Liliana Porter

Place: Buenos Aires

Born: 1941

Biography:

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. 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 art. 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), and MoMA (New York). Porter's work often focuses on themes of simulacrum, mass reproduction, entropy, and boundaries between image and reality. She cites Luis Felipe Noe, Giorgio Morandi, and Luis Camnitzer as influences. Porter has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1980), The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1985, 1996, 1999), NEA Mid-Atlantic Regional Fellowship (1994), and Professional Staff Congress-CUNY Research Award (2000).