Liam Porisse

1962 - England.
Liam Porisse the son of a French father and an Irish mother ; simply lived within the art world. His father JulienPorisse (1927-2013) was a painter, exposing his works in the Bohemian area of Montmartre. Paris.
Liam graduated in 1983 from Leicester Polytechnic with a BA in fine art. He then returned to Paris , where he studied in the atelier Pierre Caron (1932 - 2022 ), at L'Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris. He graduated in 1985 , and then travelled to the USA , and to New York City where met artists such as Keith Haring , David Salle, Jean Michel Basquiat . He returned to Paris where he started to commercialise T.Shirt models and for a number of years had a successful T.shirt company with models such as ART 1989, 1990 & 1991. During the 1980 s Liam Porisse was painting in a very street art visual language , incorporating text , and different styles within the paintings. Neoexpressionism opened the possibility to mix figuration and abstraction . The movement started in the 1970 s in Germany, and its credo was no laws , the artist could use whatever materials he wished the creative liberty was at its maximum .
The first representatives were the German artists Anselm Kiefer, Jorg Immendorff and ...

Leicester Polytechnic (DMU) BA Fine Art - 1981-84
Leicester Polytechnic (Foundation Course) - 1980
École National Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris - 1985
(Atelier Pierre Caron)
Academie de la Grande Chaumière .

Individual Exibitions


2020 Sesi Riberao Preto. Brazil. Curator Denise Mattar.
2019 Sesi Riberao Preto. Brazil Curator Denise Mattar
2019 British Cultural Centre. Sao Paulo. Curator Denise Mattar.
2018 Galeria sub solo. Sao Paulo. Brazil.
2018 Galeria Raquel Arnaud.Sao Paulo. Brazil.
2016 Galeria Rabieh. Matrizes expandidas. Curator
Andres hernandes.
2016 SPArte. Sao Paulo. Galeria Rabieh.
2016 British Consulate. Sao Paulo. Brazil. Expanded
Matrices. Curator Andres Hernandez.
2015 SESI-SP . Sao José dos Campos.Brazil. Cartographias Visuas.
2016 SESI-SP. Campinas . Brazil. Cartographias Visuas.
2014 MAC .Museum of Contemporary art of Pernambuco.Bola na Rede . Olinda. Brazil.2014.
2012 - "Spirit Diggers" - Blast - Matignon Gallery - Paris, France
2013 - "The Kingdom of Fantoche" - Robson Brito Gallery- São paulo, Brazil
Toile d'Or de la Culture Française - 2010
Prix du Conseil régionale des Yveslines. 2004.


Art Fairs
SP-Arte - São Paulo, Brazil - 2010
ArtParis - Paris, France - Galerie W Landau - 2013

Group Exhibitions
2024Galeria Sergio Caribé . São Paulo. Brazil
2023 Comparte Arte. British Cultural Centre. Pinheiros . São Paulo. Brazil.
2022 Comparte Arte . British Cultural centre . São Paulo. Brazil.
2011 Florence Biennale...