Education

Colorado College, 1959-63, B.A. 1963
Boston University, 1962

Awards

National Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1972
Honorary Doctorate, Colby College, Maine, 1982
Honorary Doctorate, Bowdoin College, Maine, 1992

Solo Exhibitions

Living on This Earth, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2003
Salander O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York, NY, 2001
Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA, 2000
Salander O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York, NY, 1999
Les Yeux de Monde, Charlottesville, VA, 1996
Salander O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York, NY, 1995
Salander O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York, NY, 1994
Victoria Monroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1993
Smith - Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
The Graphic Art of Katherine Porter, Wiegan Gallery, College of Notre Dame,
Belmont, CA, 1992
Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1992
Victoria Monroe Fine Art, New York, 1992
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1990
Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY, 1989
Knoedler Gallery, London, 1988
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Richmond, VA, 1988
Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY, 1988
Nina Neilsen Gallery, NY, 1988
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 1987
Sidney Janis Gallery, NY, 1987
University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, NY
David McKee Gallery, NY, 1986
William Halsey Gallery, Charleston, NC, 1986
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1985
"Katherine Porter Paintings 1969 - 1984" (retrospective), 1985
David McKee Gallery, NY, 1984
"Katherine Porter: I am American...Drawings and Small Paintings," Cape Split Pace Gallery, Addison, ME, 1984
Beaver College, Glenside, PA, 1983
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1983
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1983
Colby College, Waterville, ME, 1982
David McKee Gallery, NY, 1982
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (drawings), 1981
David McKee Gallery, NY, 1981
"Katherine Porter: Works on Paper 1969 - 1979," organized by the Achebach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Fransisco, San Fransisco, CA - traveling to Newprt Harbor Museum, Newport Harbor, CA, 1980
David McKee Gallery, NY, 1979
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1979
David McKee Gallery, NY, 1978
Harcus Krakow Gallery, 1976
David McKee Gallery, NY, 1975
Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1974
Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA, 1973
Henri Gallery, Washington, DC, 1972
Parker 470 Gallery, Boston, MA, 1972
Parker 470 Gallery, Boston, MA, 1971
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 1971

