Portia Munson (born 1961) is an American visual artist who works in sculpture, installation, painting, and digital photography, focusing on themes related to the environment and feminism.
Critic Amanda Boetzkes writes: "A key aspect of Munson’s practice is the reorganization of these objects according to new taxonomies, sometimes classifying according to size, shape, and shade, while at other times she resorts to haphazard gathering, mounding, and containing.
Writing in the New York Times, Holland Cotter said, “Both assemblages generate a number of ideas, from how a culture infantilizes women and then markets that notion of femininity, to the way practically everyone shapes a sense of self through the accumulation of disposable things.”[4] “Pink Project: Table” was shown again in 2016 at the Frieze Art Fair, London.
John Vincler, of the New York Times, wrote about the show: “It’s hard to pull off the alchemist’s trick of turning tchotchkes and kitsch into art gold, but the Catskill, New York-based artist Portia Munson manages this handily, as if a rigorous method were applied to a hoarder’s madness, with intuitive groupings and hints of classification discernible within the clutter.” Vincler continues, “[The work’s] … hit differently in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Munson was commissioned in 2012 by the Arts and Design program of New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority to create a permanent laminated glass display for the Fort Hamilton Parkway station, on the elevated portion of the West End (D train) line.