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Died
  
22 April 2013, New York City, New York, United States

Ellen Cantor (1961-2013) was an American artist. Cantor came to prominence in the early 1990s, garnering critical acclaim and notoriety—particularly in her dual hometowns of London and New York—as part of a young generation of feminist artists exploring new modes of female representation. Cantor was known for combining pornography, politics, pop culture and the handmade in her paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos, and films.

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Ellen Cantor CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Early Life and education

Ellen Cantor CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Born in Detroit, Michigan to a Jewish family, Cantor completed her studies at Brandeis University in 1983 with a degree in painting. She went on to study at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where she took her second degree in 1991.

Solo exhibitions and screenings

Cantor exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions and screenings.

Ellen Cantor Joseph Grigely and Ellen Cantor Frieze

  • Be My Baby, Delfina, London, 1999; XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York, 1998 and 1996; Feigen, Chicago, 1997; Cabinet, London, 1996; and Postmasters, New York, 1995.
  • Video Drawing 1996-2001, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2000; Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, 2001.
  • Ellen Cantor Cerith Wyn Evans, Kunsthalle Wien, 2002; Sketch, London, 2005; Prince Charles Cinema, London, 2005.
  • Path of Sun – Road of Life, 1000000 mph, London, 2006
  • Within a Budding Grove, Participant Inc, New York, 2008; White Cubicle, London, 2008; Abbt Projects, Zurich, 2007
  • Subversive Cinema: Ellen Cantor, curated by Lux, Zoo art fair, London, 2009
  • Serpentine Cinema: Film in Progress, Serpentine Gallery, curated by Nicola Lees/Victoria Brooks, London, 2009
  • Séance de projection de films, La GAD, Gallerie Arnaud Deschin, Marseille, 2011
  • The Dictator & the Maid, The Black Mariah, Cork, Ireland, curated by Dallas Seitz & The Black Mariah, 2014
  • Ellen Cantor at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Cinderella Syndrome at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco curated by Jamie Stevens and Fatima Hellberg, 2015–16

    • Death and legacy

    Ellen Cantor Ellen Cantor at Wattis Contemporary Art Daily

    Cantor died on Monday, April 22, 2013 at the age of 55 in her apartment in New York City after a year-long battle with lung cancer.

    In 2016, a series of concurrent exhibitions, public programs, and screenings featuring the work of Cantor took place at 80WSE Gallery, Maccarone, Electronic Arts Intermix, Participant Inc., and Foxy Production, with public programs hosted by Skowhegan and the world premiere of Cantor's film Pinochet Porn (2008-2016) at the Museum of Modern Art.

    Ellen Cantor CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

    Ellen Cantor

    References

    Ellen Cantor Wikipedia
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