About Janine Antoni

  • Biography

    Janine Antoni was born in the Bahamas in 1964 and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. Antoni has a feminist* concern for cultural perceptions of sexuality, which she expresses in performance* art-making processes.

    She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the High Museum, Atlanta; the
    Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut; the Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

    In 1993 she participated in the Whitney Biennial and Venice Biennale*. She lives and works in New York. A 1992 installation* consisted of 600 pounds of chocolate before biting and 600 pounds of lard before biting, 45 heart shaped packages made from chewed chocolate, 400 lipsticks made from pigment, beesw...

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