Ellen Cantor
1961 - 2013
SOLO SHOWS
2018
"Ellen Cantor - My Perversion is the Belief in True Love", Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
2017
"Ellen Cantor", Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
"Ellen Cantor - Pinochet Porn", Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart
"Ellen Cantor - Is Tragedy a Choise?", Neuer Kunstverein Wein, Vienna
2016
"Ellen Cantor", MOMA, New York
"Ellen Cantor", Xavier Laboubenne Gallerie, Berlin
2008
“Within a Budding Grove”. PARTICIPANT INC, New York
2007
“New Works”. Abbt Projects, Zurich
2006
1000 000mph projects, London
2005
“Bambie’s Beastly Buddies” The Gallery Sketch, London.
Ellen Cantor Cerith Wyn Evans, Prince Charles, London
2004
Videocreenings, 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 need 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
Marcus Ritter, New York
Kunstbunker, Nuremberg
Parkhaus, Dusseldorf
2000
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
“The Snow White Cycle", Galerie Drantmann, Brussels
1999
“Be My Baby”, video installation, 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, Vienna, 1998)
1998
XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York
“Within Heaven and Hell”, Kunsthalle, Vienna (catalogue)
1997
Ice Box, Athens
Vorarlberger, Kunstverein, Bregenz (catalogue)
Feigen Gallery, Chicago (printed book)
Galerie Christian Drantmann, Brussels
1996
XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
“Video”, Christian Schenkman, Zurich
Cabinet Gallery, London
1995
Postmasters, New York
TRE, Stockholm
1993
Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada
GROUP SHOWS
2018
“Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World”, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
“17 x 24, Every Day is a Good Day”, Magazin4, Bregenz, Austria
2017
“The Mausoleum Of Lovers”, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
“Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather”, Freymond Guth Fine Arts, Basel
2016
“Parallel Vienna 2016”, Parallel Vienna, Vienna
“Coming To Power”, Maccarone Gallery, NY
“Chatham Square”, Foxy Production, NY
2014
“Benefizauktion”, Katz Contemporary, Zurich
2012
“Alptraum” - Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Johannesburg
2011
“ALPTRAUM!” – Washington DC, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Cape Town (Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund)
2010
“Nothing Political”, Komplot, Brussels
“Detroit”, Kunsthalle Wien, Project Space Karlsplatz, Vienna
“The House of Fairy Tales”, Millenium, St. Ives, Cornwall
“Y, The Black Issue”, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad
2009
“Horno f Plenty”, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London
“Never Dance Alone”, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts
Contemporaines, Tourcoing
“No Sound of Music”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
“Sound of Music”, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent
“”Three BY Three”, Guest Projects, London
“The Porn Identity”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2008
“Parkhaus”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
“3am Eternal”
2006
Liquid Economics, Itchy Park III, Limehouse Townhall,
London
Driving Fast Through a Slow-Motion Landscape, ESPAIUBU, Barcelona, curated by Erich Weiss
Don Giovanni, Kunsthalle Wien (catalogue), curated by Dr.
Gerald Matt
2005
Bad Drawing, University of Cincinnati, curated by Mark Harris
All the Pretty Corpses, Renaissance Society, University of
Chicago, curated by Hamza Walker
Wall Drawing, Pulse, Miami; Fred, London
Video Loop, Barcelona; Alexander Pollazon, London
2nd biennale vour videokunst, Contour, (catalogue)
curated by Cis Bierwickx, 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
2004
Itchy Park I, Limehouse Townhall, London
Sneeze 80x80, curated by Peter Lloyd Lewis and Natasha
Makowski, Gazon Rouge, Athens (catalogue)
Planet B, curated by Judith Reichart and Wolfgang Fetz,
Kunstverein Bregenz (catalogue)
Cinderella, Trailer, curated by Caroline Brockbank and Juan
Bolivar
2003
Forplay, Ritter/Zamet, London
10e Biennale de I’Image en Mouvement, Centre pour l’image
contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneve
L’Etrange Festival, Paris
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Video Store, curated by John Thomson, Foxy Productions,
Brooklyn, NY
Soft Sun Down, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
Prend ca court! , Montreal, Canada
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
Anemic Cinema, Sketch, curated by Alexandre Pollazon,
London
2002
“handlungsanweisungen”, Karlsplatz, Vienna
“je t’aime...moi non plus”, curated by Hilde Teerlink, Bergen
Kunsthalle (Norway), Het Doneia, Sitturd (Netherlands), ESAP
Perpignan (France), The Leisure Club Mogadishini,Copenhagen
(Denmark), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaen (Denmark), Metronom, Barcelona (Spain)
“Artaid 2002”, Bloomburg, London
“Jubilee 10 = 1”, Magazin 4 Voralberger Kunstverein, Austria
“Ellen Cantor, Robert Crumb, Tom of Finland, Annie Sprinkle”, Feigen Contemporary, New York
2001
“Runway”, Galerie Van Gelder, Curated by Jack Jaeger
“Promises, Promises?”, curated by Steve Mathewson, I.G.
