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Portia Munson

(American)

Portia Munson

White Cosmos, 2011

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Portia Munson

Cedar Wax Wing, 2011

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Portia Munson

Coltsfoot Tulip, 2011

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Biography

Timeline

1983: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, USA
1987: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1990: Master of Fine Arts, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
: Artists Space, Individual Artist Grant, New York, NY, USA
1992 - 1993: MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Fellowship/Residency, Peterborough, NH, USA
1993 - 1994: Berta Walker Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Fellowship/Residency, Provincetown, MA, USA
1994: Art Matters, Inc., Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
1996 - 1997: Maria Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
1996: Art Omni, Fellowship/Residency, Omni, NY, USA (catalogue)
1997 - 1998: MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Fellowship/Residency, Peterborough, NH, USA
1997: C-Scape Dune Shack, Fellowship/Residency, Provincetown, MA, USA
1998 - 1999: Yaddo Fellowship/Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
1999 - 2000: Second Year Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Fellowship/Residency, Provincetown, MA, USA
1999: NY Foundation for the Arts and RCCA, Special Opportunity Stipend (1996 & 1992)
2012: MTA Subway Commission, Fort Hamilton Parkway Station, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Exhibitions

2013: Convergence, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, USA
: Reflecting Pool, P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
2012: Female Gaze, WomenArtists Making Their World, Linda Lee Alter Collection, Pennsylvania, Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA (catalogue)
: Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, USA
: Roadside: Portia Munson & Jared Handelsman, Foundation Gallery, Columbia Green Community College, Hudson, NY, USA
: Whale oil to Whole Foods, Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Agroforestry Center, Acra, NY, USA
2011: Precise Forms, Reyerson Woods, Deerfield, IL, USA
: Viewing Rm, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC, USA
: Migration, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: Living Here, KTD Monastery, Woodstock, NY, USA (catalogue)
: Color Forms, Mass MoCa, North Adams, MA, USA (solo exhibition)
: At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH, USA
: Digital to Physical, Patton-Malott Gallery, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO, USA
: Botanica, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, USA
: Cow Girls 3, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY, USA
: Debris, P•P•O•W, New York, NY, USA
: Objectophilia; Biennial of the Americas, Capsule, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO, USA
2010: Portia Munson, Liebowitz Gallery, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA, USA
Pink Project; Mound, Musselman Gallery, Provencetown, MA, USA
Pink Project; Mound, Musselman Gallery, Provencetown, MA, USA, (solo exhibition)
: Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, USA
2009: Forces of Nature, Danese Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: New Prints-Portraits, IPCNY, New York, NY, USA
: Other Nature, Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson, NY, USA
: It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: Out of this World, Rockland Arts Center, Nyack, NY, USA
: Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty, Monserrat Collage of Art, Beverly, MA, USA
: Paint Show, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY, USA curator Eileen Doster
: Locally Grown, Airport Gallery, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY, USA
2008: Garbage Picker! The Contemporary Artist as Chiffonier(e), curated by Amy Brabdt, Affirmation Arts, New York, NY, USA
: Repetitive Nature, Concourse Gallery, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY, USA
2007: Tuttavia Povero!, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ, USA
: Oasis, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY, USA
: New Hudson 3, Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY, USA
: CowGirls 2, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY, USA
: Green, P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
: Pink Project: Contained, Hemphill Gallery, Washington, DC, USA (solo exhibition)
: The ADAA Armory Show, P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006: Portia Munson, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
: Out Of Context: Contemporary Photography in the Landscape, The Fields Sculpture Park Art Omi International Arts Center, Omi, NY, USA
: In Side Out, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY, USA
: War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: Hope Auction, Benefit, Gavin Brown Enterprise’ Passerby, New York, NY, USA
: Flowers/Kwiaty, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005: Flower Mandalas, P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
: No Place Like Home; Jared Handelsman & Portia Munson, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY USA
: This is Not an Archive, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, USA
2004: Tracks, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: On Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, USA
2003: Portia Munson & Lee Musselman, Historical Materialism, Hudson, NY, USA
: Nature Hanging by a Thread, Queen Theatre in Park, Flushing, NY, USA
: Compost, Gallery at The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
: Color of the Avant Garde, Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
2002: Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: The Darkside, Colony Cafe, Woodstock, NY, USA
: FAWC Fellows 1986-2001, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; and The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, USA
: Spitting Image, Art Gallery at Stamford University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT USA
2001: Green Piece: Lawn, School House Center Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA (solo exhibition)
2000: The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery,New York, NY, USA curator Dr. Judith Stein
: Fixation: Obsession in Contemporary Art, curated by A. Inselman, Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan, WI , USA
: Pink Project; Mound, Musselman Gallery, Provencetown, MA, USA
: Portia Munson, Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
1999: The Petite Format, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Color, Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
: Alan Sonfist & Portia Munson, Art Gallery of the University of S. Maine, Gorham, ME, USA
: Along the Garden Path, curated by Linda Weintraub, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, USA (catalogue)
: Food Matters, Center Gallery, curated by Stuart Horodner, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
1998: The Ornament of the Masses, curated by Dr. Andreas Jurgensen, Kunstahallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odensec, Denmark (catalogue)
1997: Fetish, Art Gallery of Windsor, curated by Renee Baert, Montreal, Canada (catalogue)
: Pink, Jean Albano Gallery, curated by Lisa Wainwright, Chicago, IL, USA
: American Art Today: The Garden, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (catalogue)
: Figuring Women's Lives, Kingsborogh Community College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: Pink Space, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
: ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
: Pink Project: Bedroom, Hotel, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY, USA (solo exhibition) Travelled through 1999
: Scratch, Benefit, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, USA (catalogue and benefit exhibition)
: Benefit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
: 20/20, curated by Lee Musselman, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA (catalogue)
: The Garden, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
: Four Artists, College Center Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
: In This Time and Place, College Art Gallery, SUNY at New Paltz, NY, USA
: Body Language, curated by Judith Page & Adam Strauss, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, USA (catalogue)
1996: Obsession, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
: Women Artists, Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (catalogue)
1995: Insight, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues with the Surreal, curated by Jeffrey Keough & Ann Wilson Lloyd, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA (catalogue)
: Kunstkabinett, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA curated by Sean Ellwood
: Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (catalogue)
: Foil Project, College of Design, Iowa University, Ames, IA collaboration with Jared Handelsman Pleasant Pebble, curated by Mary Jones & Janice Kransnow, The Work Space, New York, NY, USA
: Domestic Disturbance, curated by Allan Frame & Katherine Herndon, Delta Axis, Memphis, TN, USA
: New Forms, curated by Ann Wilson Lloyd, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, USA
: Bibliomania, curated by Nadine Verdan Heller, Eighth Floor Project Space, New York, NY, USA
: Paintings and Pink, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
: Sololoquies, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA
: Evolutions, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
: The Women’s Health Show, City College Gallery and A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Pink Window, Art in General, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
1994: Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, ISA (catalogue)
: Contemporary Still Life, curated by Laura Reuter, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA
1993: White Room, White Columns, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
: 1920, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY, USA
: Update '93, White Columns, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
: Songs of Retribution, curated by Nancy Spero, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
: Pimpinette, curated by David Goldsmith & Anki Juhanisdotter, Villa Val Lemme, Capriata d'Orba, Italy
: Art Umjetnost, Obala Theater, Obala, Sarajevo
1992: Women & Surrealism, curator MaryJane Jacob, Women's Caucus for Art, Artemesia Society, Chicago, IL
: Still Life Today, Scott Alan Fine Arts, New York, NY
1990: Brut 90, curated by Bill Arning, White Columns, New York, NY
: Intimate Views, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY
1989: Master of Fine Arts, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
1984: Artists Collections, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

