Portia Munson

b. 1961, Beverly, MA, Lives and works in Catskill, NY

Education

1990
M.F.A. Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1987
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MEBFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

1983
B.F.A. Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Pink Bedroom, Museum of Sex, New York, NY

2022
Bound Angel, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Memento Mori, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
Portia Munson: Flood, The Newmark Gallery at Art Omi, Ghent, NY

2021
Memento Mori Mandalas, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY

2019
Pink Projects, Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
The Garden, Meridians, Art Basel, Miami, FL

2018
Her World/Her Room, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Flood, Disjecta, Portland, OR

2017
The Garden, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Earth Rites, NYU Langone Medical Center Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Little Suns, Hollow Bones, Cross Contemporary Art Gallery, Saugerties, NY
Dear Mother Nature, Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA

2013
Reflecting Pool, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2011
Color Forms, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

2010
Portia Munson, Liebowitz Gallery, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA

2007
Green, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Pink Project: Contained, Hemphill Gallery, Washington D.C.

2005
Flower Mandalas, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1996
The Garden, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY

1994
Paintings and Pink, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
Pink Project: Bedroom, Hotel, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY

1993
White Room, White Columns, New York, NY

Select Group Exhibitions

2024
Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending, 21c Bentonville, AR

2023
Rituals of Devotion, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Finders Keepers, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
Kaatsbaan Festival, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY
Noise for Now, YWCA, Kingston, NY

2022
Women’s Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY
Artists Draw Their Studios, curated by Michelle Weinberg, Marymount Manhattan College, Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York, NY
Kaatsbaan Festival, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY
A SENSE OF PLACE: Artists from the Woodstock Masters Series, Woodstock, NY

2021
Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending, 21c Louisville, Louisville, KY
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and our Contemporary Moment, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY
Bad Girls, wallspaceplease, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2019
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Drawn Together Again, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
CHEW: Food as Muse, Opalka Gallery- Sage College of Albany, Albany, NY

2018
Dime-Store Alchemy, curated by Jonathan Rider, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Spectrum, Curated by Kate Menconeri & Kiki Smith, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY
Cheeky: Summer Butts, Curated by Anthony Iacono & Peter LaBier, Marinaro, New York, NY
OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project at EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
Landmark, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY

2017
Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Herbarium, NYU Langone Medical Center Gallery, New York, NY
Garden Dwellers, Regina Rex, New York, NY
In Our Nature, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Out of Site, Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
Radical Kingdoms, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Pink Noise: Flexing the Frequency, Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2016
Tide is High, Colonel’s Row, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
Tie His Hands Gently, Romeo, New York, NY
Nature Pops, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
In Plain Air, Art Omi, Ghent, NY

2014
American Trash, eARThWE Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Skull Show, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

2013
Consumed: Nourishment and Indulgence, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Resonance: Audible Silence in Portraiture, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Ephemeral, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Convergence, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

2012
The Female Gaze, Women Artists Making Their World, Linda Lee Alter Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Dear Mother Nature, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY

2011
Oppenheimer Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

2010
Debris, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Objectophilia; Biennial of the Americas, Capsule, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
Botanica, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Digital to Physical, Patton-Malott Gallery, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
At the Edge, Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art, Portsmouth, NH

2009
Forces of Nature, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints-Portraits, IPCNY, New York, NY

2008
Garbage Picker! The Contemporary Artist as Chiffonier(e), curated by Amy Brandt, Affirmation Arts, New York, NY
Repetitive Nature, Concourse Gallery, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty, Monserrat Collage of Art, Beverly, MA
Out of this World, Rockland Arts Center, Nyack, NY

2007
Tuttavia Povero!, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ
Oasis, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY

2006
Out of Context: Contemporary Photography in the Landscape, The Fields Sculpture Park Art, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY

2005
This is Not an Archive, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
Flowers/Kwiaty, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

2004
Tracks, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
On Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY

2003
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

2001
Spitting Image, Art Gallery at Stamford University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT

2000
Fixation: Obsession..., curated by A. Inselman, Kohler Arts Center Sheboygan, WI
The Likeness of Being, curator Dr. Judith Stein, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

1999
The Petite Format, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
Color, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Alan Sonfist & Portia Munson, Art Gallery of University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

1998
The Ornament of the Masses, Kunstahallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odensec, Denmark (catalogue)
Along the Garden Path, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, curated by Linda Weintraub, (catalogue)

1997
Fetish, Art Gallery of Windsor, curated by Renee Baert (catalogue), Montreal, Canada
Pink, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Lisa Wainwright
American Art Today: The Garden, Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (catalogue)
Figuring Women’s Lives, Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1996
Obsession, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Body Language, Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL, curated by Judith Page & Adam Strauss (catalogue)
In This Time and Place, College Art Gallery, SUNY at New Paltz, NY
Women Artists, Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalogue)
ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)

1995
Insight, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Object Lessons: Feminine Dialogues with the Surreal, Mass 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
Domestic Disturbance, Delta Axis, curated by Allan Frame & Katherine Herndon, Memphis, TN
New Forms, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA, curated by Ann Wilson Lloyd

1994
Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Pink Window, Art in General, New York, NY (catalogue)
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

1992
Women & Surrealism, curated by Mary Jane Jacob, Women’s Caucus for Art, Chicago, IL
Still Life Today, Scott Alan Fine Arts, New York, NY

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

Select Public Works

2018
OVERRIDE Chicago, Interlude at Hand, a Billboard Project, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL

2016
Cosmos, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY

2015
Botanicals Below Bryant Park, MTA Station, Bryant Park, New York, NY

2012
Gardens of Fort Hamilton, MTA Subway Commission, Arts for Transit, Fort Hamilton Parkway Station, Brooklyn, NY

Collections

Museum of Sex, New York, NY

21C International Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, KY

ART in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Arlington, VA

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lyndhurst, OH

Dimensional Fund Advisors, Austin, TX

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Numerous Private Collections

Select Bibliography

2024
Samatar, Sofia; Zambreno, Kate. “TONE”, Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2024.

2023
Bideaux, Kevin. “Rose: Une couleur aux prises avec le genre”, Editions Amsterdam, 2023.
Stewart, Marilyn G. “Experience Art”, Davis Publications, 2023.

2019
Boetzkes, Amanda. “Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste”, Massachusets Institute of Technology, 2019.

2017
Crews, Caitlin. “Got a Girl Crush, ‘Portia Munson’,” Issue 6, 2017.
Boetzkes, Amanda. “Plastic Vision and the Sight of Petroculture”, in “Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture”, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

2015
Elvin, George. “Post – Petroleum Design,” Routledge, New York, NY, 2015.

2014
Bloodworth, S. & Ayres, W. “NY’s Underground Art Museum: MTA Arts & Design,” Monacelli Press, 2014.
Coultas, Brenda. “The Tatters,” Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2014.

2012
“Oppenheimer Collection,” James Printing Company, Kansas City, MO, 2012.

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

2002
“Artist to Artist: A Decade of The Space Program,” Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 2002.

1994
“Bad Girls,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, 1994.