Ellen Cantor

Ellen Cantor (1961–2013) was an American artist. Cantor was known for combining pornography, politics, pop culture and the handmade in her paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos, and films. Born in Detroit, Michigan to a Jewish family, Cantor completed her studies at Brandeis University in 1983 with a degree in painting. She went on to study at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1991.

Solo exhibitions and screenings

 * Be My Baby, Delfina, London, 1999; XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York, 1998 and 1996; Feigen, Chicago, 1997; Cabinet, London, 1996; and Postmasters, New York, 1995.
 * Video Drawing 1996-2001, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2000; Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, 2001.
 * Ellen Cantor Cerith Wyn Evans, Kunsthalle Wien, 2002; Sketch, London, 2005; Prince Charles Cinema, London, 2005.
 * Path of Sun – Road of Life, 1000000 mph, London, 2006
 * Within a Budding Grove, Participant Inc, New York, 2008; White Cubicle, London, 2008; Abbt Projects, Zurich, 2007
 * Subversive Cinema: Ellen Cantor, curated by Lux, Zoo art fair, London, 2009
 * Serpentine Cinema: Film in Progress, Serpentine Gallery, curated by Nicola Lees/Victoria Brooks, London, 2009
 * Séance de projection de films, La GAD, Gallerie Arnaud Deschin, Marseille, 2011
 * The Dictator & the Maid, The Black Mariah, Cork, Ireland, curated by Dallas Seitz & The Black Mariah, 2014
 * Ellen Cantor at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Cinderella Syndrome at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco curated by Jamie Stevens and Fatima Hellberg, 2015–16

Death and legacy
Cantor died on April 22, 2013, in her apartment in New York City after a year-long battle with lung cancer.