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 and Sylvia Stone. Siena was awarded a Full Graduate Fellowship at The Pennsylvania State University, and received an MFA in Sculpture. Currently her work is represented by 14 Sculptors Gallery Inc. NY, NY, The National Association of Women Artists, The New York Society of Women Artists and the New York Artists Circle.
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.
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 of Contemporary Art at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Bergen Community College and Ramapo College of NJ.
Her biography is listed, among others, in Who's Who in America. She 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. 25th St., NY. Porta 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.
Recent exhibitions include “Sculpture for Leonia”, “Women on the Edge of Time” TALLER BORICUA Gallery, NY, NY, 3/2021., The Hudson Valley Museum (HvMoca) , The Carter Burden Gallery, Manhattan, NY, , The Hammond Museum, Blue Mountain Gallery, NY, Prince Street Gallery , NY, Amherst College - Hampden Gallery, The Akin Museum, Rockaway National Park, St Peters Church, E. 54th Street, NY, Highbridge Park Manhattan, NY, The Howland Center in Beacon, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY, The Zerillo - Marimo Gallery at NYU, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Governors Island.
Virtual exhibitions during the time of COVID include, Inspiration Art Group International 2022, “Memory” newyorksocietyofwomenartists.com, “At Risk” 14sculptors.com and “Women on the Edge of Time” TALLER BORICUA Gallery, NY, NY, 3/2021.
Represented by:
NOHO M55 Gallery at 548 West 28th Street, Suite 634, NY, NY
14 Sculptors Inc, NY, NY
NYSWA (NY Society of Women Artists)
NAWA (National Society of Women Artists)
New York Artists Circle and Inspiration Art Group International.
S.G.P. 2024