Born in Buenos Aires in 1941, Liliana Porter studied at the Escuela Nacional de 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 1960s. Selected museum and institutional exhibitions include Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, NY (2026–2027); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2025); Museo Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain (2024); Dia Bridgehampton, Bridgehampton, NY (2024); Dia Chelsea, New York, NY (2024); San José Museum of Art, San José, CA (2023–2024); Les Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse, France (2023); El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (2019); Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL (2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018); 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2017); Art Omi, Ghent, NY (2017); and Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (2017). Additional exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. An upcoming exhibition is scheduled at Louvre-Lens, Lens, France (2026).

Her work is included in major museum collections, including Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.