BIOGRAPHY

Portia Munson is a visual artist working in a wide range of media, focusing primarily on environmental and cultural themes seen from a feminist perspective. Over the course of Munsons career, she has had over 20 solo exhibitions and her work has been included in many group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Currently The Garden, a large scale installation, is on view at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KY. Munson has three solo exhibitions opening in 2022 including Memento Mori at Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY; Flood at Art Omi, Ghent, NY and Bound Angel at PPOW in NYC. Some recent exhibitions include; Cross Pollination at Olana, Hudson, NY; Dime-Store Alchemy at the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, and Spectrum at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY; Flood at Oregon Contemporary in Portland, OR; Her Room Her World at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA; The Garden at PPOW Gallery, NYC; and Color Forms at Mass MOCA in North Adams, MA. Her public works include Pink Projects with Art Production Fund at Rockefeller Center, NYC; Art in the Terminal at the Albany Airport, Albany NY; MTA Arts for Transit installation at Bryant Park MTA Station, NYC; and a permanent Metropolitan Transit Authority installation in Brooklyn, New York. Munson was educated at Cooper Union in NYC, and at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art, NJ. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME. She has been awarded residencies at institutions including Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy; MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Peterborough, NH; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. Munson was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2019. Munson's work has been the subject of numerous articles and reviews; publications include The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Frieze

Magazine, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, VICE/Creators Project, and Bust Magazine. Portia Munson lives and works in Catskill, New York. She has been represented by PPOW Gallery in New York since 2005.

Woodstock

I grew up visiting the Catskills with my family, staying at a small family farm not far from Woodstock. During those visits I fell in love with the area, the magic of walking in the woods, swimming in streams and waterfalls, the color of the dirt, the nature sounds at night, the wildlife…. and the feeling of history. I knew I wanted to eventually live here. In the early 1990’s I moved to the Catskills from NYC with my partner, Jared Handelsman; we raised our children here, relocated a new world Dutch barn to be our studios, made gardens and art. It’s a place that historically and continually calls to and inspires artists.

Portia Munson- Pink Project: Table, 2016- 44 x 66 inches, pigmented ink on Hahnemuhle paper, Edition 1/3

Pink Project: Table is made up of thousands of discarded products all produced in the color pink, arranged on a large skirted table.