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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=http://articles.latimes.com/1995-04-02/entertainment/ca-50055_1_art-world|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|newspaper=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 1974–79, and from 1979 was a professor of visual arts at the [[University of California at San Diego]].<ref name=DWA1997/>