TINA LA PORTA

b. 1967; Chicago, Illinois.

Education
1994
Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
1990
Independent Study, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1989
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.

Solo Exhibitions
2021
Un/covering, Pompano Beach Cultural Center Gallery, Pompano Beach, FL.
2020
Distance In Real-Time, Noemata White Page Gallery Network
2018
Side Effects, FAR Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2003

Total Screen, Whitebox/Annex, New York, NY.
2002
voyeur_web, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, NY.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Art Disease and Drugs: The threshold of pain and artistic creation, Museo del Barrio - arte contemporaneo; Manizales,Columbia
Digital Gravity, Loading Festival; Mana Miami, Miami, FL.
2019
Court Room Sessions, Court House Cultural Center at The Arts Council of Martin County, Stuart, FL
Web-Retro: Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017
Looking Back, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL.
2016
Five Centuries of Prints from Rembrandt to Picasso: Drs. Walter and Mildres Padow Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2015
ReImagined, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL.
2014
Summer Pill, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL.
2013

Chronology: A Timeline, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL.
2012
Rip Her To Shreds, The Projects, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Sound of IT, Compositions In the Spirit of John Cage, Garage 4141, San Diego, CA.
(Exhibition tours to Northend Studios, Detroit, MI.; Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran.)
2011
Sex, Drugs & Profanity, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FL.
International Streaming Festival Sixth Edition, The Hague, Netherlands.
Sense of Sound Art, 18 Rabbit Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2010
Port2010, SoundGate, Aalborg, Denmark.
Sound Art Jukebox, SoundFjord, London, England.
HOPE-A-HOLIC, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY.
Low Lives 2, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
(Exhibition Simulcast to: Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL; Galeria de la Raza, San Fransisco, CA; The Temporary Space, Houston, TX; Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Terminal, Clarksville, TN; Co-Lab, Austin, TX; Studio 304, Brooklyn, NY.)
2006
Carcel de Amor: Violencia sin Cuerpos (Prison of Love: Violence Without Bodies),
(Exhibition tours to Fundación Luis Seoane, La Coruña, Spain; Mediateca -CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain.)
2005
Rhizome ArtBase 101,New Museum, New York, NY.
Carcel de Amor: Violencia sin Cuerpos (Prison of Love: Violence Without Bodies), Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
(Exhibition tours to Centro Párraga, Región de Murcia, Spain; Filmoteca Canaria del Gobierno de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain; Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain; Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer en Córdoba, Spain; Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Spain; Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (CAB), Spain; Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Almagro, Hospital de San Juan de Dios, Spain.)
<Robot is Coming> SciArt "10 Years After," National Science Museum, Daejeon, Korea.
(Exhibition tours to Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea.)
05' VilaFranca Contemporania de Fotografia, Galeria Sicart, Barcelona, Spain.
Arte on Line: Festival de Verao e Inverno, Museu do Essencial e do Alem Disso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2004
The Sphinx Will Devour You, Karsi Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, Turkey.
Premio Suzzara, Suzzara Museum, Mantova, Italy.
2003
Web As Performance Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England.
Image Identity, Casa Encendida, Madrid Spain.
Habitar en (punto)net, Espai F Barcelona, Spain.
FuturNET, Ala Mazzoniana Rome, Italy.
Medienturm, Graz, Austria.
2002
Fallen Cities, Apartment Project; Istanbul, Turkey.
Erotica, Riva Gallery, New York, NY.
Sugar & Spice and Everything Nice… Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY.
net.art, FotoFest 2002, Houston, TX.
The Net.Art Open Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2001
Body as Byte: The Body as Information Flow, New Kunstmuseum Luzern,Switzerland.
Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. (Exhibition tours to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK.)
Future Bodies, Media Lounge, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany.
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France and Berlin, Germany.
Texture, Digital ArtLab, Holon, Israel.
Webcast Lounge, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
net.ephemera, Moving Image Gallery, New York, NY.
(Exhibition tours to Chapman Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, Project Arts Centre Dublin, Ireland)
2000
Miradas Impudicas, Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona, Spain.
Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletronica, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil.
Particle Accelerators, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA.
Siren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Day Without Art Web Action, CreativeTime, New York, NY.
Technically Engaged, AIR Gallery, New York, NY.
Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY.
Net.Congestion : International Festival of Streaming Media, De Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
EXCHANGE 2000, Digital Media Research Centre, Bristol, England.
SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Show, New Orleans, LA.
Sound Art, Arte Sano Projects, Monterrey, Mexico.
Ink.Ubation, trAce Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, England.
Virtual Worlds 2000, Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci, Paris, France.
Through the Looking Glass, Beachwood Center for the Arts, Beechwood, OH.
Vidéoformes 2000, Espace Culture MultiMÉDIA, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Presence 2000, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.
Verbal 3: Call and Response, The Kitchen, New York, NY.
Web3D /VRML - ART 2000, International Conference, Monterey, California.
The 6th Annual Festival of Computer Art, Maribor, Slovenia.
Andernorts, Kuenstlerbund, Berlin, Germany.
1999
Alterities, École Supérieure Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
Montreal International Festival of new Cinema & New Media, Montréal, Canada.
Mind-Shift: Identities in Cyberspace, Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
e-FUSION: SEAFair '99, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia.
Rencontres D'Art Contemporain, Aix en Provence 1999, Aix in Provence, France.
1998
VideoMedeja, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
Maid in Cyberspace, Studio XX, Montréal, Canada.
International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia.
Communing; SeaFair '98, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Skopje, Macedonia.
Screens and Memes, Downtown Arts Festival, Harvestworks, New York, NY.
1996
Tone: Cyberfemme, The Kitchen, New York, NY.
The New York International Video & New Media Festival; New York, NY.
1995
The World's Women On-Line, Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China.
(Exhibition tours to Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, PA.)
Hardwear, Art in General, New York, NY.
Video Lounge, Art in General, New York, NY.
1994
Why we can’t sleep, Artland, New York, NY.
Gamma 51: Art & Science Visualization, NYU- TV/Unet, New York, NY.
1993
Women’s Art, Women’s Lives, Women’s Issues, Tweed Gallery, New York, NY.
1992
Artists for Choice, ABCnoRIO, New York, NY
1991
Revelations: Artist’s Look At Religions, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL.

