Jenelle Porter

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Jenelle Porter is an American art curator and author of exhibition catalogs and essays about contemporary art and craft. She has curated exhibitions that have helped studio craft to gain acceptance as fine arts, including Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (co-curated with Ingrid Schaffner) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2009) and Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2014). [1] [2]

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Education

Porter obtained her BA in art history from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1994, and went on to obtain an MA in critical and curatorial studies from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. [3]

Curatorial positions

From 1994 to 1997 Porter was curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. From 1997 to 1998 she was curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Between 1998 and 2001 she was curator at the Artists Space in New York. [4] From 2005 to 2011 she was curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and from 2011 to 2015 she was senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. [5] Since 2015 she has been an independent curator based in Los Angeles. [6]

Selected exhibitions/curatorial activities

YearExhibitionLocation
2006Gone FormalismInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2007Jay Heikes
2008Trisha Donnelly
2009 Dance with Camera
Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay
2010 Mineral Spirits: Anne Chu and Matthew Monahan
2011 Jessica Jackson Hutchins Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Charline von Heyl
2012 Figuring Color: Kathy Butterfly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Dianna Molzan, Grand Tourist
2013Christina Ramberg
Jeffrey Gibson
Mary Reid Kelley
2014 Fiber Sculpture, 1960–present
Nick Cave
Matthew RitchieInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2015 Erin Shirreff
Arlene Schechet: All at Once [7] [8]
2016 Beverly Center Renovation Installation Projects Hammer Museum [9]
2017A Line Can Go AnywhereJames Cohan Gallery, New York
2019Less is A Bore: Maximalist Art & DesignInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston [10]
Mike Kelley: Timeless PaintingHauser & Wirth, New York
2021Kay Sekimachi: GeometriesBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California
2023Barbara T. Smith: ProofInstitute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [11]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Adamson, Glenn (January 13, 2020). "Why the Art World Is Embracing Craft". Artsy. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  2. ↑ Feldman, Melissa E. (June 2009). "Dirt on Delight Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA". Frieze (124). Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Curator Jenelle Porter Takes New Position at ICA Boston" (PDF). Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Deleget, Matthew (April 9, 2008). "Dr. Art on Curating: Jenelle Porter of Artists Space". New York Foundation for the Arts. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Hollands, Courtney (May 2013). "ICA Senior Curator Jenelle Porter's Favorite Things". Boston Magazine. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Innovations in Textiles 10". Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Rudick, Dina (July 21, 2015). "'Arlene Shechet: All at Once,' by Jenelle Porter". Boston Globe. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
  8. ↑ "'Arlene Shechet: All at Once,' by Jenelle Porter". Boston Globe. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Catherine Opie, Geof McFetridge Artworks Unveiled as Part of Beverly Center Renovations". The Hollywood Reporter . 14 September 2016.
  10. ↑ Murray Whyte (2019-06-28). "ICA exhibit takes art and design to the max". The Boston Globe. Boston, USA. p. 4.
  11. ↑ Christopher Knight (2023-11-03). "Inside a savvy artist". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, USA. p. 3.
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