KATHERINE PORTER BORN 1941, Cedar Rapids, Iowa EDUCATION 1959-63

Colorado College, B.A.

1962

Boston University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007

“Color Coded”, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA

2006

Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME

2005

Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA

2003

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2001

Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA

1999

Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY

1996

Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA

1995

Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992

Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA The Graphic Art of Katherine Porter, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA

1991

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

1990

Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

1989

Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

1988

Nina Nielsen Gallery, New York, NY Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Richmond, VA

Knoedler Gallery, London 1987

University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, NY Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY

1986

William Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC David McKee Gallery, New York, NY

1985

Katherine Porter Paintings 1969-1984 (retrospective), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1984

David McKee Gallery, New York, NY Pace Gallery, Addison, ME Katherine Porter: I am American…Drawings and Small Paintings, Cape Split

1983

Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL Beaver College, Glenside, PA

1982

David McKee Gallery, New York, NY Colby College, Waterville, ME

1981

David McKee Gallery, New York, NY Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (drawings)

1980

Katherine Porter: Works on Paper 1969-1979, organized by the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, traveling to Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Harbor, CA

1979

Alpha Gallery (two-person exhibition), Boston, MA David McKee Gallery, New York, NY

1978

David McKee Gallery, New York, NY

1976

Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1975

David McKee Gallery, New York, NY

1974

Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA

1973

Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA

1972

Parker 470 Gallery, Boston, MA Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1971

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Parker 470 Gallery, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006

Threads of Memory, Dorsky Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, NY

2005

Presence, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA

Selected Works from Norma B. Marin’s Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono, ME 2004

Small Epiphanies, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA

2003

New Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA

2002

Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

2000

Beyond the Mountains, Tulane Art Museum, Boise Museum, New London University of CT Museum, Moskegan Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum, Newly Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Dillard Collection, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1999

Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC Gallery Artists, Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Painted Landscape, Ashville Museum of Art, Ashville, NC

1998

Masters of the Masters, Butler Institute, Ohio

1997

Abstract Painting, Snug Harbor Art Museum, Long Island, NY

1996

Painting Abstract, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Maier Museum, Randolph Macon College, Boston University Art Gallery, Cedar Rapids Art Museum Movement and Meaning, Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

1995

Abstraction, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA 10 + 10, Studio Art School Gallery, NY

1994

From the Collection of Edward Broida, Palm Beach Art Museum, Palm Beach, FL Voices, IPA, Boston, MA

1993

On the Edge, Portland Museum, Portland, ME

1992

Abstraction Per Se (through January 1993), Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY Painting Self-Evident (Curator), Picolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC

1990

Art on Paper 1990, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1989

The Painted Monotype, Michael Dunev, San Francisco, CA Belief in Paint: Eleven Contemporary Artists, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT Field and Frame, Meyer Shapiro’s Semiotics of Painting, NY Studio School, NY A Selection of Works, Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, NY Museo Barjola, Gijon, Spain; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY Sightings, Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona; Casa Revilla, Valladolid, Spain

1988

Making Their Mark, Cincinnatti Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts 40th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY New Work/New York, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS;

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1988 Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT 1987

Three from Waldo County: Prints by Porter, Yvonne Jacquette, and Gilbert Cass, Gallery 68, Belfast, ME Beyond Reductive Tendencies, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY Atelier Project, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY Invitational Exhibition, Siegel Contemporary, NY Landscape Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY AIDS Benefit, Rosa Esman, NY National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Iowa Arts Council, traveling exhibition, Des Moines, IA

1986

National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Rethinking the Avant-Garde, by Jonathan Fineberg, The Katonah Gallery, NY Born in Iowa: The Homecoming Exhibition, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY

1985

An American Renaissance: Painting/Sculpture since 1945, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL Group Show, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland Between Abstraction and Reality, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NY Contemporary Drawings from the Last Three Decades, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1984

Hassam Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY Location: A 20-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Painting and Sculpture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI Humanism and Undercurrents, University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, FL An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY Modern Expressionist: German, Italian, & American Painters, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY American Women Artists, Part II: Younger Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY Mari Michener, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX

1983

Contemporary Works on Paper, Frumkin-Adams Gallery, NY Hassam Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY Invitational, Brown University, Providence, RI The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse, The New York Museum of Contemporary Art, NY Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Homage to Arthur Dove, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Six Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Twenty New York Painters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 1981

Currents: A New Mannerism (Part II), Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, FL 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Abstract Image, Hamilton Gallery, NY Abstract Painting, Women’s Caucus, NY Abstract Mythologies, Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1980

Painterly Abstraction, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY

1979

Drawing Now, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA New Options in Painterly Abstraction, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, NY New York: A Selection From the Last Ten Years, curated by Betty Parsons, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA Works on Paper, USA, selected by Stephen Greene, Rockland Center for the Arts, NY

