Mircea Cantor

Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a Romanian-born artist who follows in the tradition of French artist Marcel Duchamp in that he employs readymade objects to elucidate the ambiguities of everyday life . Cantor's choice of media is diverse, in that he has employed video, animation, sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation in his practice.

Cantor's 2005 video work, "'Deeparture", which was on view in the contemporary galleries at The Museum of Modern Art, features a deer and a wolf together in a pristine white box environment. The visual effects are often ambiguous. Cantor's work is included in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunsthaus Zurich; Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany; Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden as well as in other collections worldwide. He was awarded with Ricard Prize in Paris in 2004; in 2011 he won Best Dance Short Film at Tiburon International Film Festival with Tracking Happiness movie. Also in 2011, he is the winner of Marcel Duchamp Prize 2011 in Paris.