Group Exhibitions

Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, Decordova Museum, Lincoln , MA,2002
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco,2001
Salander O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York, NY
Beyond the Mountains, Tulane Art Museum, Boise Museum, University of Connecticut-
New London Museum, Moskegan Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum, 2000
Painted Landscape, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC, 1999
Gallery Artists, Nina Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery,
Greensboro, NC, 1999
Masters of the Masters, Butler Institute, Ohio, 1998
Abstract Painting, Snug Harbor Art Museum, Long Island, NY, 1997
Movement and Meaning, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Painting Abstract, Mount Holyoke Art Museum, Maier Museum, Randolph Macon
Women's College, Boston University Art Gallery, Cedar Rapids Art Museum, 1996
10 + 10, Studio Art School Gallery, New York, NY, 1995
Abstraction, VA Museum of Art, Richmond, VA, 1995
Voices, IPA, Boston, MA, 1994
From the Collection of Edward Broida, Palm Beach Art Museum, Palm Beach, FL, 1993
On the Edge, Portland Museum, Portland, ME, 1993
Paintings Self- Evident (curator), Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
Abstraction Per Se (through January 1993), Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
Belief in Paint: Eleven Contemporary Artists, Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT, 1990
The Painted Monotype, Micheal Dunev, San Francisco, CA, 1990
Art on Paper 1990, Weatherspoon Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
NC, 1990
Sightings, Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona; Casa Revilla, Valladolid, Spain, 1989
A Selection of Works, Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, NY; Museo Barjola, Gijon, Spain; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY; 1989
Three from Waldo County: Prints by Porter, Yvonne Jaquette, and Gilbert Cass, Gallery 68,Belfast, ME, 1988
1988 Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 1988
New World New York, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, KS, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 1988
40th Annual Academy - Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, 1988
Making Their Mark, Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, 1988
Field and Frame, Meyer's Shapiro's Semiotics of Painting, NY, Studio School, NY, 1987
Drawings, Arkansas National Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 1987
Iowa Arts Council, Traveling Exhibition, Des Moines, IA, 1987
AIDS Benefit, Rosa Esman, NY, 1987
Landscape Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY, 1987
Invitational Exhibition, Siegel Contemporary, NY, 1987
Atelier Project, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY, 1987
Beyond Reductive Tendencies, Michael Walls Gallery, NY, 1987
Samuel Waxman Cancer Reasearch Foundation, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY, 1986
Born in Iowa: The Homecoming Exhibition, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1986
Rethinking the Avant-Garde, by Jonathan Fineberg, The Katonah Gallery, NY, 1986
National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 1986
Contemporary Drawings from the Last Three Decades, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1985
Between Abstraction and reality, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NY, 1985
Group Show, Van Abbemuseum, Einhoven, Holland, 1985
Hassem and Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY, 1984
Mari Michener, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas a Austin, Austin, TX, 1984
American Women Artists - Part II: Younger Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY, 1984
Beauties and Beasts, Pratt Manhattan Center, NY, 1984
An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1984
Humanism and Undercurrents, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1984
Paintings and Sculpture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 1984
Location: a 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nina Neilsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1984
Twenty New York Painters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1983
Six Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, 1983
Homage to Arthur Dove, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, 1983
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1983
The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 1983
Invitational, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1983
Hassam Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, 1983
Contemporary Works on Paper, Frumkin-Adams Gallery
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1981
Abstract Mythologies, Nina Neilsen Gallery, Boston, MA, 1981
Abstract Painting, Women's Caucus, NY, 1981
The Abstract Image, Hamilton Gallery, NY, 1981
74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1981
Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY, 1980
Painterly Abstraction, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA, 1980
Works on Paper, USA, selected by Stephen Greene, Rockland Center for the Arts, NY, 1979
New York - A Selection from the Last Ten Years, Otis Art Institute, (curated by Betty Parsons), Los Angeles, CA, 1979
New Options in Painterly Abstraction, Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 1979
Drawing Now, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA, 1979
Recent Acquisitions from the HHK Foundation, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, 1978
Atlantic Gallery, Boston, MA, 1978
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1978
Spoleto Choice, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC, 1978
Theodoran, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, 1977
From Women's Eyes, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1977
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1973
Six Visions, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1973
Boston Collects, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1973
Twelve from Around Town, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA, 1972
Studio Coalition, Boston, MA, 1970
Six Artists, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1970
Drawings Reexamined, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1970
Collaboration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1969
Insights, Parker 410 Gallery, Boston, MA, 1969
Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1969
Three if by Air, Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA, 1969
Betty Parsons Collection, FInch College, NY, 1967

