Born 1961 in Detroit, USA
† 2013 in New York, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Screenings

• 2024 —Naughty Little Girl Theory, Maison Populaire, Montreuil
• —Joy of Love, Participant Inc, New York City
• 2021 —Pinochet Porn, Metrograph, New York (Screening)
• 2020 —Artissima XYZ, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Turin
• 2019 —Pinochet Porn, Glasgow Film Festival, CCA Glasgow (Screening)
• —Pinochet Porn, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
• 2018 —A history of the world as it has become known to me, Participant Inc, New York
• —Pinochet Porn, Babylon Cinema, Berlin (Screening)
• —My Perversion is the Belief in True Love, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• 2017 —Pinochet Porn, REDCAT CalArt’s Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles
• —Ellen Cantor: Is Tragedy a Choice?, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
• —ELLEN CANTOR: I’m Still Coming, NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York
• —Pinochet Porn, mumok, Vienna (Screening)
• —Pinochet Porn, ICA London (Screening)
• 2016 —The Making of Pinochet Porn, Skowhegan NY Program Space, New York (Panel)
• —Modern Mondays Presents: Ellen Cantor’s Pinochet Porn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Screening)
• —Ellen Cantor: If I Just Turn and Run, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
• —Ellen Cantor, Lovely Girl’s Emotions, Participant Inc, New York
• —Ellen Cantor, Foxy Production, New York
• —Ellen Cantor, Are You Ready For Love?, 80WSE, New York
• —Mine are ‘true’ love stories…, Skowhegan, New York
• —Whitby Weekender, John Cussans and Ellen Cantor, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Screening)
• —Madame Bovary’s Revenge, Neuer Kunstverein, Wien
• 2015 —Cinderella Syndrome, CCA Wattis, San Francisco
• —Ellen Cantor, Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
• 2014 —Ellen Cantor: The Dictator & the Maid, The Black Mariah, Cork
• 2012 —BANG BANG, La GAD, Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Marseille
• —Séance de projection de films, La GAD – Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Marseille
• —Maybe I should have called it ‘My Life in Nineteen Minutes’, 74 Pine St, New York
• 2009 —Serpentine Cinema: Pinochet Porn in Progress, Serpentine Gate Cinema (cur. Nicola Lees)
• —Pinochet Porn (trailer), Participant Inc, New York (Screening)
• 2008 —Within a Budding Grove, Participant Inc, New York
• —Pinochet Porn: Raw Excerpts, White Cubicle, London
• —Ellen Cantor, Dustin Ericksen, Paul Lewish, Sara Mackillop, Rachmaninoff’s, London
• 2007 —New Works, Abbt Projects, Zurich
• —Whitby Weekender, Ellen Cantor and John Cussans, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg (Screening)
• 2006 —Ellen Cantor, 1000000mph, London
• —Whitby Weekender, Speaker Palace, London (screening)
• 2005 —Bambi’s Beastly Buddies, Sketch, London (screenings)
• —Ellen Cantor, Cerith Wyn Evans, Prince Charles Cinema, London (screening)
• 2004 —Videoscreenings, (curated with public interview by Chris Dercon, Munsterraum, Munich
• —Death Valley, Galerie Judin Belot, Zurich
• —Grateful Dead, Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife
• 2003 —Crazy Treasure Hunt: you don’t have to travel far for an adventure, Anne Faggionato, London
• —Lost in Jersey City: Ellen Cantor and Joseph Grigely, FA Projects, London
• 2002 —Video des monats, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna
• 2001 —Ellen Cantor, Marcus Ritter, New York
• —Ellen Cantor, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg Parkhaus, Dusseldorf
• 2000 —Ellen Cantor, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
• —The Snow White Cycle, Galerie Drantmann, Brussels
• 1999 —Be My Baby, Delfina, London
• —Video 1995-1998, Kunstverein, Salzburg
• —My Perversion is the Belief in True Love, Scalo Galerie, Zurich
• —Video screenings/Book launch, Lux Cinema, London
• —My Perversion is the Belief in True Love, Published by Scalo, Zurich, Kunsthalle Wien
• 1998 —Remember Me, XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York
• —Within Heaven and Hell, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
