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Most exhibitions in:
Country	№
USA	70
Germany	8
Canada	7
Austria	6
Belgium	5

Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist	Rank	№
Chris Burden	246	22
Valie Export	71	22

Most exhibitions held at:
Institution		№
	Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, USA	17
	Galerie Erna Hécey, Belgium	5
	Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA	3

Biography:

1935 Born in Bronx, NY (US)

Eleanor Antin is internationally renown for her work in photography, video, film, performance, installation, drawing, and writing. She has had one-woman exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, etc. as well as a major 30 year retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which published a book ELEANOR ANTIN by Howard Fox. Her retrospective also traveled to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis and toured the U.K. She has been in major group exhibitions at the Hirschhorn Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Sydney Biennale, and the Beaubourg, among others.
She is represented in major collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, etc. As a performance artist she has appeared in venues around the world including the Venice Biennale and the Sydney Opera House. Several of her mixed media, groundbreaking works such as "100 BOOTS", "CARVING; A Traditional Sculpture", "The Angel of Mercy", "Recollections of my Life with Diaghilev", "The King of Solana Beach", "The Adventures of a Nurse," are frequently referred to as classics of feminist postmodernism. She is represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York.

She has written 4 books, BEING ANTINOVA (Astro Artz), ELEANORA ANTINOVA PLAYS (Sun & Moon), 100 BOOTS (Running Press), "MAN WITHOUT A WORLD" (Green Integer, Sun&Moon Press). She has made 9 videotapes, among them "Representational Painting", 1971, "The Ballerina and the Bum", 1973, "The Little Match Girl Ballet", 1975, "The Nurse and the Hijackers", 1977, and "From the Archives of Modern Art," 1989, (all tapes distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix).

She has written, directed and produced narrative films, among them the feature, "The Man Without a World", 1991, (Berlin Film Festival, U.S.A. Film Fest., Ghent Film Fest., London Jewish, San Francisco Jewish, Women in Film, etc.) and "The Last Night of Rasputin," 1989, (all films distributed by Milestone Film & Video), and video installations including "Loves of a Ballerina", 1986, and "Vilna Nights", 1993.

The first of her new large scale photographic works juxtaposing the world of ancient Rome with our contemporary world, "The Last Days of Pompeii", premiered at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in NY in Feb. 2002, for which she won a Best Show AICA Award (International Assoc. of Art Critics) and "Roman Allegories" opened at the Ronald Feldman gallery in the winter of 2005. Other recent awards include an AICA Best Show award in 1999 for her Los Angeles County Museum of Art retrospective, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997, National Foundation for Jewish Culture Media Achievement Award in 1998, and the Woman's Caucus of the College Art Association award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006.
Antin is an Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California at San Diego.

© 2006 Erna Hécey. All rights reserved.

Public exhibitions 112

from 22.11.

Eleanor Antin - Classical Frieze - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels

until 24.5.2010

elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris

until 19.12.

mise en scène - Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest

until 11.12.

Beyond Appearances - Lehman College Art Gallery, New York City, NY

Solo shows 18

2009

Classical Frieze: Eleanor Antin - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

Helen´s Odyssey - Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, New York City, NY

2007

Eleanor Antin - The Empire of Signs - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels

2006

Eleanor Antin - 100 Boots, 1971-73/2005 - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels

2004

Eleanor Antin - University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

2002