Portia Munson creates maximal installations, sculptures, paintings, and digital prints, synthesizing environmental and cultural themes from a feminist perspective. Her work has been the subject of over twenty solo exhibitions including at P·P·O·W, NYC; The Museum of Sex, NYC; Art Omi, Ghent, NY; White Columns, NYC; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR; Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Disjecta, Portland, OR; and NYU Langone Medical Center Gallery, NYC; among others. Munson’s work has also been included in numerous international group exhibitions including, Angelic Rebels, Company Gallery, NYC; Plasticulture, SVA Chelsea Gallery, NYC; Rituals of Devotion, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending, 21c Bentonville, Bentonville, AK, and 21c Louisville, Louisville, KY; Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and our Contemporary Moment, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY; Dime-Store Alchemy, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC; Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; PhotograpHER: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection, Newman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Bad Girl, wallspaceplease, Dubai, UAE; 2019 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC; Cheeky: Summer Butts, Marinaro, NYC; and Bad Girls, curated by Marcia Tucker, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, among others. Her public works include Pink Projects with the Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, NYC; Art in the Terminal, the Albany International Airport, Albany, NY; MTA Arts for Transit, Bryant Park MTA Station, NYC; a permanent Metropolitan Transit Authority installation in Brooklyn, NY; and OVERRIDE, EXPO Chicago, IL.
Portia Munson (b.1961) lives and works in Catskill, NY. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union (1983), an MFA from Rutgers University (1990), and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1987). She has been awarded residencies at institutions including Woodman Residency Foundation, Tuscany, Italy; Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry, Ireland; 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.
