Jenelle Porter

Jenelle Porter is an American art curator and author of exhibition catalogs and essays about contemporary art and craft. She has curated exhibitions that have helped studio craft to gain acceptance as fine arts, including Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Education

Porter obtained her BA in art history from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1994, and went on to obtain an MA in critical and curatorial studies from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004.

Curatorial positions

From 1994 to 1997 Porter was curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. From 1997 to 1998 she was curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Between 1998 and 2001 she was curator at the in New York. From 2005 to 2011 she was curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and from 2011 to 2015 she was senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Since 2015 she has been an independent curator based in Los Angeles.

Selected exhibitions/curatorial activities

Selected publications