Education
1990 Master of Fine Arts, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1987 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1983 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
1978-1979 The Arts Students League, New York, NY
1978 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

One Person Exhibitions
2007 Green, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.
2006

Portia Munson: Installation and Images, Muroff Kotler Gallery, SUNY, Stoneridge, NY.

2005 Portia Munson: Flower Mandalas, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.
2001 Green Piece: Lawn, School House Center Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
1997 Pink Space, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY.
1996 The Garden, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY.
1996-1999 Pink Project; Bedroom, Hotel, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY.
1994 Paintings and Pink, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY, (catalogue).
1993 White Room, White Columns, New York, NY.

Group Exhibitions
2008 PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W Gallery , New York, NY

Locally Grown, Albany International Airport,
Albany, NY

Repetitive Nature
, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
2007

Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of the Plenty, Montserrat College of Art Galleries, Beverly, MA

Oasis, Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Flushing , NY

Art Chicago Art Fair, P·P·O·W Gallery, Chicago, IL

Tuttavia Povero!, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ

New Hudson 3, Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY.

Pink Project: Contained, Hemphill Gallery, Washington, DC.

2006

PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL.

Out of Context: Contemporary Photography in the Landscape, The Fields Sculpture Park at Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY.

In Side Out, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY.

War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Cowgirls, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY.

7 + 14, Kleiner/James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY.
2005 Utopia, No Place, Like Home, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY.

Nature, curated by Fawn Potash & Laurie Ferdett, Catskill Mt Foundation Gallery, Hunter, NY.

This is Not an Archive, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY.

Flowers/Kwiaty, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY.

Hope Auction Benefit, Gavin Brown Enterprise’ Passerby, New York, NY.

2004 On Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY.

Spec(k)tacular, curated by Kimberly Hart, Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

Tracks, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY.

Wish You Were Here III, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.

2003 Portia Munson & Lee Musselman, Historical Materialism, Hudson, NY.

Nature Hanging by a Thread, Queen Theatre in Park, Flushing, NY.

Compost, Gallery at The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

2002 Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue).

Color of the Avant Garde, Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

Reaction, Exit Art, New York, NY.

Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY.

2001 Spitting Image, Art Gallery at Stamford University of CN, Stamford, CN.

FAWC Fellows 1986-2001, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; & The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA.

The Darkside, Colony Cafe, Woodstock, NY.

2000 C-Scape Dune Shack 1995-2000, School House Center Silas-Kenyon Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

Yaddo Centennial, curated by Garry MitchellThe Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Fixation: Obsession in Contemporary Art, curated by Andrea Inselman, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WY.

The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by 60 Women, curated by Dr. Judith Stein, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY.

1999 The Petite Format, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY.

Color, Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

Alan Sonfist & Portia Munson, Art Gallery of the University of S. Maine, Gorham, ME.

1998 The Ornament of the Masses, curated by Dr. Andreas Jurgensen, Kunstahallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odensec, Denmark (catalogue).

Along the Garden Path, curated by Linda Weintraub, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE. (catalogue).

Food Matters, curated by Stuart Horodner, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.

1997 Fetish, curated by Renee Baert, Art Gallery of Windsor, Montreal, Canada (catalogue).

Pink, curated by Lisa Wainwright, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL.

American Art Today: The Garden, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL. (catalogue).

Figuring Women's Lives, Kingsborogh Community College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

1996 Obsession, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.

Body Language, curated by Judith Page & Adam Strauss, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL (catalogue).

In This Time and Place, College Art Gallery, SUNY at New Paltz, NY.

Four Artists, College Center Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Women Artists, Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue).

20/20, curated by Lee Musselman, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (catalogue).

ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue and CD-ROM).

Benefit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Scratch: Benefit, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (catalogue and benefit exhibition).

1995 Insight, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY.

Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues with the Surreal, curated by Jeffrey Keough & Ann Wilson Lloyd, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (catalogue).

Kunstkabinett, curated by Sean Ellwood, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.

Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue).

Foil Project, College of Design, Iowa University, Ames, IA collaboration with Jared Handelsman.

Pleasant Pebble, curated by Mary Jones & Janice Kransnow, The Work Space, New York, NY.

Domestic Disturbance, curated by Allan Frame & Katherine Herndon, Delta Axis, Memphis, TN.

New Forms, curated by Ann Wilson LloydCape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA.

