Janine Antoni was born in 1964 in Freeport, Bahamas. She received her BA from Sarah LawrenceCollege in New York, and she earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989.Antoni has exhibited internationally at major institutions, including the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum ofModern Art the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Reina Sofia,Madrid; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Magasin III, Stockholm; the Hayward Gallery,London; and Sammlung Goetz, Munich.

She has also been represented in international biennials and festivals, such as the Whitney Biennial, New York; the Venice Biennale; the Johannesburg Biennale; the Gwangju Biennale; the Istanbul Biennial; SITE Santa Fe; Project 1 Biennial, New Orleans; the Kochi-Muziris Biennale; and documenta 14 at the Fridericianum, Kassel.

The artist’s work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Magasin III, Stockholm; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

Antoni is the recipient of several prestigious awards including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2011, a 2012 Creative Capital Artist Grant and the 2014 Anonymous Was A Woman award.