Eleanor Antin

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is pleased to present Alternative Facts, a solo exhibition of photographs, video, and drawing by Eleanor Antin (USA, b. 1935). A key figure emerging from the Conceptual and feminist art movements of the 1970s, Eleanor Antin challenged the formal gallery system and its definitions of sculpture, performance, and self-portraiture. Alternative Facts considers the significant legacy of alternative art spaces in Los Angeles, namely the artist’s influential exhibitions at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA) and the Orlando Gallery from 1972-1978. This is Antin's fourth solo exhibition with Diane Rosenstein Gallery.

“A few years ago a number of artists took advantage of the breakdown in the avant-garde academy to explore the possibilities of working in a greater variety of media and genres…I am interested in defining the limits of myself...The usual aids to self-definition - sex, age, talent, time and space - are merely tyrannical limitations upon my freedom of choice.”

—Eleanor Antin, “An Autobiography of the Artist as an Autobiographer,” The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Journal, October, 1974

Eleanor Antin (USA, b. 1935) is a key figure emerging from the Conceptual art movements of the 1970s. Today, she is 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, film, and most notably photography and performance.

Over the last fifty-five years Antin has performed and exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Next month, a major European retrospective, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge, opens at MOCAK Kraków. Antin's work is in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago; The Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the Jewish Museum; LACMA; The Hammer; The Morgan Library; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1997. The artist lives in San Diego, CA.