Bibliomania, curated by Nadine Verdan Heller, Eighth Floor Project Space, New York, NY.

1994 Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (catalogue).

Pink Window, Art in General, New York, NY (catalogue).

The Women's Health Show, City College Gallery and A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY.

Contemporary Still Life, curated by Laura Reuter, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.

Evolutions, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

Sololoquies, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA.

1993 1920, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY.

Update '93, White Columns, New York, NY (catalogue).

Songs of Retribution, curated by Nancy Spero, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY.

Pimpinette, curated by David Goldsmith & Anki Juhanisdotter, Villa Val Lemme, Capriata d'Orba, Italy.

Art Umjetnost, Obala Theater, Obala, Sarajevo.

1992 Women & Surrealism, curated by MaryJane Jacob, Women's Caucus for Art, Artemesia Society, Chicago, IL.

Still Life Today, Scott Alan Fine Arts, New York, NY.

1990 Brut 90, curated by Bill Arning, White Columns, New York, NY.

Intimate Views, Soho Center For Visual Artists, New York, NY.

1989 Master of Fine Arts, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ.
1984 Artists Collections, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

Grants & Fellowships
1999-2000 Second Year Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Fellowship/Residency, Provincetown, MA
1998-1999 Yaddo Fellowship/Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1999 NY Foundation for the Arts and RCCA, Special Opportunity Stipend (also in 1996 & 1992)
1997-1998 MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Fellowship/Residency, Peterborough, NH
1997 C-Scape Dune Shack, Fellowship/Residency, Provincetown, MA
1996-1997 Maria Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, Fellowship, New York, NY
1996 Art Omni, Fellowship/Residency, Omni, NY (catalogue)
1994 Art Matters, Inc., Fellowship, New York, NY
1993-1994 Berta Walker Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Fellowship/Residency, Provincetown, MA
1992-1993 MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Fellowship/Residency, Peterborough, NH
1990 Artists Space, Individual Artist Grant, New York, NY

Bibliography

Portia Munson: Green. Exhibition catalogue. PPOW Gallery, NY; interview with the artist, 2007.

Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. Edited by Barbara Nemitz. Hatja Cantz,
NY, 2006.

Artist to Artist: A Decade of The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, (catalogue) 2002.

The Ornament of the Masses, Kunstahallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odensec, Denmark, curated by Dr. Andreas Jurgensen 1998.

American Art Today: The Garden, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, (catalogue) 1997.

Art Omni 1996, Fellowship/Residency, Omni, NY, 1996.

ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, (catalogue and CD-ROM), 1995.

Elastic; Printed Project 2002/2003, Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council. elastic@dirtymouse.net

Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues with the Surreal, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, curated by Jeffrey Keough & Ann Wilson Lloyd (catalogue), 1995.

Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue), 1995.

Portia Munson: Paintings and Pink, Yoshii Gallery, NY, essay by Leslie Camhi. Nature Morte. (catalogue), 1994.

Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY , (catalogue), 1994.

Update '93, White Columns, New York, NY, (catalogue), 1993.


Film

Blackwood, Michael, Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America,1995. a film


Selected Articles / Publications / Media

Exit, Flowers:Volume 28, November 2007, Madrid, Spain. Reproduction of All Pink, Magnolia, &          Bulbs.

The Andy Warhol Museum; Education News, “Collecting,” Fall 2004, photo pg. 6 & 9.

Art Matters Calendar, 1996 (February).

The Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Weekend Preview," Friday, September 15, 1996, pg. 16.

Brutus, "Speed Up for Sex Art," June 15, 1994, photos pp. 24-26. In Japanese.

Graz 2002, photos pp.10-11. In German.

Harper's Magazine, "Reading/And...," April 1997, photo pg.. 85.

Hudson Valley Magazine, Art: “Polly’s Picks”, August 2004, photo pg. 90.

Manhattan File, "Vitrine Duty," September 1995, photo pg. 85.

M/E/A/N/I/N/G #19-20, "Medicine Cabinet," 1996, photo pp. 7-8.

M/E/A/N/I/N/G #16, "Working Conditions: A Forum on Art and Everyday Life by Young Artists," 1994, pg. 25.

New Women, "The Beauty Mystique," October 1995, photos pp. 42, 144-145.

The New York Times, "The Art of Bad Girls," January 16, 1994, section 9, pg. 7.

The New Yorker, "Bad Girls," January 16, 1994, pg. 17.

Painting Faculty, Cooper Union School of Art, 1995, pg. 17 (catalogue).

