Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1941, and has been living in New York since 1964. Her work explores different formats such as canvas, engravings, drawings, photography, video, installations and theater.
Liliana studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires and the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico City. In 1965, she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop. She has won the following fellowships: Guggenheim fellowship (1980), three from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1985, 1996, 1999); the Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship (1994) and seven PSC-CUNY Research Awards (from 1994 to 2004). She is a Corresponding Academician of Argentina since 2003 and Corresponding Fellow of Argentina for the United States since 2009.
Her works have been featured in public and private collections alike, at renowned museums including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the MALBA, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of New York, the Tate Modern and British Museum of London, the Daros Latinamerica Collection of Zurich, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía of Madrid and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico.
She also co-directed three plays with Ana Tiscornia, featuring the music of Silvia Meyer: Entreactos: situaciones breves (2014), sponsored by the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; El orden de las cosas (sketches) (2015), as part of the El Borde de sí mismo: ensayos entre el teatro y las artes visuales series at the Museo de Arte Moderno; and Domar al león y otras dudas, performed at Parque de la Memoria.