Jenelle Porter, Family Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, is an author of exhibition catalogs and essays about contemporary art and craft. She has curated exhibitions that have helped studio craft to gain acceptance as fine arts, including Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (co-curated with Ingrid Schaffner) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2009) and Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2014).

Recent exhibitions include “Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams,” and one-person exhibitions of Charline von Heyl, Mary Reid Kelley, Jeffrey Gibson, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Dianna Molzan, and Christina Ramberg. She has written essays for several catalogues and journals, as well as books on artists Charline von Heyl, Trisha Donnelly, Stephen Prina, and Matthew Ritchie. She is currently working on a major survey exhibition of sculpture in fiber, and a survey of Arlene Shechet.

Porter obtained her BA in art history from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1994, and went on to obtain an MA in critical and curatorial studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. Prior to joining ICA Boston in January 2011, she was curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia from 2005 to 2010, and from 1998 to 2001 she was curator at Artists Space in New York. She was a curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center in 1997-98, and a curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1994 to 1997.