LILIANA PORTER

Liliana Porter is an Argentine-born visual artist who studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Soon after her move to New York in 1964, Porter formed an organization of artists with fellow artists Luis Camnitzer, Julian Firestone, Jose Guillermo Castillo, and Sharon Arnt and named this group The New York Graphic Workshop. Porter initially began her artistic endeavors as a printmaker, but branched out to an eclectic variety of mediums that range from drawing, painting, and photography to assemblage art, video, and public installations. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980 and has been working as a professor at Queens College at the City University of New York since 1991. Through the playful and yet poignant usage of little toy figures and knickknacks in her works, Porter arranges an alternative reality where she presents various dialogues and scenarios, and ultimately questions the concept of the viewers’ subjectivity.

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