Translations:Liliana Porter/1/en

Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1941 and educated at the Manuel Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón fine arts schools. She attended the print workshop at the Ernesto de la Cárcova Fine Arts School, led by the printmaker Fernando López Anaya, who together with Ana María Moncalvo would be her most influential teachers. Between 1958 and 1964 she was a resident of Mexico City, where she studied at the Ibero-American University and the La Ciudadela workshop with the Colombian artist Guillermo Silva Santamaría and the German Mathias Goeritz. While her first exhibitions took place in Mexico, she settled in New York in 1964 and lives in the city to this day. Along with the artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop print workshop. She has taught at the Porter-Wiener Studio, Printmaking Workshop, SUNY Purchase and the State University of New York, and also worked as a professor at Queens College and New York University.