ActorAgeCheck

Bio: Through a multimedia art practice that encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, and film, as well as through her work as a curator and writer, Ellen Cantor (1961-2013) advanced bold new feminist representations of sexuality and female disempowerment and empowerment. Her work follows from a preceding generation of women who made challenging, often sexually explicit work, many of whom, such as Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke, she included in the landmark 1993 exhibition she curated at David Zwirner Gallery in New York, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art by Women