About the Artist

Don Porcaro is a New York based artist whose work explores the nature of human interaction with the physical world through references to archeology and man-made objects. 

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, Artnews, The Brooklyn Rail, Art and Antiques, BOMB, Newsday, Newsweek, The Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, Creative Loafing, Gainesville Sun, The Brooklyn Paper, and in online journals White Hot Magazine, Artcritical, Hyperalleric, and Two Coats of Paint. In 2007 he was the subject of a featured profile in Sculpture Magazine.

His numerous large-scale outdoor sculpture installations include Bella Abzug Park at Hudson Yards, NY; The Mount, Lenox, MA; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC; Monaco Sculpture Biennial, Monaco, France; Forma Viva Sculpture Park, Portoroz, Slovenia; and Bad RagArtz Sculpture Triennial, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, among others. 

Public art commissions include the New Jersey Transit Authority for the Jersey Avenue Light Rail platform in Jersey City, NJ; and the Forma Viva International Sculpture Park in Portoroz, Slovenia. 

Porcaro is the recipient of awards and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Parsons School of Design for Teaching Excellence, and was a finalist for the 2013 International Sculpture Center’s Educator of the Year Award. He received his BFA in Fine Arts from Farleigh Dickenson University and his MFA in Sculpture from Columbia University.

Porcaro is Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design and is a member of The National Academy of Design and American Abstract Artists. He lives and works in New York and is represented by Westwood Gallery, NYC.