Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964, in Freeport, Bahamas) is a contemporary artist,who creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Her works focus mostly on process and the transitions between the making and finished product. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and brain as tools and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork.
She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA, and from the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in 1989. She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. She also works as a mentor at Columbia University School of the Arts.
She is married to fellow RISD alumnus Paul Ramirez Jonas and resides in NYC.
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