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Jenelle Porter is an American art curator and author of numerous exhibition catalogs and essays about contemporary art and craft. She has curated important exhibitions that have helped studio craft to gain acceptance as fine arts. These include the exhibitions Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (co-curated with Ingrid Schaffner) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia in 2009 and Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2014. [1] [2]
She 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]
2021
Kay Sekimachi: Geometries, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California.
2019
Less is A Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting, Hauser & Wirth, New York
2017
A Line Can Go Anywhere, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2016
2015
2014
2013
Christina Ramberg, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Jeffrey Gibson, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
Mary Reid Kelley, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Trisha Donnelly, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2007
Jay Heikes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2006
Gone Formalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
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