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==Early life and education==
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.
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 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>
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At 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
== Career ==
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In 1969, she created a portrait, ''Molly Barnes'', out of "a lush lavender bath rug, a noisy electric Lady Schick razor, a patch of spilled talcum powder and a scattering of pink and yellow pills."<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: Sourcebook of Artist Writings|edition=Second|last=Stiles|first=Kristine|publisher=University of California Press|year=2012|isbn=9780520257184|location=Berkeley|pages=[https://archive.org/details/theoriesdocument0000unse/page/892 892–894]|url=https://archive.org/details/theoriesdocument0000unse/page/892}}</ref> ''Molly Barnes'' was just one of a series of "semantic portraits of people, sometimes real, some-times fictional, [made] out of configurations of brand-new consumer goods" that Antin created.<ref name=":1" />
''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 |title=Great Women Artists |year=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=36}}</ref> photographed them, and created 51 postcards of the images that were mailed to hundreds of recipients around the world from 1971
In a famous performance work of 1972, ''Carving: A Traditional Sculpture'', Antin photographed her naked body at 148 successive stages during a month of crash-dieting.<ref name=Stein1989/> The somber, almost classical work is a staple of early feminist art, according to the New York Times art critic Karen Rosenberg.<ref name=":0" />
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* 2003: [[International Association of Art Critics]], Best Gallery Show for "The Last Days of Pompeii"
* 2009: Awarded The Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
* 2023: UC San Diego Revelle Medal Award, highest award to an
==See also==
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