Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1941, and has lived and worked in New York since 1964. An Argentine artist with an international career, she has developed a conceptual practice spanning printmaking, photography, drawing, painting, video, installation, theater, public art, and works with objects, exploring fiction, time, narrative, representation, and the symbolic lives of everyday things. Since the 1970s, she has become known for creating poetic, absurd, and subtly humorous situations with small figures, toys, miniatures, and found objects, constructing scenes in which fragility, labor, memory, symbolic violence, and theatricality become central themes. Her works frequently suspend the boundary between reality and imagination, transforming minimal gestures and precise spatial arrangements into reflections on existence, language, effort, and mortality.

She has participated in major international exhibitions, including shows at the Pérez Art Museum Miami — PAMM, El Museo del Barrio in New York, the San José Museum of Art, the Museo Tamayo in Mexico, MALBA in Buenos Aires, and institutions such as MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Hammer Museum. Her works are held in significant institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art — MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San José Museum of Art, the Museo Reina Sofía, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, and the Daros Latinamerica Collection.