Literature

2013: “Goings on About Town: Art,” The New Yorker, May 1, 2013
2012: Green, Penelope. "Their Own Museum." New York Times 19 Sept. 2012: n. pag.
: "About the Artist." ArtSpace (2012)
: Busra, Erkara. "Portia Munson of PPOW Gallery on Her Pink Project, Consumerism and Hoarders." Bullet Magazine Feb. 2012: n pag
: "Contemporary Color Theory and Use." Chapter 3 2012th ser. (n.d.): n. pag. Print
: The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2012
: Oppenheimer Collection, James Printing Company, Kansas City, MO, USA 2012
2011: Living Here, KTD Monastery, 2011
2010: The Celebrity Art Collection on Eclipse. April 2010. p. 86
2007: Oppenheimer Collection, First Edition. 2007.p. 108-109
: Cornucopia Documenting the Land of Plenty. Montserrat College of Art, MA USA. (catalogue) 2007
: Portia Munson: Green. Exhibition catalogue. PPOW Gallery, NY; interview with the artist, 2007
: Claire, Marie. "Marie Claire Notes: Reproduction of Orange Dafodil." (Italian): 113. Jan. 2007
2006: Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. Edited by Barbara Nemitz. Hatja Cantz, NY, USA 2006
2004: "Collecting." The Andy Warhol Museum. Education News (n.d.): 6+. Fall 2004
2002 - 2003: Elastic; Printed Project 2002/2003, Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council
2002: Artist to Artist: A Decade of The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, (catalogue) 2002
1998: The Ornament of the Masses, Kunstahallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odensec, Denmark, curated by Dr. Andreas Jurgensen 1998
1997: American Art Today: The Garden, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA (catalogue) 1997
1996: Art Omni 1996, Fellowship/Residency, Omni, NY, USA 1996
1995: ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, (catalogue and CD-ROM), 1995
: Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues with the Surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA curated by Jeffrey Keough & Ann Wilson Lloyd (catalogue), 1995
: Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (catalogue), 1995
: "The Beauty Mistique." New Women (n.d.): 42+. Oct. 1995
1994: Brutus. "Speed Up for Sex Art." ((Japanese): 24-26. 15 June 1994
: "Bad Girls." The New Yorker (n.d.): 17. 16 Jan. 1994
: Portia Munson: Paintings and Pink, Yoshii Gallery, NY, essay by Leslie Camhi. Nature Morte, (catalogue), 1994
: Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, (catalogue), 1994
: Update '93, White Columns, New York, NY, (catalogue), 1993

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Portia Munson

(American)

Portia Munson

Portia Munson

Portia Munson

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

Portia Munson

(American)

Portia Munson

Portia Munson

Portia Munson

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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