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Susan Mogul

Born 1949 -

Having been involved with video since the early 1970s, Susan Mogul is a pioneer of the medium. Initially producing an important series of humorous and staunchly feminist performance videos, her practice quickly expanded to more complicated and experimental forms of narrative, including feature length work. Mogul has received grants including: Guggenheim Fellowship, ITVS commission, National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Getty Trust Fellowship, and Center for Cultural Innovation grant. 

A survey of Moguls video/films took place in Vienna at the Austrian Film Museum in 2024. Mogul’s video/film retrospective was presented at Visions du Reel Film Festival in Switzerland in 2009. Driving Men (2008), a feature length documentary, screened in international competitions in Japan, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, and India. Mogul’s first solo museum exhibition – a major survey of her work- opened August 2022 at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland.

Mogul’s work has been featured in historic exhibitions: California Video at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital at the Pompidou in Paris, and Where Art Might Happen: The early years of CalArts at the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria. Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video devotes a chapter to Mogul’s work and career. Mogul was the keynote speaker at a national conference in Zurich on film and autobiography.

Less is Never More, a solo installation was presented at as-is-la gallery in Los Angeles in 2019. Less... garnered a full-page review in the LA Times. A major essay in the 2020 summer issue of the Los Angeles arts quarterly, X-TRA, titled, A Feminist’s Survival Index, not only reviewed Mogul’s current work, but positioned it in the context of the history of feminist art, and her legacy as a Los Angeles artist.


Available Titles by Susan Mogul

Title Year Runtime Collection
A Piece of Work 2001 00:06:00 Single Titles
Big Tip, Back Up, Shut Out 1976 00:10:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Dear Dennis 1988 00:05:18 Single Titles
Dressing Up 1973 00:07:06 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Driving Men 2008 01:08:00 Single Titles
Everyday Echo Street: A Summer Diary 1993 00:32:00 Single Titles
Feminist Studio Workshop Videoletter 1975 00:30:00 On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Five East 1991 00:08:00 Single Titles
Home Safe Home 1997 00:06:00 Single Titles
I Stare at You and Dream 1997 00:56:40 Single Titles
Laurel and Susan 1973 00:03:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Live in San Diego 1977 00:18:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Looking in the Mirror, I See Me — Early Women’s Video Art from the Video Data Bank Collection 2018 01:12:24 Compilations, Curated Compilations
Mogul is Mobil Volume III Redux 1975 00:04:38 Single Titles
Mom's Move 2018 00:25:00 Single Titles
Prosaic Portraits, Ironies and Other Intimacies 1991 00:46:00 Single Titles
Sing, O Barren Woman 2000 00:10:35 Single Titles
Susan Mogul Videoworks: On Motherhood 2024 01:13:35 New Releases, Single Artist Compilations
Susan Mogul Videoworks: The Woman's Building 2014 00:39:00 Single Artist Compilations, On Art and Artists
Susan Mogul's Woman's Building 2010 00:09:00 On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Take Off 1974 00:10:30 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Tell Me About Your Mother 2024 00:38:00 New Releases, Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
The Electric Mirror: Reflecting on Video Art in the 1970s 2017 Compilations, Curated Compilations
The Pencil Test 2023 00:02:01 New Releases, Single Titles
Untitled (Menses) 1973 00:01:10 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Waiting at the Soda Fountain 1980 00:24:00 Single Titles

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