Tina La Porta
Tina La Porta is a Miami-based digital artist who "focuses on issues surrounding identity in the virtual space". She was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. Her early work could be characterized as net:art or internet art. In 2001 she collaborated with Sharon Lehner on "My Womb the Mosh Pit", an artistic representation of Peggy Phelan's "Unmarked". La Porta is known for political and feminist art that explores gender, bodies and media such as the 2003 installation "Total Screen" which consists of enlarged Polaroid photographs of veiled men and women in TV news coverage  after the events of 9/11. Later work explores mental illness and pharmaceuticals. In 2012 she presented "Medicine Ball" at the Robert Fontaine Gallery as part of the "Warhol is Over?" exhibition; this followed a 2011 presentation of "All the Pills in My House", also at Fontaine's gallery. In 2015 she participated in the 40-person "Annual Interest" exhibition at the Young at Art Museum. Early life and education. Tina La Porta was born in Chicago, IL in 1967. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College in 1990 and a Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts  in New York, NY in 1994. Work. net.works + avatars, 1997 Distance, 1999 Re:mote_corp@REALities, 2001 Voyeur_Web, 2001 My Womb the Mosh Pit (with Sharon Lehner), 2001 Total Screen, 2003 All the Pills in My House, 2011 Medicine Ball, 2012 Side Effects, 2018 Solo exhibitions. Voyeur_Web, 2001 Total Screen, 2003 Side Effects, 2018