by the vaginal orifice. I Am Fertile Ground (2019) I Am Fertile Ground (2019) was a site-specific installation in the catacombs of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Small photographs, close-ups of living bodies, are presented in gilded frames shaped to look like human bones. The work speaks to the fragility of the human form, surrounded as it was by the remains of some 560,000 individuals buried at Green-Wood, one of the earliest examples of a large park-like and varied in style cemetery, built in rural America. Teaching Since 2000, Antoni teaches fine art in a graduate course called "Master Class/Mentor Groups" at Columbia University, School of the Arts. Personal life Antoni is married to artist, Paul Ramirez Jonas and together they have a daughter. The couple met while in graduate school at Rhode Island School of Design. Awards 1996 – IMMA Glen Dimplex Artists Award 1998 – Genius Grant, MacArthur Fellow 1998 – Painting and Sculpture Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation 1998 – Larry Aldrich Foundation Award 2003 – Artistic Achievement Award, Rhode Island School of Design 2011 – Guggenheim Fellow 2012 – Creative Capital Grant References External links Janine Antoni on Artnet.com Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 2 (2003). The-artists.org Janine Antoni page MoMA Learning Page on Janine Antoni "Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One", October 7, 2009, Joe Fusaro Asp.cornell.edu Massmoca.org Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: Oral history interview 20th-century American sculptors 21st-century American sculptors American women sculptors Feminist artists 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists MacArthur Fellows Sarah Lawrence College alumni Rhode Island School of Design alumni 1964 births Living people Bahamian artists American women installation artists American installation artists Bahamian emigrants to the United States People from Freeport, Bahamas American women performance artists American performance artists Bahamian women artists