TUESDAY, APRIL 27
5PM, KRESGE THEATRE
JANINE ANTONI was born in Freeport, Bahamas, and received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. In 1998, she won both a MacArthur Fellowship and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Grant followed by a Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999. Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture, transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art. Her primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body, whether chiseling cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth, or using brainwave signals recorded from her dreams as a pattern for weaving a blanket. Antoni has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad at venues including Luhring Augustine gallery in New York, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Reina Sofia in Madrid, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and The Aldrich Museum. Her work was included in the 1993 Venice Biennial, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the 1995 Johannesburg Biennial, the 1997 Istanbul Biennial, the 2000 Kwangju Biennial in Korea, SITE Santa Fe in 2002 and at Prospect.1: A Biennial for New Orleans 2008.
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