LILIANA PORTER (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1941) studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and, from 1958 to 1961, at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. In 1964 she traveled to New York, where she currently lives and works. In 1965 she co-founded The New Graphic Workshop with Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo. She has obtained, among others, the Guggenheim Grant in 1980 and the New York Foundation for Arts Grant in 1985. In 1973 she exhibited individually at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (Projects room). Since then she has exhibited in important museums and institutions in different countries and her work is represented in the collections of some of the most prominent museums in the world – Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum, New York; Brooklyn Art Museum, New York; Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA), Buenos Aires; Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey; Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City; the Bronx Museum of Arts, New York; University Art Museum, Austin; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá; Museo del Barrio, New York; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Wilfredo Lam Institute, Havana; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, Madrid; Daros Latin American, Zurich; ATT Corporation, New York; Philip Morris Collection, New York; CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami; IBM Corporation, New York; The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; PAAM, Pérez Art Museum Miami...Her latest exhibitions include her participation in the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale, Museo del Barrio New York or ARTIUM in Vitoria, as well as Les Abattoirs in Toulouse and DIA Bridgehampton Foundation, New York.
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