About the artist:

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1941, Liliana Porter, studied printmaking at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1960 and graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, in 1963. After moving to New York in 1964, Porter continued to experiment with printmaking at the Pratt Graphic Art Center. During this period she created technically innovative prints that employ Pop-art imagery to comment upon urban society. A founder of the New York Graphic Workshop with Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo in 1965, Porter concurrently became associated with the Conceptual Art movement. Inspired in part by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, she has investigated since the late 1960s the relationships between illusion, artistic representation, and reality in prints, paintings, and wall installations. She has consistently utilized print techniques such as photo-etching and photo-silk-screen in her work. In the mid-1970s Porter began a series of mixed-medium works on paper and canvas depicting objects of childhood, images from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-glass, and reproductions of paintings from the Western artistic tradition. Though still a prolific printmaker, Porter has worked increasingly on canvas since the early 1980s and typically incorporates painting, silk-screen collage, and actual objects into these works. Her one-person exhibitions include: Projects: Liliana Porter, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (1973); the Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires, (1990); The Centro de Recepciones del Gobierno, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1991); and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, (1992). Her group exhibitions include: Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (1970); Latin American Artists in New York since 1970, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, (1987); The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, New York, (1988); and The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, (1990). Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (1993). Porter’s work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, as well as in many private collections. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born: 1941 - Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works in New York City Education: Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 “Girl with Rubber Dog, and Other Situations”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL. “Deer/Dear y otros raros encuentros”, Galeria Petrus, San Juan, P{uerto Rico. “Eventos breves”, Sala de Verónicas, Murcia, Spain “Ellos y algunos otros”, Galeria Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2004 “Eventos breves”,Palacio Aguirre, Cartagena, Spain. “For You”, Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Intermissions”, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York. “Liliana Porter: Brief Events”, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Massachusetts. 2003-4 “Eventos breves”, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain 2003 “To Blink”, Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, Florida “Liliana Porter: Una puesta en imágenes”,Teorética, San José Costa Rica “Dot and Others”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California “Liliana Porter: Fotografia y Ficción”, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2002 Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas. 2000 "Drum Solo / Solo de tambor," Espacio Minimo, Murcia, Spain. Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX. Annina Nosei, New York, NY. "Liliana Porter," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. "The Space Inside the Mirror: Liliana Porter," DePauw University, Emison Art Center, Greencastle, IN. 1999 "For You", Annina Nosei, New York. "For You", Artcore, Toronto, Canada. "For You", Projects, ARCO, Madrid. 1998 "Ellos y algunos otros", Espacio Minimo, Murcia, España. "Arte Poetica", University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1997 "Fotografias" Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. "Dialogos", Museo de Bellas Artes Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay. 1996 "Them", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York. 1995 "Liliana Porter: Poetry and Paradox", University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. 1994 "Illusion/Fragments/Reality", The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. "Liliana Porter", Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1993 "Fragments of The Journey 1968-1992", Archer Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin. "Liliana Porter: A Retrospective of Graphic Art 1968-1993", Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania. "Liliana Porter-Simulacrum" Steimbaum Krauss Gallery. New York. 1992 "Fragments of The Journey 1968-1991", Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. 1991 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The Univversity of North Carolina at Greensboro. "Obra Grafica: 1964-1990", Centro de Recepciones del Gobierno, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Galeria-Taller, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia. Galeria Diners, Bogota, Colombia. 1990 Selection of Works: 1968-1990, Fundacion San Telmo, Buenos Aires. Selection of Works: 1968-1990, Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Montevideo, Uruguay. 1989 The World Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, New York. 1988 Galeria Krysztofory, Cracow, Poland. Galeria Latinoamericana, Casa de Las Americas, Cuba. The Space, Boston, Massachusetts. 1987 Galeria-Taller, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia. Galeria Diners, Bogota, Colombia. 1986 Galeria Luigi Marrozzini, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1985 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, Penn. 1984 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama City, Panama. Galeria Garces-Velasquez, Bogota, Colombia. Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia. Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York City. 1983 Galerie Jolliet, Montreal, Canada. Galeria-Taller; Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia. 1982 Galeria Garces-Velasquez, Bogota, Colombia. Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York City. 1980 Center for Interamerican Relations, New York City. Galeria Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1979 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York City. 1978 Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia. Galeria Arte Multiple, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1977 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City. Galeria Arte Multiple, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Galleria Arte Comunale, Adro, Brescia, Italy. 1976 Galleria della Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy. Galleria Ariete Grafica, Milan, Italy. 1975 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City. Galeria Belarca, Bogota, Colombia. 1974 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City. Galeria Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela. Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland. Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia. 1973 Hundred Acres Gallery, New York City. Museum of Modern Art, New York City, (Projects Series). Galleria Conz, Venice, Italy. 1972 Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy. Libreria Einaudi, Milan, Italy. COLLECTIONS Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Philadelphia Museum of Art. La Biblioteque Nationale, Paris. The New York Public Library. Museo del Grabado, Buenos Aires. Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires. Museo Universitario, Mexico City. Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile. Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia. Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia. Museo de Arte Moderno. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 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. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Musee D'Art, Lodz, Poland. Musee D'Art Contemporaine,Montreal, Canada. Collection of Ministry of Culture Francaise, Belgium. Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba. Instituto Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba. Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama City, Panama. The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York. Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico. Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil. Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, A.C. Mexico. MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain. Boras Konstmuseum, Sweden. Private and Corporate collections.