Artist Bio
Portia Munson is a visual artist who works in a variety of media including installation, painting, photography and sculpture.
Solo shows include exhibitions at PPOW Gallery, Yoshii Gallery and Silverstein Gallery in NYC among others. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US, Canada and Europe in such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland; the Kunstahallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odensec, Denmark; and in NYC at the New Museum, Ace Gallery, Exit Art, and DC Moore Gallery.
She holds a BFA from Cooper Union and a MFA from Rutgers UV, Munson has received fellowships and/or residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, Skowhegan, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among others. Her work has been reviewed and written about in many publication including Harper’s, The New York Times, Art in America, Newsweek, USA Today, The New Yorker, Flash Art and Artforum. Portia Munson lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York with her husband Jared Handelsman and their two children.