Jenelle Porter

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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]

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Education

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]

Curatorial positions

Selected exhibitions/curatorial activities

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

Reviews of exhibitions

Selected publications

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