Selected Bibliography

Walker, Mickey, "Bowdoin Show Does Porter Proud," The Waldo Independent, May 30, 1991
Cannon, Kimberly, "Porter Paintings Glow," The Times Record, May 23, 1991, p. 17
McWilliams, Margot, "Katherine Porter: Paintings, Drawings," Casco Bay Weekly, May 9, 1991
Miller, Sherry, "Porter Works Loose the Mind," Maine Sunday Telegraph, May 5, 1991, p. 13
"Porter Show Opens: Recent Paintings, Drawings Featured at Bowdoin," The Times Record, April 25, 1991, p. 13
Jacks, Shirley, "Katherine Porter at Bowdoin College," Greater Portland Magazine, April - May, 1991, p. 35 - 37
Beem, Edgar Allen, "Abstract Conflicts: Katherine Porter Takes the Political Personally," Maine Times, May 31, 1991, p. 1 - 3
Moss, Stacey, "Full Powers: The Recent Paintings of Katherine Porter in Context," essay for the exhibition catalogue, Katherine Porter: Paintings and Drawings, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 1991, p. 5 - 15
Allison, Sue, "Her Infinate Variety," Life, June 1989, p. 64
Freundorfer, Sigrid, "A Selection of Works," catalogue for the exhibit, Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, 1989
Kuspit, Donald, "Sightings: Drawings with Color," catalogue for the exhibition, Schafler Gallery, 1989
Simmons, Kenna, "Making Waves," horizon, Jan./Feb. 1989, p. 37 - 40
Princenthall, Nancy, "Katherine Porter at Andre Emmerich," Art in America, Feb. 1989, p. 161 - 162
Beckett, Wendy, "Contemporary Women Artists," Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1988, p. 86
Hayt-Atkins, Elizabeth, "Katherine Porter at Andre Emmerich," Art in America, Jan. 1989, p. 130
Corbett, William, Boston Review of the Arts, 1985
Rose, Barbara, Vogue, 1986
Jacks, Shirley, "A political painter tackles the world from a loft in Belfast," Maine SUnday Telegram, Aug. 23, 1987, p. 42A
Wadsworth, Susan, "Political and Moral Landscapes: The Paintings of Katherine Porter," Arts, Sept. 1987
Wolff, Theodore, "Many of today's best artists are women, but recognition lags," Christian Science Monitor
Miro, Marsha, Review, Cetroit Free press, March 24, 1987, p. 54
Larson, Kay, "Guerilla Tactics," New York, Feb. 2, 1987, review p. 54
Melvin, Tessa, "Original Paints at the Neuberger by 16 Artists in Atelier Project," New York Times, April 27, 1987
Hunter, Sam, "An American Renaissance," catalogue for the exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, 1986
Katherine Porter, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1985 (exhibition catalogue)
Pardee, Hearne, "Katherine Porter," Six Painters at the Hudson River Museum: To Probe and Extend the Resourses of Painting, Arts, Sept. 1983, p. 69 - 71
Brenson, Michael, "Katherine Porter," New York Times, Oct. 12, 1984
Crichlow, Beth, "Katherine Porter's Painting Come Home to Belfast from the 'Big City'," The Republican Journal, Dec, 13, 1984, p. 2
Russell, John, "Six painters at the Hudson River Museum," New York Times, July 8, 1983
Storr, Robert, "Katherine Porter," Art in America, May 1983
Westfall, Steven, "Katherine Porter," Arts, June 1981
Smith, Dave, "An Art Brouhaha by the Bay," Calendar, Feb. 7, 1982, p. 6 - 7
Simon, Joan, "The Expressionism Question 1," interview with Kathrine Porter, Art in America, Dec. 1982
Westfall, Steven, "Katherine Porter," Arts, June 1981
Thompkins, Calvin, "Three Salons," The New Yorker, April 13, 1981, p. 112 - 116
Russell, John, "Juicy Abstractions by Katherine Porter," New York Times, Feb. 27, 1981
Kramer, Hilton, "A Strategy for Viewing the Biennial," New York Times, Feb. 6, 1981, p. C18
San Fransisco Chronicle, "Political Forum at Moscone Center,' Dec. 1, 1981, p. 3
Foster, Hal, "Katherine Porter," ArtForum, Nov. 1980
McDonald, Robert, "Structuring the Grid," Artweek, Marck 29, 1980
Morch, Al, "An Artist who keeps growing," San Fransisco Examiner, March 3, 1980, p. C18
O'Briel, Hedy, Artspeak, Feb. 14, 1980, p. 5
Moss, Stacey, "A Lesson in abstract art at Legion of Honor," The Peninsula Times Tribute, March 14, 1980, p. C11
Shirley, David L. "An Exhibition in Praise of Paper," New York Times, May 13, 1979
Parsons, Betty, "New York/A Selection from the Last Ten Years," Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1979 (catalogue)
Phillips, Michael, "New Options in Painterly Abstraction," Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 1979 (catalogue)
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Art in the Seventies, Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford, England, 1980, p. 44 - 45
Yau, John, Review in Art in America, Dec. 1979
Allara, Pamela, "Boston: Shedding its Inferiority Complex," Art News, Nov. 1979
Ross, Laura, "Depth Beyond the Surface," Vision, Sept./Oct./Nov. 1979
Arts Canada, "The Roots of Abstraction,' may - June 1979, illustrated in color, p. 20
Buonagurio, Edgar, Review in Arts, Sept. 1979
Schjeldahl, Peter, Review in Artforum, Summer, 1979
O'Beil, Hedy, Review in Arts, Sept. 1979
Artworld, April 16, 1979
Soho News, March 29, 1979
Raynor, Vivien. Review in the New York Times, March 18, 1978
Zimmerman, William. "Airing Out the Grid," Soho News, March 16, 1978
"Nine Artists: Theodoran Awards," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, 1977 (catalogue)
Saulnier, Bonnie. "From Women's Eye's," 'Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1977 (catalogue)
Taylor, Robert, "Women's Eye's a stimulating exhibit," Boston Sunday Globe, May 15, 1977, p. A10
Moss, Stacey, Review in Art in America, May - June 1976
Frank, Peter, Review in ARTnews, Feb. 1976
Sargent-Wooster, Ann, Review in ArtForum, Feb. 1976
Frackman, Noel, Review in Arts, Jan. 1976
Taylor, Robert, "Fitting Rectangles into Abstract," The Boston Globe, Dec. 13, 1976, p. 30
Arghyros, Nan, "Katharine Porter, Painter," NewBostonReview, June 1975
Andersen, Wayne, "Katherine Porter," Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1974 (catalogue)
Taylor, Robert, "Katherine Perter's new work seen as MIT," The Boston Globe, Dec. 1, 1974
Larson, Kay, "Reaching Toward the Abstract Sublime," The Real Paper, May 16, 1973
Laskey, Nora, "Art: New Mexico in the Abstract," The Real Paper, May 16, 1973
Kasienz, Seymour, "There's Art in Them Thayer Hall," Boston After Dark, Feb. 29, 1972, p. 2, 20
Palazzolo, Carl, "Katherine Porter,' The Boston Review of the Arts, June 20, 1971
Phillips, Michael, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman," The Boston Review of the Arts, June 20, 1971
Driscoll, Edgar, Boston's Young Artist's Studio Coalition opens loft to public," Boston Evenng Globe, March 18, 1970, p. 21
Guiliano, Charles, "Travels Along the Studio Coalition Route," Boston After Dark, Feb. 29, 1972, p. 2, 20
Liberian, Carol, "New Wave Bursts on Art Scene in Boston,' Sunday Herald Traveler, Aug. 31, 1969
Driscoll, Edgar, "Blossoms in profusion," Boston Sunday Globe, May 25, 1969, p. 35
Andreae, Christopher, "Coalition:Open Studios," The Guardian Science Monitor, Feb. 1, 1969, p. 4

Selected Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Bates College- Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, Brunswick, ME
Bowdoin College- Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Butler Institute, Ohio
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Achenbach Foundation) San Francisco, CA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, HI
Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gemeenstmuseum of the Hague, The Hague, Netherlands (Permanent Installation)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Carnegie, Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Munson Williams Proctor Museum, Utica, NY
Mt. Holyoke Art Museum, Mt. Holyoke College, Mt. Holyoke, MA
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Museum of Art, Portlend, OR
Portland Museum of Fine Arts, Portland, ME
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Smith College Art Museum, Northhampton, MA
Stanford Museum of Fine Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Tel Aviv Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA
Vermont Studio Center, 2002
Vermont Studio Center, 2001
University of North Carolina - Greensboro, NC - visiting professor, 2000
Vermont Studio Center - visiting artist, 2000
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA, visiting critic, 1999
Vermont Studio Center - Johnson, VT - visiting artist, 1999
University of North Carolina - Greensboro, NC - visiting professor, 1997
American University - Washington, DC - visiting artist - 1996
American University - Wahington, DC - visiting artist, 1995
Chatequa Summer Art Program - visiting artist, 1995
State University of Arizona - Tempe, Arizona - visiting artist, 1995
University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA - visiting professor, 1994
Museum of Fine Arts School - Boston, MA - visiting professor, 1994
Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA - visitning professor, 1993
Boston University - Boston, MA - visiting professor, 1992
Yale Summer School - Norfolk, CT - visiting artist, 1990
Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA - visiting professor, 1990
American University - Washington, DC - visiting artist, 1988
School of Visual Arts - New York, NY - visiting artist, 1987
Columbia University - New York, NY - visiting artist, 1986
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA - visiting artist, 1986
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA - visiting artist, 1985
Tyler School of Art - Philadelphia, PA - visiting artist, 1984
Skowhegan School of Art - Skowhegan, ME - visiting artist, 1984
Vermont Studio School - Johnson, VT - visiting artist, 1984
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA - visiting artist, 1984
Columbia University - New York, NY - visiting artist, 1983
Tyler School of Art - Philadelphia, PA - visiting artist, 1983
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA - visiting artist, 1983
Women's Center Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA - artist in residence, 1982
Dartmouth College - Hanover, NH - artist in residence, 1981
Tyler School of Art - Philadelphia, PA - visiting artist, 1980
University of Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa - visiting artist, 1980
Boston Museum School - Boston, MA - visiting artist, 1978
Massachusetts College of Art - Boston, MA - instructor, 1976
Massachusetts College of Art - Boston, MA - instructor, 1972