• 1997 —Ice Box, Athens
• —Remember Me, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz
• —Ellen Cantor, Feigen Gallery, Chicago
• —Ellen Cantor, Galerie Christian Drantmann, Brussels
• 1996 —Ellen Cantor, XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York
• —Ellen Cantor, arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
• —Video, Christian Schenkman, Zurich
• —Ellen Cantor, Cabinet Gallery, London
• —Ellen Cantor, Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York
• 1995 —Ellen Cantor, Postmasters, New York
• —TRE, Stockholm
• 1993 —Ellen Cantor, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

• 2023 —Video Store, Foxy Production, New York
• —”She*, They, He* Wanted Green Lawns, Evokation of my Demon Sister, Nionia Films, Chalandri
• 2022 —Lick, Stick, Leak, JOAN, 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles (Screening)
• 2021 —Solitary Waves, James Barron Art, New York
• 2019 —Penetrate: Translate Reading Group: Pinochet Porn in Progress, CCA Glasgow
• —Behind the Paravent Privé, Art United, Vienna
• —Our friend, Valerie Solanas, S!GNAL, Malmö
• —I got the Moon in the Morning and the Sun at Night, WallRiss, Fribourg
• —I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, ICA London
• —Life of a Flower: Rafael Sánchez with Ellen Cantor, Jim Fletcher, Mark Morrisroe, Gail Thacker, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
• 2018 —The Edge of the Earth, ICA London (Screening)
• —A history of the world as it has become known to me, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Screening), Stuttgart
• —Pinochet Porn, Finissage Kein Wunder, WallRiss, Fribourg (Screening)
• —L’Ennemi de mon ennemi, A project by Neïl Beloufa, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• —Blickle Archive Series #20: Ellen Cantor, Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21, Vienna (Screening)
• —Madame Bovary’s Revenge, Barbie London: Trouble in Space, Whitby Weekender: Dance Lesson, Galleria Leyendecker (Screening)
• 2016 —And then we came, The Queen Adelaide, London
• —Artists’ Film Biennial 2016, ICA London
• —I’m Still Coming, NY Art Book Fair — MoMA PS1 (Screening)
• —Coming To Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art by Women, Maccarone, New York
• 2015 —Over You, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
• —Trust, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copehagen
• —Alptraum, Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
• —Alternate Realities, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
• —Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
• —Your Tongue in My Mouth, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
• 2013 —Tramway Artists’ Moving Image Festival Glasgow, Glasgow
• —Pophits & Alptraum, Artspace RhenMain, Offenbach
• —The Photographic Self, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
• —Silent Anatomies, Galerie Nadine Feront
• —Works on Paper, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
• 2012 —Alptraum, The Nightmare Never Ends, X project Space, Berlin
• —Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Project
• —Alptraum, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila
• —Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Project Quezon City
• —Alptraum, Goethe-Institut Johannesburg
• —Bang Bang La GAD, Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Marseilles
• 2011 —¡ALPTRAUM!, Blank Projects, Cape Town; Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, USA; Washington D.C.; London; Berlin; Los Angeles
• —Kapstadt, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
• —ALPTRAUM/NIGHTMARE, Cell Project Space, London
• 2010 —Nothing Political, Komplot, Brussels
• —Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien – Project Space, Vienna
• —The House of Fairy Tales, Millennium, St. Ives, Cornwall
• —Y–The Back Issue, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad
• 2009 —Horn of Plenty, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London
• —Never Dance Alone, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing
• —The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
