Jenelle Porter

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]}

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

• 1994 to 1997: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curatorial assistant
• 1997 to 1998: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, curatorial fellow
• 1998 to 2001: Artists Space, New York, curator ^[4]
• 2005 to 2011: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, curator
• 2011 to 2015: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, senior curator ^[5]
• 2015 to present: Los Angeles, independent curator ^[6]

Selected exhibitions/curatorial activities

Year	Exhibition	Location
2006	Gone Formalism	Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2007	Jay Heikes	Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2008	Trisha Donnelly	Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
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	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2013	Christina Ramberg	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
	Jeffrey Gibson	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
	Mary Reid Kelley	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2014	Fiber Sculpture, 1960–present	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
	Nick Cave
	Matthew Ritchie	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2015	Erin Shirreff	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
	Arlene Schechet: All at Once	[7] [8]
2016	Beverly Center Renovation Installation Projects	Hammer Museum [9]
2017	A Line Can Go Anywhere	James Cohan Gallery, New York
2019	Less is A Bore: Maximalist Art & Design	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston [10]
	Mike Kelley: Timeless Painting	Hauser & Wirth, New York
2021	Kay Sekimachi: Geometries	Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California
2023	Barbara T. Smith: Proof	Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [11]

Selected publications

• Schaffner, Ingrid; Porter, Jenelle (2009). Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Philadelphia. ISBN   9780884541172.
• Morineau, Camille; Pesapane, Lucia (2015). Ceramix: From Rodin to Schütte. Maastricht-Paris-Sèvres. ISBN   9789461612519.
• Pepich, Bruce; McQuaid, Matilda; Porter, Jenelle; Stapleton, Lyssa (2016). The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press. ISBN   9780974516899.
• Hatley, Pan; Porter, Jenelle; Chaffee, Cathleen (2015). Erin Shirreff (art exhibition). Albright-Knox Art Gallery. ISBN   9781887457187.

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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