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Eleanor Antin ![Antin Plaisir D Amour After Couture 2007](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/10488/Antin-Plaisir-d-Amour-after-Couture-2007.jpg) Eleanor Antin Plaisir d'Amour (after Couture), 2007 Biography ELEANOR ANTIN, works in photography, video, film, installation, drawing, performance, and writing. Many one-woman exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and a major retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which traveled to St. Louis and toured the UK. As both a performing and exhibiting artist she has appeared in venues around the world including the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale and Opera House and Documenta 12.She created a number of works that are considered conceptual, feminist classics such as "CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture”, “100 BOOTS”, her 3 personas (the King, the Ballerina and the Nurse) realized in a wide variety of media and for the last decade and a half has been working on large photographic tableaux of narrative and allegorical scenes from an imagined ancient Rome, i.e. “The Last Days of Pompeii”. She has written, directed and produced many videotapes and films, among them the cult feature, “The Man Without a World”, 1991, (Berlin Film Fest., U.S.A. Film Fest., Ghent Film Fest., London Jewish Film Fest, etc.) Her work is represented in many major public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, the Beaubourg, the Verbund Collection, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, etc. She has written 6 books, BEING ANTINOVA (Astro Artz), ELEANORA ANTINOVA PLAYS (Sun & Moon), 100 BOOTS (Running Press), “MAN WITHOUT A WORLD: a Screenplay” (Green Integer, Sun&Moon Press), “CONVERSATIONS WITH STALIN” (Green Integer). Her new book “An Artist’s Life by Eleanora Antinova” was recently published by Hirmerverlag, Munich, along with a re-publication of “Being Antinova”. Major monographs on her work include The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “ELEANOR ANTIN”, "HISTORICAL TAKES” (Prestel) and “MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY: ELEANOR ANTIN’S SELVES” (Columbia University, N.Y.) She received many awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 from the Women’s Caucus of the College Art Association, 2 Best Show AICA Awards (International Assoc. of Art Critics), a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Media Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California at San Diego. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View CV ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/Antin_bio_2024-04-02-211554_jyrf.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Packet ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Antin_Selected-Press.pdf) Select Press Jun 17, 2016 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Eleanor_Antin_Artnews.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2016-antin-artnews-wagley) Art News Group Show [ Revisiting Eleanor Antin’s Groundbreaking Conceptual Portraits ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2016-antin-artnews-wagley) Sep 04, 2013 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin/Antin-Two-Eleanors-1973.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2013-antin-nytimes) New York Times Group Show [ She Creates Herself in Multitudes ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2013-antin-nytimes) Exhibitions [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Burden-Doorway-to-Heaven-1973_2025-08-26-193130_lpzr.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 Group Show [ Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Warhol-Moonwalk-pink-1987.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show [ Airspace ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin_2-The-Conversation-from-The-Last-Days-of-Pompeii-2001_1_200506_140344.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/prescient) May 08 – Jun 19, 2020 Group Show [ Prescient: A Five-by-Five Virtual Exhibition ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/prescient) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Salavon-Class-of-88-Diptych_190606_204821.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/344-group-show-summer-2019) Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show [ Summer 2019 ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/344-group-show-summer-2019) [See All Exhibitions ](/past_exhibitions/eleanor-antin) ![Antin Blood Of A Poet 1965 68 300Dpi](/assets/artist_images/Antin-Blood-of-a-Poet-1965-68-300dpi.JPG) Eleanor Antin Blood of a Poet, 1965-98 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Antin Blood Of A Poet 1965 68 300Dpi]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Blood of a Poet, 1965-98 ![Antin 100 Boots Facing The Sea 1971]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin 100 Boots Facing the Sea, 1971 ![Antin 100 Boots On The Way To Church 1971]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin 100 Boots On the Way to Church, 1971 ![Antin The Last Seven Days 1972]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Carving: A Traditional Sculpture (detail), 1972 ![Antin Portrait Of The King 1972 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Portrait of the King, 1972 ![My Kingdom Is The Right Size From King Of Solana Beach 1974]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin My Kingdom is the Right Size, 1974 from The King of Solana Beach ![Antin Wonder Of It All From King Of Solana Beach 51974 75]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Wonder of it All, 1974-75 from The King of Solana Beach ![Antin Hebrews From Recollections Of My Life With Diaghilev 1919 1929 1976 78 Pose 3 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Hebrews from Recollections of My Life with Diaghilev 1919-1929, 1976-78 ![Antin Pocahontas From Recollections Of My Life With Diaghilev 1919 1929 1976 77 Pose 1 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Pocahontas from REcollections of My Life with Diaghilev 1919-1929, 1976-77 ![Antin The Man Without A World 1991 02]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin The Man Without a World, 1991 video still ![Antin Death Of Petronius From The Last Days Of Pompeii 2001 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Death of Petronius, 2001 from The Last Days of Pompeii ![Antin The Artists Studio From The Last Days Of Pompeii 2001 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin The Artist's Studio, 2001 from The Last Days of Pompeii ![Antin Constructing Helen 2007]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Eleanor Antin Constructing Helen, 2007 ![Antin I Wish I Had A Paper Doll I Could Call My Own 2016 02](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin-I-wish-I-had-a-paper-doll-I-could-call-my-own...-2016_02.JPG) I wish I had a paper doll I could call my own..., 2016 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Antin I Wish I Had A Paper Doll I Could Call My Own 2016 02]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) I wish I had a paper doll I could call my own..., 2016 installation view ![Antin Minetta Lane A Ghost Story 1994 5Install View 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Minetta Lane - A Ghost Story, 1995 installation view ![Antin North Gallery Installation View A 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Helen's Odyssey, 2008 installation view ![Antin South Gallery Installation View C 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Helen's Odyssey, 2008 installation view ![Antin South Gallery Installation View B 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Helen's Odyssey, 2008 installation view ![Antin I Wish I Had A Paper Doll I Could Call My Own 2016 02](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin-I-wish-I-had-a-paper-doll-I-could-call-my-own...-2016_02.JPG) ![Antin Minetta Lane A Ghost Story 1994 5Install View 2](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin-Minetta-Lane-A-Ghost-Story-1994-5install-view-2.JPG) ![Antin North Gallery Installation View A 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin-North-Gallery-installation-view-A-2008.JPG) ![Antin South Gallery Installation View C 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin/2008/Antin-South-Gallery-installation-view-C-2008.JPG) ![Antin South Gallery Installation View B 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin/2008/Antin-South-Gallery-installation-view-B-2008.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Antin I Wish I Had A Paper Doll I Could Call My Own 2016 02]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) I wish I had a paper doll I could call my own..., 2016 installation view ![Antin Minetta Lane A Ghost Story 1994 5Install View 2]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Minetta Lane - A Ghost Story, 1995 installation view ![Antin North Gallery Installation View A 2008]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Helen's Odyssey, 2008 installation view ![Antin South Gallery Installation View C 2008]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Helen's Odyssey, 2008 installation view ![Antin South Gallery Installation View B 2008]() 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