Liliana Porter and Coco Fusco in Conversation at The Church

Co-presented with Dia Art Foundation, on Saturday, August 24, at 3 p.m. an exclusive dialogue will take place between two pioneering icons — Liliana Porter and Coco Fusco — at The Church in Sag Harbor. Moderated by MoMA curator of Latin American Art and Director of the Cisneros Center, Inés Katzenstein, an introduction will be given by Sheri Pasquarella, executive director of The Church, and Humberto Moro, deputy director of program at Dia Art Foundation.

This unique collaboration explores shared themes in the two summer exhibitions of the presenters: Liliana Porter, on view at Dia Bridgehampton from June 23, through June 1, 2025; and “Are You Joking? Women & Humor” at The Church, which includes Fusco among some 40-plus other artists.

Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Originally trained in printmaking, her practice spans painting, drawing, photography, assemblage, video, installation, public art, and, more recently, theater, the latter often developed in collaboration with artist Ana Tiscornia. In 1964, Porter moved to New York where she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop with artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo. In the city, her work was first shown in institutions such as the Jewish Museum in 1964; Pratt Graphic Art Center in 1967; and the Museum of Modern Art in 1973. Between 1991 and 2007, Porter was a professor at Queens College, City University of New York. In 2017, her work was included in the 57th Venice Biennale: “Viva Arte Viva” and in “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which traveled in 2018 to the Brooklyn Museum and the Pinacoteca, São Paulo. Porter lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Latinx Art Award, a Fulbright fellowship and a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is the author of four books and a Professor of Art at Cooper Union.

Tickets are $20 ($15 members) at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor. Visit thechurchsagharbor.org for details. Dia Bridgehampton is at 23 Corwith Avenue. Visit diaart.org for information.