1978

Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Atlantic Gallery, Boston, MA Recent Acquisitions from the HHK Foundation, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI Spoleto Choice, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC

1977

From Women’s Eyes, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Theodoran, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1973

Boston Collects Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Six Visions, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1972

Twelve From Around Town, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA

1970

Drawings Re-examined, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Six Artists, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA Studio Coalition, Boston, MA

1969

Three if by air, Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Insights, Parker 470 Gallery, Boston, MA Collaboration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1967

Betty Parsons Collection, Finch College, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Stacey Moss, “Full Powers: The Recent Paintings and Drawings of Katherine Porter in Context” (essay for the exhibition catalogue), Katherine Porter: Paintings and Drawings, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 1991, pp. 5-15. Edgar Allen Beem, “Abstract Conflicts: Katherine Porter Takes the Political Personally,” Maine Times, May 31, 1991, pp. 1-3. Mickey Walker, “Bowdoin Show Does Porter Proud,” The Waldo Independent, May 30, 1991. Kimberly Cannon, “Porter Paintings Glow,” The Times Record, May 23, 1991, p. 17. Margot McWilliams, “Katherine Porter: Paintings, Drawings,” Casco Bay Weekly, May 9, 1991. Sherry Miller, “Porter Works Turn Loose the Mind,” Maine Sunday Telegraph, May 5, 1991, p. 9G. Shirley Jacks, “Katherine Porter at Bowdoin College,” Greater Portland Magazine, April-May 1991, pp. 35-7. “Porter Show Opens: Recent Paintings, Drawings Featured at Bowdoin,” The Times Record, April 25, 1991, p. 13. Sigrid Freundorfer, A Selection of Works (catalogue), Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, 1989. Donald Kustpit, Sightings: Drawings with Color (catalogue), Schafler Gallery, 1989. Sue Allison, “Her Infinite Variety,” Life, June 1989, p. 64. Nancy Princenthal, “Katherine Porter at Andre Emmerich,” Art in America, February 1989, pp. 161-2. Kenna Simmons, “Making Waves,” Horizon, January/February 1989, pp. 37-40. Elizabeth Hayt-Atkins, “Katherine Porter at Andre Emmerich,” ARTnews, January 1989, p. 130. Wendy Beckett, Contemporary Women Artists, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1988, p. 86. Theodore Wolff, “Many of today’s best artists are women, but recognition lags,” Christian Science Monitor, 1987. Susan Wadsworth, “Political and Moral Landscapes: The Paintings of Katherine Porter,” Arts, September, 1987. Shirley Jacks, “A political painter tackles the world from a loft in Belfast,” Maine Sunday Telegram, August 23, 1987, p. 42A. Tessa Melvin, “Original Paints at the Neuberger by 16 Artists in Atelier Project,” The New York Times, April 27, 1987. Marsha Miro, Review in The Detroit Free Press, March 24, 1987, p. 54. Kay Larson, “Guerilla Tactics,” Review in The New York Times, February 2, 1987, p. 54. Sam Hunter, An American Renaissance (catalogue), Museum of Art, Fort. Lauderdale, FL, 1986. Barbara Rose, Vogue, 1986. William Corbett, Boston Review of the Arts, 1985. Grace Glueck, “Art: Modern Shows Off Some of Best Drawings,” 1985. Katherine Porter (catalogue), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1985. Michael Brenson, “Between Abstraction and Reality,” The New York Times, March 1, 1985. Beth Crichlow, “Katherine Porter’s Painting Come Home to Belfast from the Big City,” The Republican Journal, December 13, 1984, p. 2. Michael Brenson, “Katherine Porter,” The New York Times, October 12, 1984.

