Eleanor Antin, a multifaceted artist, has been actively creating works in film, video, photography, installation, writing, and performance since the 1960s. Her artistic practice explores the concept of self, using fictional characters, autobiography, and narrative to invent histories and scrutinize the nature of identity.
Born in 1935 in New York City, Antin studied art at The High School of Music & Art and later received a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing and art from City College of New York in 1958. Her work has been showcased in numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and Jewish Museum, New York, among others.
Antin has also participated in several group exhibitions at prominent venues like the Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Walker Art Center, and the 37th Venice Biennale. Her work has been recognized with several retrospectives, including Eleanor Antin: I wish I had a paper doll I could call my own... at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in 2016, Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's Selves at the Wallach Art Gallery in 2013, and surveys at the Washington University Gallery of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Throughout her career, Antin has received numerous accolades, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association, a Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts Award from the Women's Caucus for Art, a Media Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
Eleanor Antin resides and works in San Diego, California.
