--- title: "4 Janine Antoni Quotes - Famous Artist (Threshold)" description: "Janine Antoni is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-janine-antoni-68449.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Janine Antoni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-janine-antoni-68449.jpg) # Janine Antoni (1964) Artist United States **4** quotes in **48** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Janine Antoni is an artist from the United States, best known for *Threshold*. ## Quick Facts About Janine Antoni Born January 19, 1964 Nationality United States Profession Artist Notable works Threshold ## About Janine Antoni Janine Antoni is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, often portraying feminist ideals. She emphasizes the human body in her pieces, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and, through technological scanning, her brain. Antoni uses her body as a tool of creation or as the subject of her pieces, exploring intimacy between the spectator and the artist. Her work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. ## Awards & Honors Guggenheim Fellowship MacArthur Fellows Program Anonymous Was A Woman Award ## Quotes by Janine Antoni > [I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janine-antoni/i-mopped-the-floor-with-my-hairthe-reason-i-m-so-interested-in-taking/) Janine Antoni [Body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/janine-antoni-68449_body_i-mopped-the-floor-with-my-hairthe-reaso_33554.jpg) > [With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janine-antoni/with-gnaw-i-was-thinking-about-traditional-sculpture-about-carving-i/) Janine Antoni [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f70/janine-antoni-68449_art_with-gnaw-i-was-thinking-about-tradition_34046.jpg) > [I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janine-antoni/i-m-really-interested-in-the-repetition-the-discipline-and-what/) Janine Antoni [Body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/janine-antoni-68449_body_i-m-really-interested-in-the-repetition_2003533.jpg) > [Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janine-antoni/performance-wasnt-something-that-i-intended-to-do-i-was-doing-work/) Janine Antoni [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a2/janine-antoni-68449_activity_performance-wasnt-something-that-i-inten_3052025.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janine-antoni/#itemlist", "name": "Janine Antoni Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. 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