TINA LA PORTA

Born in 1967 in Chicago, while still an undergraduate, I developed a body of work photographing the Pro-Choice movement in Chicago, Milwakee, Waashington D.C. and New York City. In 1992 I moved to New York's East Village to persue my Masters of Fine Arts Degree at The School of Visual Arts where I studied with Lisa Spellman, Sarah Charlesworth and Nan Goldin. During that time I interned at Pace/McGill Gallery and for Historian, Naomi Rosemblum while she wrote her book A History of Women Photographers (Abbeville Press). My intial post-graduate work was immersed within the global internet art movement where I created several internet specific art works such as: net.works + avatars, distance and Re:mote_Corp@REALities. After 9/11 I focused my attention on mediated representations and coverage of war. Currently, my work explores symptoms of mental illness, side effects of prescription medications and the therapeutic qualities of the artistic process.

Since 1991 I have exhibited work in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and Internationally. My work has been on view at  The New Museum, NY; The NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Museu do Essencial e do Alem Disso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona, Spain; The Kitchen, New York, NY.

I have received commissions to create new work from The Whitney Museum, New York, NY; The Alternative Museum, New York, NY; Turbulence.org, New York, NY and Leonardo (MIT Press).

My work is included in Public Collections such as The Whitney Museum, New York, NY; The New Museum/Rhizome, New York, NY; The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY; The Girls' Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL.; Sound Art Museum, Rome, Italy and The Vasari Project, Miami-Dade Public Library System in Miami, Florida.

My work has been published in many periodicals including The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader; Digital Art: World of Art Series; Creative Time: The Book as well as The New York Times, Miami New Times, LA Weekly, Leonardo and Ms. Magazine.

I have lectured and presented my work widely at The Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL;  El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; Liceo Artistico Statale Caravaggio, Milan, Italy; College Art Association/Women's Caucus for Art.

While living in New York City, I taught at both the Graduate and Undergraduate levels in Fine Art at Cooper Union, New York University, The New School, Rutgers University, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New York Institute of Technology, Fordham University, St. John's University and Fairfield University.