Bildendekunst, Vienna
“Masculinities”, NIKOLAJ-Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre
“9e Biennale de l’image en Mouvement”, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva
“Heart of Glass”, curated by Esther Windsor, Mirror, London
“Vertigo”, curated by Gerald Matt, Ursula Blickle, Siftung,
Kraichtal; Vorarlberger, Kunstverien, Bregenz (catalogue)
“My Generation”, curated by Alexander Pollazon / Marc Nash, Atlantis, London
“Mixed Pickles”, Galerie Leyendecker, Tenerife
2000
“Attraction”, curated by Hilde Teerlinck, Metronom, Barcelona
“Daydreams”, Sies + Hoke Galerie, Dusseldorf
“2000 anos luz”, Galerie Leyendecker, Tenerife (catalogue)
“Exploding Cinema”, curated by Chris Dercon, Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1999
“Mr. Fascination” Thread Waxing Space, New York
“8E Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement”, curated by Simon Lamuniere, St. Gervais, Centre pour l’image contemporaine,
Geneva (catalogue)
“Video Stage 1.0: The Music Session”, curated by Alexandre Pollazon, Candid Arts Trust, London
“Mondo 1, Ellen Cantor, Mark Dean, Simon Martin”, curated by Peter Lewis, London
“Programme International Neurotic Realism: Bern Now!” curated by Francesca Pia / Daniel Bauman, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
“Pink for Boys, Blue for Girls”, Kunsthaus Bethanien, NGBK, Berlin (catalogue)
“10 Supastore Superstars”, curated by Sarah Staton, Tomato, London (printed portfolio)
“The End is the Beginning”, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna
1998
“Lost Paradise, (Ellen Cantor, Catherine Opie, Joachim
Koester)”, curated by Alexandre Melo, Galerie Presencia, Porto
“High Fidelity”, Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg (catalogue)
“16 Rippen” Schwulen Museum, Berlin (catalogue)
“Market Place of Ideas”, Lawrence University, WI
“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”, curated by John Armleder, Braunschweig Art Academy
“Gothic”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1996
“Map Library”, AC Project Room, New York
“Supastore de Luxe, UP & Co, New York
“Popoccultural”, South London Gallery, curated by Cabinet,
London
“Popoccultural”, Southampton Gallery (censored)
“Video Sans Titre,” Galerie Froment Putman, Paris
“Ellen Cantor, Mona Hatoum, Lovett,Codagnone, Maralyn
Minter, and Mike Sale”, XL Xavier Laboulbenne, New York
“Video”, curated by Maciej Toporowicz & Gregory Volk, VOID,
New York
“Summer Group Show”, TRE, Stockholm
1995
“Oh Pain, Oh Life”, Helmhaus, Zurich (censored)
“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
1994
“4 in New York”, curated by Karl Holmquist, TRE, Stockholm
“The Long Weekend”, Trial Balloon, New York
“Tiny Shoes”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
“Group Show”, Thomas Nordanstad, New York
“A Life of Secrets”, curated by Kim Jones, A/C Project Room,
New York
"Part Fantasy", curated by Nicola Tyson / Angela Lyras, Trial Balloon, New York; Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco; University of Manitoba, Canada; University of British Columbia, Vancouver (catalogue)
“The Living Room Show”, curated by Sante Scardillo, New York
“Eau de Cologne 1983-1993”, Monica Spruth, Cologne
“Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art by Women”,
David Zwirner, New York
“21st Century Sex” Dooley LeCapellaine, New York
“Songs of Retribution”, curated by Nancy Spero, Richard
Anderson, New York