Jenelle Porter is an American art curator and author of numerous exhibition catalogs and essays about contemporary art and craft.
She 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.
2015–present Independent curator, Los Angeles
2011– Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2005–11 Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1998–2005 Curator, Artists Space, New York
1997–98 Curatorial Fellow, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2016
Beverly Center Renovation Installation Projects, in associated with the Hammer Museum. Featuring a series of installation projects by artists Catherine Opie, Julian Hoeber, Geof McFetridge, Karen Kimmel, and Sharon Lockhart.
2015
Erin Shirreff, ICA Boston
Arlene Schechet: All at Once
2014
Fiber Sculpture, 1960–present
Nick Cave
2012
Figuring Color: Kathy Butterfly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams
2011
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Charline von Heyl
2010
Mineral Spirits: Anne Chu and Matthew Monahan
2009
Dance with Camera
Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay
The 2015 show "Arlene Schechet, All at Once" is praised for "giv[ing] readers a holistic look at how her work challenges the conventions of ceramics and sculpture."
Pepich, Bruce; McQuaid, Matilda; Porter, Jenelle; Stapleton, Lyssa (2016). The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press.
Hatley, Pan; Porter, Jenelle; Chaffee, Cathleen (2015). Erin Shirreff. ISBN 9781887457187.
Morineau, Camille; Pesapane, Lucia (2015). Ceramix: From Rodin to Schütte. Maastricht-Paris-Sèvres. ISBN 9789461612519.
Schaffner, Ingrid; Porter, Jenelle (2009). Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Philadelphia.