Hearne Pardee, “Six Painters at the Hudson River Museum: To Probe and Extend the Resources of Painting,” Arts, September 1983, pp. 69-71. John Russell, “Six Painters at the Hudson River Museum,” The New York Times, July 8, 1983. Robert Storr, “Katherine Porter,” Art in America, May 1983. Steven Westfall, “Katherine Porter,” Arts, February 1983. Joan Simon, “The Expressionist Question 1,” Interview with Katherine Porter, Art in America, December 1982. Dave Smith, “An Art Brouhaha by the Bay,” Calendar, February 7, 1982, pp. 6-7. “Political Furor at Moscone Center,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 1, 1981, p. 3. Steven Westfall, “Katherine Porter,” Arts, June 1981. Calvin Thompkins, “Three Salons,” The New Yorker, April 13, 1981, pp. 112-116. John Russell, “Juicy Abstractions by Katherine Porter,” The New York Times, February 27, 1981. Hilton Kramer, “A Strategy for Viewing the Biennial,” The New York Times, February 6, 1981, p. C18. Edward Lucie-Smith, Art in the Seventies, Oxford: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 1980, pp. 44-5. Hal Foster, “Katherine Porter,” Artforum, November 1980. Robert McDonald, “Structuring the Grid,” Artweek, March 29, 1980. Stacey Moss, “A Lesson in abstract art at the Legion of Honor,” The Peninsula Times Tribune, March 14, 1980, p. C11. Al Morch, “An Artist who keeps growing,” San Francisco Examiner, March 3, 1980, p. 29. Hedy O’Beil, Artspeak, February 14, 1980, p. 5. Betty Parsons, New York: A Selection from the Last Ten Years (catalogue), Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1979. Michael Phillips, New Options in Painterly Abstraction (catalogue), Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 1979. John Yau, Review in Art in America, December 1979. Pamela Allara, “Boston: Shedding Its Inferiority Complex,” ArtNews, November 1979. Laura Ross, “Depth Beyond the Surface,” Vision, September/October/November 1979. Edgar Buonagurio, Review in Arts, September 1979. Peter Schjeldahl, Review in Artsforum, Summer 1979. Hedy O’Beil, Review in Arts, June 1979. “The Roots of Abstraction,” Arts Canada, May-June 1979, illustrated in color, p. 20. David L. Shirley, “An Exhibition in Praise of Paper,” The New York Times, May 13, 1979. Artworld, April 16, 1979. Soho News, March 29, 1979. Vivien Raynor, Review in The New York Times, March 18, 1978. William Zimmerman, “Airing Out the Grid,” Soho News, March 16, 1978. Nine Artists: Theodoran Awards (catalogue), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, 1977. Bonnie Saulnier, From Women’s Eyes (catalogue), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, 1977. Robert Taylor, “Women’s Eyes a stimulating exhibit,” The Boston Sunday Globe, May 15, 1977, p. A10.

Robert Taylor, “Fitting rectangles into abstract,” The Boston Globe, December 13, 1976, p. 30. Stacey Moss, Review in Art in America, May-June 1976. Peter Frank, Review in Artnews, February 1976. Ann Sargent-Wooster, Review in Artforum, February 1976. Noel Frackman, Review in Arts, January 1976. Nan Arghyros, “Katherine Porter, Painter,” New Boston Review, June 1975. Wayne Anderson, Katherine Porter (catalogue), Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1974. Kay Larson, “Reaching Toward the Abstract Sublime,” The Real Paper, December 4, 1974, pp. 22-3. Robert Taylor, “Katherine Porter’s new work seen at MIT,” The Boston Globe, December 1, 1974. Nora Laskey, “Art: New Mexico in the Abstract,” The Real Paper, May 16, 1973. Charles Giuliano, “Travels Along the Studio Coalition Route…,” Boston After Dark, February 29, 1972, pp. 2, 20. Seymour Kasienz, “There’s Art in Them Thayer Hall,” Boston After Dark, February 29, 1972, pp. 2, 20. Carl Palazzolo, “Katherine Porter,” The Boston Review of the Arts, June 20, 1971. Michael Phillips, “A Portrait of the artist as a young woman,” The Boston Review of the Arts, June 20, 1971. Edgar Driscoll, “Boston’s young Artists Studio Coalition opens lofts to public,” The Boston Evening Globe, March

18, 1970, p. 21.

Carol LeBrun, “New Wave Bursts onto Art Scene in Boston,” Sunday Herald Traveler, August 31, 1969. Edgar Driscoll, “Blossoms in Profusion,” The Boston Sunday Globe, May 25, 1969, p. 35. Christopher Andreae, “Coalition: Artists Open Studios,” The Guardian Science Monitor, February 1, 1969, p. 4. HONORS 1992

Honorary Doctorate, Bowdoin College, Maine

1982

Honorary Doctorate, Colby College, Maine

1972

National Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Bowdoin College Museums of Art, Brunswick, ME Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Achenbach Foundation), San Francisco, CA Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, HI Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Gemeentsmuseum of the Hague, The Hague, Netherlands (permanent installation) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Mount Holyoke Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, Mount Holyoke, MA Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR Portland Museum of Fine Arts, Portland, ME Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA Stanford Museum of Fine Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Tel Aviv Museum, Jerusalem, Israel University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2000

Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1999

Visiting Critic, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1997

Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1996

Visiting Artist, American University, Washington, D.C.

1995

Visiting Artist, American University, Washington, D.C. Visiting Critic, Chataqua Summer Art Program Visiting Artist, State University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ

1994

Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Visiting Professor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1993

Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

1992

Visiting Professor, Boston University, Boston, MA

1990

Visiting Artist, Yale Summer School, Norfolk, CT Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

1988

Visiting Artist, American University, Washington, D.C.

1987

Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1986

Visiting Artist, Columbia University, New York, NY Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1985

Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1984

Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio School, Johnson, ME Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1983

Visiting Artist, Columbia University, New York, NY Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1982

Artist in Residence, Women’s Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

1981

Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1980

Visiting Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

1978

Visiting Artist, Boston Museum School, Boston, MA

1976

Instructor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1972

Instructor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA