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Fire, Blood, and Schrodinger's Cat view 1
Mixed media
26 1/ 2 x 25 x 25” -
Reflected in a Pan of Stars
90 x 30 x30" -
Like a Flash of Lightning
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Portrait of Robert
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 28” -
Sensei Solfrid Daniels
Acrylic on canvas
33 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 2 1/4” -
Womens Kumite, Stockholm, Sweden
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30”
Biography
Siena Gillann Porta
Siena Gillann Porta attended the Art Students League at 15, and then the School of Visual Arts and the New School in New York City. She earned a BS in Studio Arts from Brooklyn College CUNY while studying with Philip Pearlstein, Lee Bonticou, Lennart Anderson, Paul Gianfagna, Sylvia Stone and Lois Dodd. Awarded a Full Graduate Fellowship at The Pennsylvania State University, Porta earned her MFA in Sculpture. Currently her work is represented by NOHO M55 Gallery in Chelsea,14 Sculptors Inc. NY, NY, The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), The New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA), New York Artists Circle (NYAC) and Inspiration Art Group International.
Porta has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad at galleries and museums, with installations in New York City, the greater metropolitan area and U.S. national parks. Her university exhibitions include Notre Dame, Lehigh, Adelphi, the New Jersey City University, Manhattanville, Fairleigh Dickinson and NYU. Siena’s public collections include The City of Hveragerdi, Iceland, The Agricultural University of Iceland, St. Philip R.C. Church, Norwalk CT, The County of Rockland, NY and The Hafnarborg Cultural Museum, Iceland. Her installation “Bowing to the Cushion” was on loan at from 2001-2022.
As a Scenic Artist and Lead Scenic Artist since 1986, she created work for numerous Broadway productions, Feature films, Prime-time network television, Netflix and The Metropolitan Opera. She has taught as both an Adjunct Professor of Art and Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art at Ramapo College of NJ., St. Thomas Aquinas College and Bergen Community College. Her biography is listed, among others, in Who’s Who in America. Porta has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The United States Information Agency and The New York State Council on the Arts. Solo exhibitions include 14 Sculptors Gallery, Mercer St., NY and Noho Gallery W. 25 th St., NY. She has been an Artist in Residence at Brisons Veor in Cornwall, England and Artist in Residence twice at Varmahlid Haus in Hveragerdi, Iceland. Reviews include The NY Times, The Wave, Gallery & Studio Magazine, Newsday, Spotlight Magazine, The New York Art Review, The Journal News and Women Artist’s News.
Selected exhibitions include; The Hammond Museum, The Taller Boricua Gallery “Evolution/Revolution”, NY, NY, Carter Burden Gallery, NY, NY, The Brother Chapman Gallery at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, “Art in the Parks” at Highbridge Park, Manhattan, NY and “On the Rock”, Rockaway National Seashore, Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY, “Memory” www.newyorksocietyofwomenartists.com, Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, NY, “Lost & Found” www.nyartistscircle.com, Leonia Sculpture Park, Leonia, NJ, The Hudson Valley Museum (HvMoca), Amherst College, MA – Hampden Gallery, The Akin Museum, St Peters Church, E. 54th Street, NY, The Howland Center in Beacon, NY, The Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY, The Zerillo – Marimo Gallery at NYU, Salem Art Works, Jacob Riis National Park at Ft. Tilden through RAA (Rockaway Artists Alliance), Lockwood-,Matthews Mansion – 14 Sculptors outdoor installation, Norwalk CT and Governors Island.
S.G.P. 2024