Cecelia Condit

Cecelia Condit (born 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist working in video. A storyteller producing videos since 1981, her work swings between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty. In the psychological landscape of contemporary fairy tales, Condit's films put a subversive spin on the traditional mythologies of female representation and the psychologies of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her work focuses on myths of old age, childhood, lovers, mothers, families, friends.

Cecelia Condit
Born1947
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[1]
Years active1981-
Known forher short, often surreal films
Notable work
Possibly in Michigan

Over the past 30 years, Condit has been the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Mary L. Nohl Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Council and National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces and is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. In 2008, Condit had her first solo show exhibition at the CUE Art Foundation in New York.[2]

She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art of Temple University. She served as professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, before retiring in 2017.[3]

Condit's work has been widely popular among youth and young adults, beginning with the viral success of her film "Possibly in Michigan" on Reddit in 2015.[4] Four years later, an audio clip from the same film became a viral hit on TikTok, with over 22,000 iterations created as of July 2019.[5]

Her videos are available from the Video Data Bank, Chicago, and Electronic Arts Intermix, NYC.

Videography

Beneath the Skin 1981

Possibly in Michigan 1983

Not a Jealous Bone 1987

Suburbs of Eden 1992

Oh, Rapunzel 1996

Why Not a Sparrow 2003

All About a Girl 2004

Little Spirits 2005

Annie Lloyd 2008

First Dream After Mother Died 2010

Within a Stone’s Throw 2012

Pulling Up Roots 2015

Some Dark Place 2016

Pizzly Bear 2017

We Were Hardly More Than Children 2018

I've Been Afraid 2020

Family

Condit has two grown sons, Schuyler Vogel and Lloyd Vogel.

References
  1. "Faculty & Staff Directory". Peck School of the Arts. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  2. "Cecelia Condit". CUE Art Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  3. https://uwm.edu/arts/directory/condit-cecelia/
  4. https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/34ejws/possibly_the_creepiest_thing_ive_ever_watched/
  5. https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvv8z/cecilia-condit-video-art-tiktok
  • University of Wisconsin faculty profile
  • Tamblyn, Christine. “Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women’s Video of the 1980’s.”
  • Mellencamp, Patricia, “Uncanny Feminism: The Exquisite Corpses of Cecelia Condit”, Framework, vol. 32, no. 3:104-22.
  • Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer's “Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art.”
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