Mircea Cantor

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| caption = Mircea Cantor at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

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| birth_date = 1977

| birth_place = Romania

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| nationality = Romanian

| field = Video, Animation, Sculpture, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Conceptual Art

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| awards = Marcel Duchamp Prize, 2011
Ricard Prize, 2004

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Mircea Cantor (born 1977) is a Romanian-born artist who follows in the tradition of French artist Marcel Duchamp in that he employs readymade objects.Demos, T.J. "Mircea Cantor: The Title is the Last Thing". Philadelphia: Harper Perennial, 2006. Cantor's choice of media is diverse, in that he has employed video, animation, sculpture, drawing, painting, and Installation art in his work.{{cite web|title=Mircea Cantor|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/mircea-cantor/|work=Artists|publisher=artnet|accessdate=10 May 2013}}

Cantor's 2005 video work, "Deeparture", which was on view in the contemporary galleries at The Museum of Modern Art, features a deer and a wolf together in a pristine white box environment. Cantor's work is included in The Museum of Modern Art,{{cite web|title=Mircea Cantor|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=30879|work=The Collection|publisher=MOMA|accessdate=10 May 2013}} the Walker Art Center,{{cite web|last=CHONG|first=DORYUN|title=Recent Acquisitions: Mircea Cantor’s Deeparture and Cao Fei’s COSPlayers|url=http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2006/recent-acquisitions-mircea-cantors-deeparture|work=Magazine|publisher=Walker Art|accessdate=10 May 2013}} The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, The Israel Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Abteiberg Museum, Magasin 3, as well as in other collections worldwide. He was awarded with the Ricard Prize in 2004; in 2011, he won Best Dance Short Film at the Tiburon International Film Festival with Tracking Happiness. In 2011, he received the Marcel Duchamp Prize.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} He was named an Officier in Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2019.