Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. She began her study of art at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano [Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts]. In 1958, her family moved to Mexico City, and Liliana entered the Universidad Iberoamericana de México [IBERO] where she studied with the German artist, Mathias Goeritz. She specialized in printmaking technique with Guillermo Silva Santamaría and held her first exhibitions there.Between 1961 and 1964, back in Buenos Aires, Porter continued her training with Fernando López Anaya and Ana María Moncalvo. In 1964, she moved to New York, where she founded the New York Graphic Workshop, along with Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo, during the winter of 1964-1965. In addition to operating as a workshop for instruction and making prints for other artists, this venture served as a center for discussion of the characteristics of printmaking and its contemporary scope. These hypotheses, set forth in various texts, gave rise to several group projects. As of about 1970, the workshop ceased its activities. In 1975, Porter, along with her then husband, Luis Camnitzer, founded the Studio Camnitzer-Porter in Valdottavo, Lucca, [Italy]. After their separation, the workshop continued its operations as Studio Camnitzer. Liliana Porter currently lives and works in New York. The importance of this invitation is that it documents one of Liliana Porter’s first exhibitions, held during the time when she was living in Mexico City.
