Exhibitions
2024
- Deconstructing Disability. Raizes Gallery, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley Art + Design, Cambridge, MA (co-curator)
2023
- Remedy: How We Heal, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA
- Lesley MFA 20th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition. Vandernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2022
- National Prize Show. Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
- Reflective Narratives (solo). All She Wrote Books, Sommerville, MA
2021
- LA+D Faculty Exhibition. Lesley Art + Design, Cambridge, MA
- Eye of the Beholder. Foundation Fighting Blindness, Online
- August Salon, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- July Salon, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Content/Context, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
2020
- Taking Inventory, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Art Ability, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, PA
1st Prize Mixed Media, The James Panasci Family Memorial Award - WINTERMISION II, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
2019
- Coastal Skye, Skye Gallery, Providence, RI & Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Diversified Portfolio, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Brave and Bold, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Unleashing, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
2018
- Impart: Works by Bill Porter, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- W-Intermission, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Art for the View:An Exhibition Celebrating Artists with Physical Disabilities, Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Schenectady, NY. Awarded: “Best in Show.”
- Home, Artist Corner Gallery, Acton, MA
- Hard Edge Painting, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
- Heat On Thames: A Summer Soiree, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- New England Collective IX, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
- A Stable System: Rotational Remix, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Collective Extravaganza: A Grand Event, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- On Board: Joining Forces, Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI
- Dialogues: Medium and Materiality, New Arts Center, Newton, MA
2017
- Postcard to Maud…Please Forward, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- Myths and Valor, The Front Space, Rollinsford, NH
- Up/Rooted, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
- Half-Truth, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2016
- A Group Thing, Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, MA
- New England Collective VII, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
- Magnitude Seven, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
- 15th Annual National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
- Repurposed, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
- Directions, Roberts Gallery, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA
2015
- New New England, Galley 263, Cambridge, MA
- Folktales & Legends, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
- Re:Classified: LUCAD/AIB MFA Alumni Biennial, Warehouse XI, Somerville, MA
- Small Works Salon 2015: Word + Image, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- This into That: Found Object Art, Assemblage, and Other Transformed Work, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA
- MFA in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition, Washburn Hall, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2014
- ‘Auto-biography’: Artists (Re)Writing and Telling Histories, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, TX
- Emerge Boston, Menino Arts Center, Hyde Park, MA
Published Writing
2022
- Student-Led Peer Review: A Practical Guide to Implementation Across Disciplines and Modalities. Clark, S. Cummins, L., Lowe K., Porter, B., Spitz, L. Stylus Publishing, LLC. Print. & eBook.
2019
- ‘I Hate Peer Critique!’: Building a Foundation for Effective Peer Review/Critique. Lowe, K., Cummins, L., Clark, S., Porter, B., Pursley, & Spitz, L. Lesley University.
Published Studio Work
2022
2021
2019
- PROCESS Issue No. 5. Print.
2018
- Manifest International Painting Annual 7. Print.
- Art for the View (Exhibition Catalog). Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital. Print.
2016
- Fresh Paint Magazine, “Issue 15,” October 2016. Print.
- 15th National Prize Show (Exhibition Catalog) Presented by Cambridge Art Association. Print.
- About Place Journal, Vol. IV Issue II: “Animals Among Us: Strangeness, Intimacy, and Reciprocity,” Black Earth Institute. Online.
2015
- Re:Classified, LUCAD MFA Alumni Biennial. Lesley University College of Art and Design. Print.
“Abitur-Pruefungsaufgaben Englisch Berlin.” STARK/Pearson, Freising, Germany. Print. - “RAAbits Englisch.” RAABE, Stuttgart, Germany. Print.
- “Weicheier oder Experten der Work-Life-Balance?- Die Generation Y.” K.lab Berlin. Online.
Manifest International Painting Annual 7 featuring Bill Porter’s painting, So Help Me on the cover.
Press
2025
- “Rethinking Blindness: Bill Porter’s Perspective.” Men in Motion. Beyond Sight Magazine. May 2025. Online.
2024
- “Deconstructing Disability: Expressing Identity and Perspective.” K. Regal. Lesley University News. Oct..2024. Online.
2022
- “It’s Not A ‘You’ Problem.” G. Sparling. Lesley University News. Mar.2022. Online.
2021
- “An Artist with Vision: The Bill Porter Story.” Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. June 2021. Online.
- Access Abilities with Dr. Dee Genetti. “Episode 7: Bill Porter.” WCTV. Live in studio. Interview.
2020
- Dangerous Vision with Randy Cohen (Season 2). Interview. Podcast.
2019
- “Spotlight: Bill Porter.” Community Connections July 2019. Foundation Fighting Blindness. Online.
2018
- “Meet Bill Porter.” Boston Voyager Magazine. Online.