• —Komplot: Moves Downtown “Architecture of Survival”, Komplot Klub, Brussels
• —Three By Three (4), a series of exhibitions in Yinka Shonibare’s New Space, London; Nikos Rear Entrance, The Garage, West Brunswick
• —Sound of Music Part II, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate
• —Desir, Deux collections in dialogue, LAAC/FRAC Nord-Pas Calais, Dunkerque
• 2008 —Parkhaus, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
• —Ellen Cantor Dustin Ericksen Paul Lewis Sara MacKillop, Rachmaninoffs, London
• —Considering Detroit, MOCAD, Detroit
• —3am Eternal, Alexandre Pollazzon
• —Society of London Ladies, (cur. Arnaud des Jardin) Disparie Dispari gallery in Regio Emilia
• —Zombie Surfers, Cell Project Space, London
• —The House of Fairy Tales, organized by Jane Simpson, Gavin Turk, London (Printed Portfolio)
• —FYEO Collection Frac Nord–Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Fundacio Sunol, Barcelona, Spain; NETWORK Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst, Belgium; Shanghai Zendai Moma, Shanghai, China; V/08 Venice Video Art Fair, Venice, Italy; LE FRESNOY, Studio national des arts contmporains, Tourcoing; and LOTHRINGER 13, Stadtische Kunsthalle Munchen (cat.) Sound of Music, Tri Postal, Lille
• —Sound of Music, Spectacle Gonzo-Conference, La Piscine, Dunkerque
• —In Reality and Fictio, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon
• —The Sneeze 80 x 80, Albany History Museum, Grahamstown; Substation, Wits School of Arts, Braamfontein, Johannesburg
• —Patient Rooms, Reed Gallery, Cincinnati
• —How They Met: Josephine Pryde + Sarah Staton, Exhibition Poetry by Ellen Cantor, Galerie Bleich-Ross, Part 1—Mother and her house; Gabriele Senn, Galerie, Part 2—Sex, Vienna
• 2007 —Cinema Cavern, PS1, New York
• —Whose on first, Royal Academy Hornsey, London (printed book)
• —Itchy Park IV, Limehouse Townhall, London
• —Sound of Music, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk; Marres, Maastricht; and Frac Nord–Pas de Calais (cur. Hilde Teerlinck)
• —Dark Glasses, Standpoint Gallery, London
• —The Sneeze 80 x 80, The South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Iziko South African National Gallery [SANG] and Durban Art Gallery, Durban
• —Useless Issue 6 Release Party Bistrotek, Performance by Bob and Roberta Smith The Apathy Band, Ellen Cantor and the Fucks
• 2006 —Feminine Mystique, Galerie Steinek, Vienna
• —Thank you for the music, Sprüth Magers Lee / Sketch, London
• —Underground Lost and Found, V&A, London
• —Shoestring Baroqueland Cinematheque, Transition, London
• —In the Society of London Ladies, Miss China Beauty, Paris
• —Driving Fast Through a Slow-Motion Landscape, ESPAIUBU, Barcelona; CRAC ALSACE, Basel
• —Don Giovanni, Kunsthalle Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal; Vorarlberger, Kunstverein, Bregenz; Kunstverein Bregenz, Bregenz
• —Liquid Economics, Itchy Park III, Limehouse Townhall, London
• —Bad Drawing, University of Cincinnati, Keith Gallery, London
• 2005 —All the Pretty Corpses, (cur. Hamza Walker) Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago
• —Video Loop, Barcelona; Alexander Pollazon, London
• —2nd Biennale for Video Art, (cur. Cis Bierwickx), Contour, Mechelen
• —Itchy Park II, Limehouse Townhall, London
• —A journey to the 7 seas, a real time audio visual performance with Bughouse, Le Conforte Moderne, Poitiers

• —Wall Drawing, Pulse, Miami; Fred, London
• 2004 —Itchy Park I, Limehouse Townhall, London
• —Sneeze 80x80, (cur. Peter Lloyd Lewis and Natasha Makowski, Gazon Rouge, Athens
• —Planet B, (cur. Judith Reichart and Wolfgang Fetz), Kunstverein Bregenz
• —Cinderella, Trailer, London (cur. Caroline Brockbank and Juan Bolivar)
• 2003 —Forplay, Ritter/Zamet, London
• —10e Biennale de I’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva
• —L’Etrange Festival, Paris
• —Video Store, Foxy Productions, Brooklyn, NY; Soft Sun Down, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
• —Prend ca court!, Montreal
• —Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
• —Anemic Cinema, Sketch, London
• 2002 —handlungsanweisungen, Karlsplatz, Vienna
• —je t’aime... moi non plus, Bergen Kunsthalle, Bergen; Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard; ESAP, Perpignan; The Leisure Club Mogadishini, Copenhagen; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven; Metronom, Barcelona

• —Artaid 2002, Bloomberg, London
• —Jubilee 10 = 1, Magazin 4 Voralberger Kunstverein
• —Ellen Cantor, Robert Crumb, Tom of Finland, Annie Sprinkle, Feigen Contemporary, New York
• —Smack Bottom Face, Feigen Contemporary, New York
• 2001 —Runway, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam
• —Promises, promises?, I.G. Bildendekunst, Vienna
• —Masculinities, NIKOLAJ-Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center; 9e Biennale de I’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva
• —Heart of Glass, Mirror, London
• —Vertigo, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz
• —My Generation, Atlantis, London
• —Mixed Pickles, Galerie Leyendecker, Tenerife
• 2000 —Attraction, Metronom, Barcelona
• —Daydreams, Sies + Hoke Galerie, Düsseldorf
• —anos luz, Galerie Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
• —Exploding Cinema, (cur. Chris Dercon), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• 1999 —Mr. Fascination, Thread Waxing Space, New York
• —8E Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement, (cur. Simon Lamuniere), St. Gervais, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva
• —Video Stage 1.0: The Music Session, (cur. Alexandre Pollazon), Candid Arts Trust, London
• —Mondo 1, Ellen Cantor, Mark Dean, Simon Martin, (cur. Peter Lewis), London
• —Programme International Neurotic Realism: Bern Now!, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
• —Pink for Boys, Blue for Girls, Kunsthaus Bethanien, NGBK, Berlin
• —10 Supastore Superstars, (cur. Sarah Staton, Tomato, London (printed portfolio)
• —The End is the Beginning, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna
• 1998 —Ellen Cantor, Ray Johnson, James Rosenquist, Feigen Contemporary, New York
• 1997 —Knut Asdam, Ellen Cantor, Lovett/Codagnone, Rosemarie Trockel, XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York
• —504, Braunschweig Art Academy, Braunschweig
• —Gothic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (cur. John Armleder)
• 1996 —Mab Library, AC Project Room, New York
• —Supastore de Luxe, Up & Co, New York
• —Popoccultural, South London Gallery, London; Southhampton Gallery (cur. Cabinet)
• —Video Sans Titre, Galerie Froment Putman, Paris
• —Ellen Cantor, Mona Hatoum, Lovett/Codagnone, Marilyn Minter and Mike Sale, XL Xavier Laboulbenne, New York
• —Video (cur. Maciej Toporowicz & Gregory Volk, VOID
• —Summer Group Show, TRE, Stockholm
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• —Trans Art, The Kitchen, New York
• —Summer Sweat, Thomas Nordanstad, New York
• —Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians, New York
• —Summer Group Show, TRE, Stockholm
• —Fools Day, 12 Warren, New York
• —Inaugural Exhibition, Thomas Nordanstad, New York
• 1994 —4 in New York, USA, TRE, Stockholm
• —The Long Weekend: Ellen Cantor, Patricia Cronin, Marilyn Minter, Trial Balloon, New York
• —Tiny Shoes, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
• —Group Show, Thomas Nordanstad, New York
• —A Life of Secrets (cur. Kim Jones), A/C Project Room
• —Part Fantasy, Trial Balloon, New York (1992); Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (1993); University of Manitoba, Canada (1994); University of British Columbia, Vancouver (cat.) (1994) (cur. Nicola Tyson, Angela Lyras)
• —The Living Room Show (cur. Sante Scardillo), New York
• —Eau de Cologne 1983-1993, Monica Sprüth, Cologne
• —Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art by Women, David Zwirner, New York
• —21st Century Sex, Dooley LeCapellaine, New York
• 1993 —Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson, New York
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Curatorial Projects

• 2002 —Smack Bottom Face, Feigen Contemporary, New York
• 1994 —The Long Weekend Video, Trial Balloon, New York
• 1993 —Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art by Women, David Zwirner, New York

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