Cecelia Condit
An internationally known video artist, Condit has previously made works focused on autobiographical or feminist themes. Why Not a Sparrow departs from these subjects, marking a new direction for Condit. With her disttrinve style, Condit develops the video's central concerns of environmental degradation and extinction.
Selected Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Selected Awards
1996 Barbara Latham Award, Dallas video Festival
1989 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Canal +, French Television Award, Paris, France
The International Film and TV Festival of New York
Education
1976 Master of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1971 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Professorship
1986 to present, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Director of Graduate Film Program.
Videography
2005, 08:40 minutes, colour, English
2005, 12:00 minutes, colour, English
2004, 05:25 minutes, colour, English
1996, 35:00 minutes, colour, English
1992, 15:17 minutes, colour, English
1987, 11:00 minutes, colour, English
1983, 12:00 minutes, colour, English
1981, 12:00 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
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by . Fellowships for Individual Artists, 2004. Milwaukee: The Greater Milwakee Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004.
by . Afterimage, Jan 1998, v. 25, no. 4. Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1998.
by . Artforum, May 1988, v. 15, no. 10.
by . Afterimage, May 1987, v. 14, no. 10.
by . Canadian Art, Spring 1986, v. 3, no. 3.
by . Afterimage, Sept. 1986, v. 14, no. 2.
by . Afterimage, Nov. Winter 1984, v. 12, no. 4.