Promotional Copy, Robin Kahn, ed., 1993 photo pg. 260.

Sculpture, "American Art Today: The Garden," January 1997, Vol. 16, No. 1, photo pg. 56.

Avgikos, Jan. "Bad Girl Blues," Artforum, May 1994, photo pg. 87.

Baker, Kenneth, "Bad Girls in NY...," San Francisco Cronical/Examiner, February 27, 1994, Datebook pg. 35.

Beghtol, LD. "Southern Discomfort," Memphis Flyer, March 16-22, 1995, photo pg. 21.

Brock, Hovey. "Portia Munson," ARTnews, January 1995, photo pg. 164.

Callahan, Maureen and France, Kim. "Girls! Girls! Girls!," Spin, November 1997, photo pg. 93.

Camhi, Leslie. "Women on the Verge, Yayoi Kusama..," Village Voice, July 1998.

Cash, Stephanie. "Portia Munson at Yoshii," Art in America, December 1994, photo pg. 104.

Cassai, Mary. “On Paper” features works from high-tech to hand-made, Daily Freeman, July 2, 2004, pg. 6.

Cotter, Holland. "Pretty in Pink?," The New York Times, October 1994, pg. C30.

Ebony, David. "The NYC Top Ten," Art/Icons, April 1996, photo, (web site http://www.articons.com/ebony).

Edelman, Robert G. "Intimate Views," ARTnews, March 1991, p. 143.

Ekeberg, Jones. "The Strength of Prettiness," Siksi Nordic Art Review, January 1995, photo pp. 24-25.

Fechner-Smarshy, Thomas. "ARS 95 Standort-Bestimmung in Helsinki," Neue Bilbende Kunst, Issue # 2, April-May 1996, photo. In German.

Forman, Debbie. "Portia Munson...," Cape Week, October 27, 1995, photos cover & pg. 3.

Fujimori, Manami. "Cute?," BT Magazine, February 1996, photos cover & pp. 20-21. In Japanese.

Gamerman, Amy. "Bad Girls Make 'Bad' Art," The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 1994.

Girl or Gallery Girl, "Portia Munson," Bust, Spring 2000, photo pg. 112.

Glueck, Grace. "A Broader View of Feminism," The New York Observer, February 7, 1994.

Gourma-Peterson, Tahliaand Matthews, Patricia. "The Feminist Critique of Art History," Understanding Feminist Art,Vision and Word: 1994.

Trans. from Art Bulletin, 1989, by Su-Kyung Lee, photos & cover pp. 38-39. In Korean.

Gude, Olivia. "Color Coding," Art Journal, Spring 1999, cover & pp. 25-26.

Haus, Mary. "Funny, Really Funny," ARTnews, April 1994, pg. 27.

Hess, Elizabeth. " And Everything Nice?," Village Voice, February 1, 1994, pg. 83.

Hirsch, Fay. "Portia Munson," Artforum, Summer 1996, photo pp. 109-110.

HO, Paul. Art/Net World Wide Web Magazine, April 1996, photos cover page & article, (web site http://www.artnewt.com).

Holt, Stephanie. "Tricky Business", World Art, Vol. 1, No.2, 1994, photo pp.32-33.

Jeffers, Grace. “Portia Munson - Flower Mandalas,” Personalities, www.wilsonart.com /design/statement/index.asp, June 2005

Jesella, Kara. "High Times," Nylon, February 2002, photo pg.63.

Jones, Amelia. “Feminism & Art”, Artforum, October 2003, photo pp.143.

Kivirinta, Marja-Terttu. Helsinki Sonamat, February 5, 1995, photo pg. B3. In Finnish.

Kramer, Mark. "Related by Blood," New York Newsday, September 22, 1994, pp. B4-5.

Levin, Kim and Aletti, Vince. "Our Biennial," Village Voice, January 21, 1997, pg. 85.

Levin, Kim. "Voice Choices," Village Voice, April 2, 1996, photo pg.

Liese, Jennifer, "On the Other Side of the Mall, A Conversation with Portia Munson," Ten By Ten, Vol. 1, 2000, No. 2, photos pp. 22-25.

Lloyd, Ann Wilson and Keough, Jeffrey. "Feminism and the Sculptural Object," Provincetown Arts, Vol. 11, Annual Issue, 1995, pp. 46-48.

Mahoney, Robert. Time Out New York, April 10-17, 1996. Issue 29, photo pg. 29.

