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 of myths of old age, childhood, lovers, mothers, families, friends.

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.

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 is currently a professor of film and director of the graduate program in the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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

Family

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