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'''Eleanor Antin''' (née '''Fineman'''; February 27, 1935) is an American [[performance art]]ist, [[film-maker]], [[installation art]]ist, [[conceptual art]]ist and, [[feminist art]]ist, and university professor.<ref name=Meeker2009/>

Eleanor Fineman was born in the [[Bronx]] on February 27, 1935.<ref>[http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/antin-eleanor "Eleanor Antin"], Jewish Women's Archive; retrieved February 23, 2017.</ref> Her parents, Sol Fineman and Jeanette Efron, were Polish Jews who had recently immigrated to the United States. She had one sister, Marcia, born 1940.<ref name=Meeker2009/>

She attended the [[High School of Music & Art|Music and Art High School]] in New York,<ref name=Meeker2009/> [[The New School|New School for Social Research]], and then the [[City College of New York]],<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-02/entertainment/-ca-50055_1_art50055-worldstory.html|title=ART : Ever the 'Wicked Little Girl' : Eleanor Antin's works may be on the fringe, but her audience isn't. Her latest alter ego is a demonic little angel.|last=Ollman|first=Leah|date=April 2, 1995|worknewspaper=LA Times|access-date=February 2, 2018}}</ref> graduating in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/people/eleanor-antin/|title=Eleanor Antin, Artist|website=The Getty|access-date=February 1, 2018}}</ref>

ThereAt CCNY she met fellow student [[David Antin]], a poet and art critic who would become her husband in 1961.<ref name=Handy1989/><ref name="aaa.si.edu"/> She studied acting and had some roles, including performing in a staged reading with [[Ossie Davis]] at the first [[NAACP]] convention.<ref name="aaa.si.edu"/> She and her husband moved to San Diego in 1968 with their infant son, Blaise Antin.<ref name=":2" />

She taught at the [[University of California at Irvine]] from 1974–791974 to 1979, and from 1979 was a professor of visual arts at the [[University of California at San Diego]].<ref name=DWA1997/>

''100 Boots'' is Antin's best-known [[conceptual art|conceptual work]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Eleanor Antin profile|url=http://blogs.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/people/eleanor-antin|publisher=Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center|access-date=May 13, 2014}}</ref> In this project, she set up 100 boots in various configurations and settings,<ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book |last1=Phaidon Editors |title=Great womenWomen artistsArtists |dateyear=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=0714878774978-0714878775 |page=36}}</ref> photographed them, and created 51 postcards of the images that were mailed to hundreds of recipients around the world from 1971-73 to 1973.<ref>{{cite web|title=100 Boots|url=http://blogs.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/worksofart/100-boots|publisher=Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center|access-date=May 13, 2014}}</ref> ''100 Boots'' relied on the recipients to remember and construct the boots' adventures, as the postcards were mailed out at intervals ranging from 3 days to 5 weeks "depending upon what [Antin] took to be the 'internal necessities' of the narrative."<ref name=":1" /> It documents the boots in a mock picaresque photo [[diary]], beginning at the [[Pacific Ocean]] and ending in New York City, where their journey was presented in an exhibition at the [[Museum of Modern Art]].

She has had dozens of [[solo exhibition]]s and has been represented in countless group exhibitions, including at the [[Hirshhorn Museum]], the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|Museum of Contemporary Art]] in Los Angeles, the [[Kunsthalle Wien]], and [[documenta]] 12 in Kassel.<ref name="brooklynmuseum.org">{{cite web|title=Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Eleanor Antin |publisher=Brooklyn Museum|url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/eleanorantin.php|access-date=May 13, 2014}}</ref> Her work is in the permanent collections of the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], the [[Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Jewish Museum (Manhattan)|Jewish Museum]], and the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], among others.<ref>{{cite web|title=Eleanor Antin profile|url=http://visarts.ucsd.edu/faculty/eleanor-antin|publisher=University of California at San Diego|access-date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=August 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809054336/http://visarts.ucsd.edu/faculty/eleanor-antin|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster [[Some Living American Women Artists (collage) | Some Living American Women Artists]] by [[Mary Beth Edelson]].<ref name="SAAM">{{cite web |title=Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/some-living-american-women-artistslast-supper-76377 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref>

* "State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970", "[[Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980|Pacific Standard Time]]" at the Getty Center, October 1, 2011 – February 5, 2012, Los Angeles, California, and Bronx Museum of Art, June 23-September 8, 2013, Bronx, New York.<ref>{{cite web|last=Deimling|first=Kate|title=The California "State of Mind": A Q&A With Curator Karen Moss|url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/911627/the-california-state-of-mind-a-qa-with-curator-karen-moss|publisher=Blouin ArtInfo|date=June 13, 2013|access-date=May 13, 2014|archive-date=February 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220161913/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/911627/the-california-state-of-mind-a-qa-with-curator-karen-moss|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Awards ==

{{reflist|refs=<ref name=AntinBio>{{cite web|title=Eleanor Antin profile|url=http://www.feldmangallery.com/media/pdfs/bios/Antin_bio.pdf|publisher=Ronald Feldman Fine Arts|access-date=May 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514114633/http://www.feldmangallery.com/media/pdfs/bios/Antin_bio.pdf|archive-date=May 14, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="aaa.si.edu">{{cite interview|last=Antin|first=Eleanor|interviewer=Judith Olch Richards|title=Oral history interview with Eleanor Antin, 2009 May 8-9|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-eleanor-antin-15792|date=May 8–9, 2009|work=Archives of American Art|publisher=Smithsonian}}</ref><ref name=DWA1997>{{cite book|last=Spivey|first=Virginia B.|editor=Delia Gaze|year=1997|title=[[Dictionary of Women Artists]], Volume 1|chapter=Antin, Eleanor|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|isbn=978-1-884964-21-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofwome01gaze/page/193 193–95]}}</ref><ref name=Handy1989>{{cite book|last=Handy|first=Amy|title=Making Their Mark. Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985|editor1=Randy Rosen|editor2=Catherine C. Brower|chapter=Artist's Biographies - Eleanor Antin|publisher=Abbeville Press|date=1989|page=[https://archive.org/details/makingtheirmarkw0000unse/page/238 238]|isbn=0-89659-959-0|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/makingtheirmarkw0000unse/page/238}}</ref><ref name=Hoberman2014>{{cite journal|last=Hoberman|first=J.|title=Eleanor Antin's Conversations with Stalin|date=2014|journal=Bookforum|volume=20|issue=4|page=46}}</ref><ref name=Knight1999>{{cite news|last=Knight|first=Christopher|title=Picture the Concept... Eleanor Antin, the subject of a 30-year LACMA retrospective, has made a mark playing with ideas in myriad personae. But who is she really?|url=httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/1999archives/la-xpm-1999-may/-16/entertainment/-ca-37599-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=May 16, 1999}}</ref><ref name=Meeker2009>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Carlene|last=Meeker|date=March 1, 2009|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/antin-eleanor|title=Eleanor Antin profile|encyclopedia=Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia|publisher=Jewish Women's Archive|access-date=May 13, 2014}}</ref><ref name=Stein1989>{{cite book|last1=Stein|first1=Judith E.|author2=Ann-Sargent Wooster|title=Making Their Mark. Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985|editor1=Randy Rosen|editor2=Catherine C. Brower|chapter=Making Their Mark - Art with an Agenda|publisher=Abbeville Press|date=1989|pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingtheirmarkw0000unse/page/136 136–38]|isbn=0-89659-959-0|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/makingtheirmarkw0000unse/page/136}}</ref>

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