Mandell, Pamela. "Portia Munson: A Beautiful Suffocation" Provincetown Arts, Vol. 12, Annual Issue, 1996, photo pp. 93-94.

McCornaughy, Claire. "Portia Munson," Flash Art, March-April 1995, photo pp. 104-105.

Norklun, Kathi. "Think Pink," Woodstock Times, August 15, 1996, photo pg. 19.

Phillips, Patricia C. Review Magazine, April 1, 1996, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 5-6.

Plagens, Peter. "Bad Girls for Goodness' Sake," Newsweek, February 14, 1994, photo pg. 53.

Pochron, JP. "Roughing It," The Cape Cod Times, August 1999, photo pp. 14 & 18.

Quattro, Joe. "Womanly Endurance," Bay Windows, October 12, 1995, photo pg. 34.

Raven, Arlene. "Marching On," Village Voice, April 6, 1993, pg. 93.

Rich, Ruby. "Bad Girl Art," Elle, January 1994, photo pp. 64-65.

Schaffner, Ingrid. "Bad Girls," Parachute, October/November/December 1994, photo pp. 63-65.

Scobie, Ilka. “Petal Perfection,” Artnet Magazine, January 10, 2007.

Servatar, Stuart. New York Press, April 3-9, 1996, pg. 74.

Sheets, Hibrie M. "The Oranges are Alive," Art News, March 2000, photo pp. 118-120.

Smart, Paul. "Far From Chelsea," Almanac, The Woodstock Times, June 27, 2002, pg. 6.

Smart, Paul. “Munson’s Mandalas,” Almanac, Ulster Publishing, June 24, 2004, photos front page & pp. 10-11.

Smart, Paul. “Strang Bed Fellows,” Almanac, Ulster Publishing, September 16, 2004, pg. 10.

Smith, Roberta. “Portia Munson: Green,” The New York Times, January 26, 2007. p. E33.

Smith, Roberta. “Artist to Artist,” The New York Times, May 24, 2002.

Smith, Roberta. "A Raucous Caucus of Feminists Being Bad," The New York Times, January 12, 1994, pg. C5.

Stapen, Nancy. "Feminine Dialogues; A Tempest from Oppenheim's Teacup," Boston Sunday Globe, January 29, 1995.

Stevens, Mark. "The Best of New York," New York Magazine, April 15, 1996.

Stoller, Debbie. Bust, Vol. 1, 1993, No. 1 & 2, photos centerfolds.

Styce, John." The Cape as Installation," Provincetown Arts, Vol. 15, Annual Issue, 2000. photo pp. 138-139.

Swenson, Kristen. " Portia Munson at P.P.O.W," Art in America, June/July 2006. p202.

Szabo, Julia. "Thinking Pink," View on Color, 4th Issue, 1994, photo pp. 87-88.

Tasker, Georgia. "Creativity Flowers...," The Miami Herald, January 19, 1997, photo pp. 1H & 9H.

Tuner, Elisa. "Gardens," The Miami Herald Tribune, January 21, 1997, Section 1, photo pp. 1 & 31.

White, Rachel. (a collaboration; FAWC Fellows), Provincetown Arts, Vol. 15, Annual Issue, 2000, photo pp. 104-107.

Wilson, Beth E., “Being There”, Chronogram, Febuary 2005, pg, 29.

Winfield, Nicole. "The Exhibition That Wants To Have Fun," Associated Press, January 31, 1994.

Zimmerman, David. "A Good Time with Bad Girls," USA Today. January 27, 1994.


Visiting Artist / Lectures
2003 The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

2001 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

2000 School House Center, Provincetown, MA, “Obsession” organized by Nick Flynn.

2000 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

1999 Maine Collage of Art, Portland, ME.

1999 University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME.

1998 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.

1998 Women’s Caucus for Art, Philadelphia, PA.

1996 The New Museum of Contemporery Art, New York, NY.

1995 CAL Arts, Los Angeles, CA.

1995 Massachusetts Collage of Art, Boston, MA.

1995 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

1995 Memphis School of Art, Memphis, TN.

1995 Collage of Design, Iowa University, Ames, IA.

1994 University of Massachusets at Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA.


Teaching Positions

1996-1998 Vassar Collage, Pokeepsie, NY.

1997-1998 Purchase Collage, The State University of New York, Purchase, NY.


Porita Munson's Work is in Numerous Private Collections.