 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.WEB, Liliana Porter,weblink The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964–1970, Blanton Museum, 14 October 2012, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121111065911weblink">weblink 11 November 2012, 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.WEB, History of the Studio,weblink Studio Camnitzer, 18 October 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160504145633weblink">weblink 4 May 2016, dead, WEB, Liliana Porter Biography,weblink Artists, Barbara Krakow Gallery, 20 October 2012, 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.WEB, Bio,weblink Liliana Porter, 18 November 2012, WEB,weblink Artists – LILIANA PORTER, Hosfelt Gallery, 13 January 2013,

Artwork

File:Alice in the Subway vc.jpg|thumb|left|50th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)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.NEWS, Gainza, Maria, March 2004, Liliana Porter: Centro Cultural Recoleta, Artforum International, BOOK, Bazzano-Nelson, Florencia, Liliana Porter and the art of simulation, Ashgate, 2008, 9780754664659, Burlington, VT, 7–10, She cites Luis Felipe Noe, Giorgio Morandi, Roy Lichtenstein, the Arte Povera group, and the Guerrilla Girls as influences on her work.WEB, Tintori, Valentina, Liliana Porter Interview,weblink The Latin American Art Journal, 18 October 2012, 20 January 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150120225503weblink">weblink dead, She has exhibited internationally, and currently lives and works in New York. (File:Scarborough Train Station (2).jpg|thumb|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.WEB, Arts for Transit and Urban Design,weblink MTA.Info, 19 October 2012, In 2012, she collaborated with Uruguayan artist Anna TiscorniaWEB, Biography and CV,weblink Anna Tiscornia, 18 October 2012, 2 July 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130702154339weblink">weblink dead, to create Untitled With Sky, a glass windscreen and glass mosaic seating for the Scarborough station.WEB, Arts for Transit and Urban Design,weblink MTA.info, 18 October 2012, 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.WEB, Pérez Art Museum Miami Presents Present Liliana Porter's Most Ambitious Installation to Date {{!, Art & Object |url=https://www.artandobject.com/press-release/perez-art-museum-miami-presents-present-liliana-porters-most-ambitious-installation |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=www.artandobject.com |language=en}}

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,WEB, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves – Venecia (Man with an Axe and Other Brief Situations – Venice 2017) • Pérez Art Museum Miami,weblink 2023-08-22, Pérez Art Museum Miami, en-US, Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, (Bogotá, Colombia) and more.{{clear left}}

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

Publications

• WEB, Gainza, Maria, 42, Liliana Porter: Centro Cultural Recoleta,weblink Artforum, 7, 190, March 2004, 19 March 2020,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110712221625weblink">weblink 12 July 2011, dead,
• WEB, Sorkin, Jenni, Jenni Sorkin, 4 April 2002, Liliana Porter, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, frieze (magazine), frieze 66, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121024151558weblink">weblink 24 October 2012,weblink
• BOOK, Bazzano-Nelson, Florencia, 2008, Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation, Ashgate Publishing,weblink 11 November 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150922051113weblink">weblink 22 September 2015, dead,

References

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External links

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• {{official websiteweblink}}
• Liliana Porter at MoMA
• Liliana Porter on Artnet
• Liliana Porter at the Hammer Museum (Racial Women Exhibition)
• Liliana Porter at Dia Art Foundation
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120307231942weblink">The Quoted Wor(r)ld

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