Jami Porter Lara is a New Mexico-based conceptual artist. Working across media such as ceramics, drawing, signage, textiles, and lithography, she tries to unbend normal, unsettle natural, and unwind beauty from its logic of power. She uses frictions between objects and ideas to stage moments of contradiction and instability, pursuing spaces where art makes more possible than language can hold.
Recent exhibitions include the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt in New York City; the Center for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh; the New Mexico Museum of Art; and Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA. Reviews of the work have appeared in Hyperallergic, Art21 Magazine, American Craft, American Art Collector, and Ceramics Monthly. Her work is held in the public collections of the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the U.S. Department of State; the Albuquerque Museum; and the New Mexico Museum of Art, among others. Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, SFAI, Arquetopia, and the Tamarind Institute.
