Cecelia Condit
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Cecelia Condit 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 videos explore the dark side of female subjectivity and focus on the displacement that exists between women and society, women and the natural world.
With a focus on the myths of old age, motherhood and children, Condit weaves stories that are full of memories and becomings.
In the past 30 years, Condit has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation
, the American Film Institute
, the National Endowment for the Arts
, the Mary Nohl Fellowship Award, and Wisconsin Arts Council Award for Media Arts, and the National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation.
Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, alternative spaces and festivals and is represented in many public and private collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, the Museum of Modern Art
, New York, the Carnegie Institute
, Pittsburgh, and the Polaroid Corporation
.
Condit studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art of Temple University. Currently she is a professor of film and video at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the director of the graduate program in film.
Her videotapes are available from the Video Data Bank, Chicago, and Electronic Arts Intermix, NYC.
With a focus on the myths of old age, motherhood and children, Condit weaves stories that are full of memories and becomings.
In the past 30 years, Condit has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
, the American Film Institute
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act...
, the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
, the Mary Nohl Fellowship Award, and Wisconsin Arts Council Award for Media Arts, and the National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation.
Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, alternative spaces and festivals and is represented in many public and private collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York, the Carnegie Institute
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are four museums that are operated by the Carnegie Institute headquartered in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
, Pittsburgh, and the Polaroid Corporation
Polaroid Corporation
Polaroid Corporation is an American-based international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company's flagship product line until the February...
.
Condit studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art of Temple University. Currently she is a professor of film and video at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the director of the graduate program in film.
Her videotapes are available from the Video Data Bank, Chicago, and Electronic Arts Intermix, NYC.
Videography
- Beneath the Skin 1981, 12:05 min, color, sound
- Possibly in Michigan 1983, 11:40 min, color, sound
- Not a Jealous Bone 1987, 10:24 min, color, sound
- Suburbs of Eden 1992, 15:17 min, color, sound
- Oh, Rapunzel 1996, 35 min, color, sound
- Why Not a Sparrow 2003, 12 min, color, sound
- All About a Girl 2004, 5:25 min, color, stereo
- Little Spirits 2005, 8:35 min, color, stereo
- Annie Lloyd 2008, 17:20 min, color, stereo
- First Dream After Mother Died, 2010, 6:00 min, color, stereo
External links
- Cecelia Condit's Webpage http://www.ceceliacondit.com/
- Cecelia Condit in the Video Data Bank http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?CONDITC_002
- Electronic Arts Intermix http://www.eai.org/eai/artistTitles.htm?id=398
- Vicki Callahan Podcast on Cecelia Condit http://www.vickicallahan.com/vickicallahan.com/Podcast/Podcast.html
- Article by Kerrie Welsh http://www.cueartfoundation.org/assets/files/YACMP/Condit_Welsh.pdf
- Article from the Brooklyn Rail by Heidi Howard http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/artseen/cecilia-condit