Liliana Porter
Red Brush and Other Situations
March 19 – June 13, 2020
Liliana Porter, Tejedora (Weaver), 2017. Museo del Barrio Installation 2018.
Liliana Porter Studio in Rhinebeck, 2020.
Liliana Porter working in her studio in Rhinebeck, March 2020.
Liliana Porter Studio in Rhinebeck, 2020.
Liliana Porter. The Gardener, 2016. Ceramic fragments and figurine on painted shelf, 75 x14 x 6 in.
Liliana Porter. La Puerta, 2004. Etching and metal figurine on paper, 22.5 x15.25 in.
Liliana Porter. La Linea, 2004. Etching and metal figurine on paper, 22.5 x 15.25 in.
Liliana Porter. Untitled (Pinguin), 1998. Silver Gelatin Print, 23 x19 in.
Liliana Porter. Untitled with Football Player, 1995. Silver gelatin print, 20x 16 in.
Liliana Porter. Gaucho, 1995. Silver gelatin print, 26 x 23 in.
LILIANA PORTER (b. 1941, Argentina)
“My work is … like watching a movie with the lights on…”
Liliana Porter first studied art at the Manuel Belgrano School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, where she enrolled at the age of twelve. Five years later, she moved to Mexico City, where she entered the Universidad Iberoamericana and studied printmaking with Guillermo Silva Santamaría; during her studies, she also participated in an experimental workshop with Mathias Goeritz. She subsequently studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. In 1964, on her way to Paris, Porter visited New York. Drawn to the opportunities and museums in the city, she postponed her trip to Europe and moved permanently to New York. In 1965, along with artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo, she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop, which produced prints while redefining conventional models for making and distributing art.
Porter’s work often places carefully chosen small figurines and other objects in monochromatic empty backgrounds, addressing larger philosophical questions and emotional states. Alongside printmaking, she has also worked extensively in the media of photography and video, and has created works on canvas, drawings, collages, and installations. She writes, “Many of these pieces depict a cast of characters that are inanimate objects, toys and figurines that I find in flea markets, antique stores, and other odd places. The objects have a double existence. On the one hand they are mere appearance, insubstantial ornaments, but, at the same time, have a gaze that can be animated by the viewer, who, through it, can project the inclination to endow things with an interiority and identity. These ‘theatrical vignettes’ are constructed as visual comments that speak of the human condition. I am interested in the simultaneity of humor and distress, banality and the possibility of meaning.”
In 1973, Porter had a solo show in the Projects Room at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in 1980, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Bronx Museum of Art held a retrospective exhibition of her work in 1991 and she has had solo exhibitions at the Museo Tamayo and the Phoenix Art Museum, among many other institutions in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Most recently, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) held a solo exhibition of her work in 2013. Porter was a professor at Queens College, CUNY from 1991 to 2007. She lives and works in New York.
2020
| Red Brush and Other Situations, Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston, TX Lado a Lado, Galería del Paseo, Manantiales, Uruguay |
2019
| Liliana Porter, Blue and Black, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA The Riddle and Other Circumstances, Mor Charpentier Gallery, Paris, France Liliana Porter: Situations, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Liliana Porter: Other Situations, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY |
2018
| Liliana Porter: Man with The Axe (Reconstruction of the original installation at the 57th Biennale of Venice), Perez Art Museum Miami, FL Liliana Porter, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, England |
2017 | Liliana Porter, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, England |
| Liliana Porter, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA |
| Liliana Porter, Dialogues and Disobediences, Artium /Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
| Relatos Complices II: Works in Collaboration by Liliana Porter/Ana Tiscornia, Galería del Paseo, Manantiales, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Liliana Porter: One Wall, One Work, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
| Liliana Porter: The Order of Things and Other Works, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX |
2016 | Liliana Porter: Breaking News, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Liliana Porter, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Liliana Porter, Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain |
| Liliana Porter, Museo Caraffa, Cordoba, Argentina |
| Relatos Complices: Liliana Porter/Ana Tiscornia, Beatriz Gil Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela |
2015 | Liliana Porter, Museo de Bellas Artes de Neuquén, Argentina |
| Liliana Porter: To See Gold and other prints, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Liliana Porter, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson, San Juan, Argentina |
| Liliana Porter, Diagloue with Blue Mug, pick nick Works, Dandilands, Artemis Trail, Troodos, Cyprus |
| Liliana Porter - Selección de obra temprana y una reflexión desde el presente, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Liliana Porter: Reparar el piano y otros compromisos, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
2014 | Entreactos: Situaciones Breves, Teatro Sarmiento, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Liliana Porter – El Hombre con el hacha y otras situciones breves, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Untitled (shadows) 1969-2014, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
2013 | The Square and other early works, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX |
| El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Liliana Porter, Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia |
| Liliana Porter – 1973, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
2012 | Fragment of the Cast, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Liliana Porter, Galerie Mor-Charpentier, Paris, France |
| Disguise, Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain |
| Conejo que levita y otras obras recientes, Centro Cultura de España, Santiago, Chile |
| Recent Work, Baginski Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal |
| The Task, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| Liliana Porter, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
2011 | Liliana Porter – New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY |
| The Enemy e Outros Olhares Obliquos (The Enemy & Other Oblique Gazes), Galería Luciana Brito, São Paulo, Brazil; Galería Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru |
| Situations with Levitating Rabbit, Galería Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain |
| Galería del Paseo, Manantiales, Montevideo, Uruguay |
2010 | New Works, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
2009 | Matiné, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| To Sweep, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Trabajo forzado, Toll Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Línea de Tiempo / Time Line, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. Mexico |
| Liliana Porter, Simmons Visual Art Center, Brenau University, Gainesville, GA |
2008 | Liliana Porter - Fox in the Mirror, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Liliana Porter, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
| To See Blue, Galería Brito Cimino, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Levitating Rabbit, Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, NY |
| Liliana Porter, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY |
2007 | From a Drawing Standpoint, Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, NY |
| Liliana Porter, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY |
| For Instance, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy |
| To See Red, Galería Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain |
2006 | Red with Eagle, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA |
| Recent Works, Goya-Girl Contemporary, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| For Instance, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
2005 | Girl with Rubber Dog and other Situations, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Eventos Breves, Sala de Verónicas, Murcia, Spain |
| Deer/Dear y otros raros encuentros, Galería Petrus, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Palacio Véronicas, Murcia, Spain |
| Ellos y algunos otros, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Fictions and Other Realities, Georgia State University Ernst G Welch School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA (Two person collaboration between Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia) |
| Dialogo con tetera y otros raros encuentros, Casas Reigner Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia |
2004 | For You, Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Inter-missions, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Liliana Porter: Brief Events, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, MA, USA |
2003-04 | Eventos breves, Palacio Aguirre, Cartagena, Spain; Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain |
2003 | To Blink, Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, FL, USA |
| Liliana Porter: Una puesta en imágenes, Teorética, San José, Costa Rica |
| Dot and Others, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Liliana Porter: Fotografia y Ficción, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina |
2002 | Please, Don’t Move! Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA |
| To Go Back, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
2001 | For You / Para Usted, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| To Say Something, Galería -Brito Cimino, São Paulo, Brazil |
2000 | Liliana Porter, Sicardi-Sanders Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Liliana Porter, Espacio Mínimo, Murcia, Spain |
| Liliana Porter, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Liliana Porter: Recent Works, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY |
| The Space Inside the Mirror, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY |
| Liliana Porter, Emiso Art Center Gallery, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN |
| The Secret Lives of Toys: Liliana Porter Photographs, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
| Drum Solo/ Solo de Tambor, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain |
1999 | For You / Para Usted, Projects, ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY; Blue Star Artspace, San Antonio, TX |
| Liliana Porter, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
1998 | Ellos y algunos otros, Espacio Mínimo, Murcia, Spain |
| Arte Poética, University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, NY, USA |
1997 | Fotografías Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Diálogos, Museo de Bellas Artes Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay |
1996 | Them, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
1995 | Liliana Porter: Poetry and Paradox, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA |
1994 | Illusion/Fragments/Reality, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, USA |
| Liliana Porter, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1993 | Liliana Porter: A Retrospective of Graphic Art 1968-1993, Reading Public Museum, PA, USA |
| Liliana Porter-Simulacrum Steimbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
1992-93 | Fragments of the Journey 1968-1991, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA |
1991 | Liliana Porter, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA |
| Obra Gráfica: 1964-1990, Centro de Recepciones del Gobierno, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Galería-Taller, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia |
| Galería Diners, Bogotá, Colombia |
1990 | Selection of Works: 1968-1990, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay; Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Galería Garces Velasquez, Bogotá, Colombia |
1989 | The Art of Metaphor: Liliana Porter, The World Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse University, New York, NY, USA |
1988 | Galería Krysztofory, Krakow, Poland |
| Galería Latinoamericana, Casa de Las Américas, Havana, Cuba |
| The Space, Boston, MA |
| Invitation of Honor, XXIV Salon Nacional de Grabado y Dibujo, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1987 | Galería Taller, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia |
| Galería Diners, Bogotá, Colombia |
1986 | Galería Luigi Marrozzini, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
1985 | University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
| Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
1984 | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá City, Panamá |
| Galería Garcés Velasquez, Bogotá, Colombia |
| Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Bogotá, Colombia |
| Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY |
1983 | Galerie Jolliet, Montreal, Canada |
| Galería Taller, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia |
1982 | Galería Garces Velasquez, Bogotá, Colombia |
| Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY |
1980 | Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, NY |
| Galería Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1979 | Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY |
1978 | Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia |
| Galería Arte Múltiple, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1977 | Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, NY |
| Galería Arte Múltiple, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Galería Arte Comunale, Adro, Brescia, Italy |
1976 | Gallería della Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy |
| Gallería Ariete Gráfica, Milan, Italy |
1975 | Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, NY |
| Galería Belarca, Bogotá, Colombia |
1974 | Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| Galería Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela |
| Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland |
| Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia |
| Galería Colibri, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
1973 | Hundred Acres Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
| The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA (Project Series) |
| Galería Conz, Venice, Italy |
1972 | Galería Diagramma, Milan, Italy |
| Librería Einaudi, Milan, Italy |
| Printshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
1969 | Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela |
| Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile |
| Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Escuela de Arquitectura, Caracas, Venezuela |
| Associated American Artists, New York, NY, USA |
1968 | Solo exhibitions in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and others |
1967 | Mail Exhibition, New York Graphic Workshop, various locations |
1966 | Galería Amigos del Arte, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Gallery Dache, New York, NY, USA |
1964 | Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
1963 | Galería Plastica de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Prints International, Ontario, Canada |
| Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1962 | Galería Nice, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
1961 | Galería Glantz, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Galería Galatea, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| House of Prints, Toronto, Canada |
1960 | Galería Los Petules, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Galería Municipal de Veracruz, Mexico City, Mexico |
1959 | Galería Proteo, Mexico City, Mexico |
Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, OH, USA
Amelita Fortabat, Buenos Aires, Argentina
American Express, Miami, FL, USA
A.T. & T. Corporation, New York, NY, USA
La Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Booz, Allen & Company, New York, NY, USA
Boras Konstmuseum, Sweden
British Museum, London, UK
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Bronx Museum for the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA
Brown, Wood, Ivy, Petty & Mitchell, New York, NY, USA
Casa de las Américas, Habana, Cuba
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, USA
Chase Manhattan Bank, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chase Manhattan Bank, Hong Kong
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, USA
Clouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, USA
DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, USA
Estee Lauder Collection, New York, NY, USA
FEMSA Collection, Monterrey, Mexico
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, NY, USA
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA
I.B.M. Corporation, Endicott, NY, USA
Instituto de Cultura, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Instituto Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
International Graphic Art Society, New York, NY, USA
Kelly, Drye & Warren, New York, NY, USA
LeBouef, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York, NY, USA
Marion and Jorge Helft Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA, USA
Ministry of Culture Francaise, Belgium
Munson Williams Proctor Fine Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY, USA
Musee D'Art Contemporaine, Montreal, Canada
Musee D'Art, Lodz, Poland
Museo Castagnino-Marco, Rosario, Argentina
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, A.C. Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporâneo, Murcia, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, Panama
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander, Spain
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
Museo del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Universitario, Mexico City, Mexico
Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA
Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA
Needham Harper Worldwide, New York, NY, USA
News Corporation United, New York, NY, USA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheets, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phillip Morris Collection, New York, NY, USA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
RCA Corporation
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
Southeast Banking Corporation
Tate Modern, London, UK
Walt Disney Productions, Burbank, CA, USA
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Anonymous female artisans from Chile, Tania Bruguera, Cristina Hernández Botero, Margarita Cabrera, Melissa Calderón, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Melba Carillo, Marta Chilindron, Alessandra Expósito, Iliana Emilia Garcia, Scherezade Garcia, Dulce Gómez, Carmen Herrera, Jessica Kairé, Carmen Lomas Garza, Evelyn López de Guzmán, Anna Maria Maiolino, Glendalys Medina, Ana Mendieta, Marina Núñez del Prado, Liliana Porter, Raquel Rabinovich, Nitza Tufiño
