Portia munson biography of michael
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Portia Munson,
Photo by Kevin Thomasson
For over three decades, Portia Munson (b) has created maximal installations, sculptures, paintings, and digital prints using a vast accumulation of ready-made consumer products to decipher the latent cultural codes embedded in mass-produced items. Munson lives and works in Catskill, NY. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union, an MFA from Rutgers University, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has been awarded residencies at institutions including Fountainhead, Miami, FL; Woodman Residency Foundation, Tuscany, Italy; Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy; MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Peterborough, NH; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, as well as a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in Her work has been the subject of over twenty solo exhibitions at Museum of Sex, New York, NY; P·P·O·W, New York, NY; White Columns, New York, NY; MASS MoCA, Nor
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SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Blossom to Blossom, Grapefruits at ILY2Too, Portand, OR,
The Book of Love, Nationale, Portland, OR,
They Always Have, and Still Do, Nationale, Portland, OR,
Me and You and You and Me, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR,
Blush, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR,
Yes Please Thank You, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR,
Amy Bay and Justyn Hegreberg, Snag Gallery, Seattle, WA,
That Reminds Me (to nature the roof and the floor holding heart), BARDO, The House Museum, Gillams, Newfoundland, Canada,
Wet Paint, with Joan Mellon, PLEAT Gallery, ,
Bramble, Artscapes, Spaceworks Tacoma, Tacoma, WA,
land, sea, sky, Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburg Branch, Brooklyn, NY,
Elevations, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NY,
Be Here Now, with Bellamy Printz, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH,
View: A Site Specific Project, Queens Theater in the Park, Flushing Meadows, NY,
Floor, Galería Panorama, Barcelona, Spain,
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A Place Bet
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Artists' Books from the Home Museum: August ,
University of Alberta Beyond the Museum as Muse: collecting, classifying, and displaying objects in contemporary artistic practice by Megan Dawn Bertagnolli A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the grad of mästare of Arts In History of Art, Design and Visual Culture Department of Art and Design ©Megan Dawn Bertagnolli Fall Edmonton, Alberta Permission is hereby granted to the University of Alberta Libraries to reproduce single copies of this thesis and to lend or sell such copies for private, scholarly or scientific research purposes only. Where the thesis is converted to, or otherwise made available in digital struktur, the University of Alberta will advise potential users of the thesis of these terms. The author reserves all other publication and other rights in association with the copyright in the thesis and, except as herein before provided, neither the