Selected Lectures and Panels
(Including Webcasts and Performances)
2021
Panel, The Therapeutic Qualities of Art In The Healing Process, Pompano Beach Cultural Center, Pompano Beach, FL.
2020
Panel, "Real vs. Fake", Third Space Network/American University Museum, Washington D.C.
Artist Talk, "Translate { } Expression 1994/1998" Loading Festival, Mana Miami, Miami, FL
2019

Lecture, "Side Effects", NSU Museum of Art,Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Podcast, Interview with Tina La Porta, Rocking Chair Sessions, Miami, FL.
2013
Presenter, "Just Do It", Florida Art Museum Directors Association Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2010
Presentor, 5 Minutes of Fame, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.
Moderator, "Social Media Art Bootcamp," Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2005
Presentor, “Extensioni,” San Giacomo degli Italiani Church, Naples, Italy.
2003
Reading Group, “Reading Franz Fanon,” 192 Books, New York, NY.
Facilitator, “What is Orientalism? A Cross-Cultural Dialog in Times of Global Conflict,” Whitebox/Annex, New York, NY.
2002
Lecture, “Telepresence,” Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
Lecture, “net-art,” Gumusluk Akademisi, Bodrum, Turkey.
Lecture, “web art,” Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.
Lecture, “Computer Art in Context,” Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2001
Lecture, “The New Media Collaborative,” Eyebeam/DIA Art Foundation/Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY.
Panelist, “Museums, Education, and the Web,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
Panelist, “Communication on the Internet,” Newhouse Center, Staten Island, NY.
Lecture, “Network Activity,” Harvestworks, New York, NY.
2000
Roundtable, “Think Tank on Digital Art,” Artist Space, New York, NY.
Lecture, “Cyber/Space/Image/Text,” Guttenberg Information Technology Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.
Keynote Speaker, “(Re)presenting Women,” Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
Lecture, “Net.works + Avatars,” Rhizome Internet Lecture Series@The Kitchen, New York, NY.
1999
Panelist, “Gender in New Media” INVENCAO, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Panelist, “Nouvelles Esthetiques De L'espace,” École Supérieure Natioinale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
Lecture, “Translate { }Expression,” University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.
Panelist, “Shock of the View,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
1998
Lecture, “From Hypertext to Hypermedia,” Cooper Union, New York, NY.
Panelist, “Hardwired: Science, Technology and Gender,” Barnard College, New York, NY.
Moderator, “Women in New Media,” Women and the Arts Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Panelist, “New Media and Cinema,” Avignon Film Festival, New York, NY.
Panelist, “POV Salon,” PBS On-Line Forum
1996
Presenter, “Sexuality and Cyberspace: The Politics of the Digital Body,” PS122, New York, NY.
1994
Panelist, “Digital Technology in Fine Art & Photography,” Image World/Video Expo, New York, NY.
Moderator, College Art Association/Women's Caucus for Art, “Simulations, Replications, and the Displacement of Desire,” New York, NY.

Selected Awards and Residencies
2020
Artist in Residence, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, FL.
2017
Printmaking Without A Press, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, FL.
2005
Keyholder, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY.
2004
Artist in Residence, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY.
2003
Artist in Residence, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY.
2002
Artist in Residence, Gumusluk Academy; Bodrum, Turkey.
2001
Presentation Fund Award, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY.
2000
Presentation Fund Award, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY.
1999
Semi-finalist: Global Information Infrastructure (Gii) Award in Arts and Culture
1998
Presentation Fund Award, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY.
Artist in Residence, Ars Electronica: Future Lab, Linz, Austria.
1996
Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY.
Producer, Cyberfemme, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York, NY.

Public Commissions
2002
artport, Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
2001
artport gatepage, Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
2000
The Alternative Museum Web Residency, New York, NY.
1999
Turbulence.org, New York, NY

Public Collections
Whitney Museum (artport database); New York, NY.
New Museum rhizome.org (artbase); New York, NY.
Girls' Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University Library
Sound Art Museum; Rome, Italy.
Young at Art Museum; Davie, FL.
Vasari Project, Miami-Dade Public Library System; Miami, FL.

Selected Reviews and Publications
Female Body in Digital Culture: Presence and Subjectivitites (Lambert)
Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Leonardo Book Series/ MIT Press)
Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space (Taylor & Francis)
Immersivite De L'art: Interactions, Imsertions, Hybridations Des Corps Pluriels (L'Harmattan)
Manifeste Des Arts Immersifs (Presses Universitaires De Nancy)
Creative Time: The Book (Princeton Architectural Press)
Digital Media Revisited (MIT Press)
New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative (ZKM)
Arts et Nouvelles Technologies (Larousse)
Internet Art Digital Culture; Web Fictions (Springer)
From Technological to Virtual Art (MIT Press)
Avatars (Benteli Verlag)
Digital Art: World of Art Series (Thames and Hudson)
digital currents: art in the electronic age (Routledge)
Being on line; net subjectivity (Lusitania)
habitar en (punto)net: estudios sobre mujer, educación e Internet (Universidad de Cordoba)
Wounded City: The Social Impact of 9/11(Russell Sage Foundation)
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (Routledge)
Cultural Sociology (Sage)
Intermedia: Enacting the Liminal (Dortmunder Schriften zur Kunst)
Carcel de Amor (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia)
Mirades Impudiques (Fundacio “la Caixa”)
FotoFest 2002 Classicism & Beyond
ctrl+shift art - ctrl+shift gender: Convergences of Gender, New Media and Art (Axis)
Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture (MIT Press)
Education and Technology: Critical Perspectives, Possible Futures (Lexington Books)
Journal of Embodied Research (Open Library of Humanities)
New York Times Art Review
Miami New Times
LA Weekly
Sun Sentinel
Time Out New York
Village Voice
San Francisco Gate
Palm Beach Post
WideWalls
Art Actuel
HotWired
Leonardo
Journal for Women & Performance
PForm
Ms. Magazine
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Public Culture
rai.it
William and Mary Review
Ciberpais Mensual
New York Arts Magazine
Neural


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