Liliana Porter
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In the last years, parallel to photography and video, I have been making works on canvas, prints, drawings, collages, and small installations. 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, they 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.Liliana Porter
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Exhibitions
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Review | Reveal
3 Dec 2024 - 4 Jan 2025 -
The Armory Show 2024
Liliana Porter 5 - 8 Sep 2024SECRIST | BEACH is pleased to participate in The Armory Show's FOCUS Section with a solo, multimedia presentation by Liliana Porter. Responding to FOCUS curator Robyn Farrell's prompt to 'reflect...Read more -
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Recent solo shows include those at Dia Beacon in New York, Les Abattoirs in Toulouse France, El Museo de Barrio in New York City; The Perez Art Museum in Miami; Galería Luciana Brito in São Paulo, Brasil; ART OMI in Ghent, NY; Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA; El Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo; Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson in San Juan, Argentina; Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara, Mexico; Sicardi Gallery in Houston, TX; Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, MA; and Galerie Mor-Charpentier in Paris, France. Porter's work is featured in the traveling exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985 at the Brooklyn Museum, NY and the Hammer in Los Angeles, CA. In 2017 Porter’s work was included in Viva Arte Viva, La Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition in Italy and she debuted Domar al leon y otras dudas, her third theatrical production in June at the 2nd Bienal de Performance, Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Porter's most recent theatrical perfromance, THEM was co-directed with Ana Tiscornia with music by Sylvia Meyer. It debuted in New York at The Kitchen from October 25-26, 2018.
Additionally Porter's work has been exhibited at El Museo Tamayo, México DF; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Museum. The artist’s works are held in public and private collections, among them are TATE Modern, London; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museo de Bellas Artes de Santiago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Boston; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and the Daros Latinamerica Collection Zürich. Public art projects include those for NY’s MTA and Doménech Station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Galleries in Europe, Latin America, and the United States represent the artist.
Liliana Porter’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and Sculpture Magazine, among others. Monographs include Liliana Porter in Conversation with Inés Katzenstein, Liliana Porter: El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves by Graciela Speranza, Liliana Porter: The Enemy e Outros Olhares Obliques by Montejo Navas, Liliana Porter: Fotografía y Ficción by Inés Katzenstein, Liliana Porter: Obra Gráfica, 1964-1990 by Mari Carmen Ramirez, Liliana Porter and The Art of Simulation by Florencia Nelson-Bazzano. Additionally her work is featured in The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964-1970 by Gabriel Perez-Barreiro and Ursula Davila-Villa, From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard’s Numbers Shows 1969 – 74 by Cornelia Butler., and many more. Porter studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City before moving to New York, where in 1964 she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop with artists Luis Camnitzer and Jose Guillermo Castillo. Porter was recognized with a 2016 Premio Universitario de Cultura 400 Años award from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina; a 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship; three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1985, 1996, 1999); the Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship (1994); and seven PSC- CUNY research awards (from 1994 to 2004). She was a professor at Queens College, CUNY until 2007.
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Works
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Liliana PorterTo Fix It (2 Man Task), 2024Installation/Assemblage – Broken clock and Figurine on White shelf4 x 9.25 x 9.25 inches
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Liliana PorterTo Fix It (Man with White Shoes), 2024Installation/Assemblage – Broken clock and Figurine on White shelf5.75 x 9.25 x 9.25 inches
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Liliana PorterGold (Woman with Red Sweater), 2023Assemblage: graphite on paper8 x 6.25 inches; 12 x 9.5 inches, framed
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Liliana PorterMan with Pickaxe, 2023Assemblage: Cuts in paper and graphite drawing8 x 6.25 inches
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Liliana PorterMan with Red Tie Going Away, 2023Assemblage: Graphite and figurine on notebook paper8.5 x 6.125 inches
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Liliana PorterTo Hold the String (Man with Black Tie), 2023Assemblage: Graphite and figurine with string on notebook paper8.25 x 6 inches
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Liliana PorterThe Triangle (Man with Green Shoes), 2021acrylic paint and figurine on paper8.25 x 6.25 inches
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Liliana PorterTo be Drunk Again, 2021figurine and collage on paper8.25 x 6.25 inches; 12 x 9.5 inches, framed
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Liliana PorterTo Look at It, 2021figurine, graphite and jewel on paper8.25 x 6.25 inches
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Liliana PorterUntitled with Helga, 2020Still image printed on archival cotton fiber paperImages: 11 x 8.5 inches (paper size)
Portfolio size: 12 x 9 x .5 inches
Edition 16/20
Edition of 25 portfolios, numbered 1 to 20 plus 5 A.P. -
Liliana PorterThe Riddle/ Charada, 2019Digital Video8:45 minutes
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Liliana PorterRed Sand, 2018Colored sand and figurine on white wooden base36 x 40 x 40 inches
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Liliana PorterThe Artist, 2018Acrylic paint, geometric shapes and figurine on black shelf4.5 × 21.5 × 3.75 inches
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Liliana PorterTo Draw It, 2018Acrylic paint, geometric shapes and figurine on black shelf5 × 21.5 × 3.75 inches
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Liliana PorterUntitled with Ironing Board, 2018Acrylic and assemblage on canvas36 × 125 × 3.5 in
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Liliana PorterCircle, 2017Graphite, painted cardboard, and metal figurine on wall33 inches diameter
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Liliana PorterTriangle, 2017Graphite, painted cardboard, and metal figurine on wall31 x 38.5 inches
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Liliana PorterUNTITLED with fire, 2017Collage on paper22.25 x 18 x 1 inches
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Liliana PorterTo Paint White, 2012Cardboard, paint and figurine assemblage18 x 21 x 3 inches
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Liliana PorterDialogue with Teapot, 2002Cibachrome print26.25 x 20.5 inches
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Liliana PorterPlease Don't Move! (with red background), 2002Cibachrome print31.25 x 40.5 inches
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Liliana PorterDialogue (with Penguin), 1999Cibachrome print35 x 27 inches
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Liliana PorterPiñata, 1997Cibachrome print23 x 24.5 inches
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Liliana PorterTwo Candles, 1997Cibachrome print36 x 28 inches
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Liliana PorterPeligro de Muerte (Death Threat), 1995Cibachrome print20 x 24 inches
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