Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, Liliana Porter studied at the Escuela Nacionalde Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires (1954–58) and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (1958–61). Her diverse oeuvre comprises printmaking, works on canvas, drawings, and time-based media as well as installations and public art projects. Porter began her career as a printmaker and worked at the Pratt Graphic Art Center in Manhattan in the mid-1960s, shortly after arriving in the United States. Among her most celebrated early works was a series of photoengravings and installations of sheets of crumpled paper from the 1960s that troubled obvious distinctions between object and image and cemented Porter’s reputation as an important early exponent of conceptualism. Liliana Porter lives and works between New York City and Rhinebeck, NY. 

Her work has been shown internationally since the 1960’s. Select exhibitions include: MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2025); Museo Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain (2024); Dia Bridgehampton, NY (2024); Dia Chelsea, New York, NY (2024); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (2023-24); Les Abattoirs, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Toulouse, FR (2023); El Museo de Barrio, New York, NY (2019); The Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2018); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition, Italy (2017); ARTOMI, Ghent, NY (2017); and Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (2017). Upcoming exhibitions include ISLAA, New York, NY (2026) and Louvre-Lens, Lens, France (2026).

Her work is included in major museum collections including: TATE Modern, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museo de Bellas Artes de Santiago, Santiago, Chile; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Boston, MA; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX.