• Most comprehensive publication on the artist to date

• Accompanies the first survey on the artist in more than two decades

• Features previously unseen archival material and images

For more than fifty years, Eleanor Antin (b. 1935, New York) has been a distinctive voice in American contemporary art, notably for building lasting and pioneering connections between conceptual art and feminist movements, literature, and performance. This extensive monograph, the most comprehensive on Antin to date, accompanies the first retrospective of the artist in twenty-five years and the first ever in Europe. It reproduces images of Antin’s seminal works, many of which circle around her various invented personas, and of her performances, photographs, films and installations. It also includes previously unpublished ephemera, poems, and images. The commissioned texts each dive into a key facet of Antin’s work: her life in New York and then San Diego; her Jewish identity, her feminist stance, the performative aspect of her work, her films, the impact of her art on a younger generation of artists, and her unfailing humour. It also features a complete exhibition history, a comprehensive list of works, and a detailed timeline of her life.

Artist biography

Eleanor Antin is a key figure emerging from the Conceptual art movements of the 1970s. Today as an octogenarian artist, she remains one of the world's leading Feminist artists. Her ground-breaking practice spans five decades and has covered themes surrounding identity, gender, autobiography, class and social structures. Antin's multi-disciplinary approach includes installation, painting, drawing, writing and most notably photography and performance. Over the last 50 years Antin has performed and exhibited her work internationally. She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at the Art Institute of Chicago (2019); the Henry Moore Foundation (2016); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2014); the San Diego Art Museum (2008); the Mead Gallery, Warwick (2001); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1999); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1997) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1973).

Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna; the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; MOCA, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2023); K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2020) and the British Museum, London (2019). Her work is also included in the collections of institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum, New York; Museion, Bolzano; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Jewish Museum, New York and SFMOMA, San Francisco.

Eleanor Antin lives and works in San Diego.

Language: English

Release date: 2025

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 32 x 24,5 cm

Editors:Vanessa Joan Müller and Bettina Steinbrügge

Texts: Lisa E. Bloom, Andrea Bowers, Haden Guest, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Jason McBride, Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Olaf Nicolai, Letizia Ragaglia, Alexandro Segade, Bettina Steinbrügge

Design: Espace Ness

Publishers: Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Hatje Cantz

€48,00