Cecelia Condit

Cecelia Condit (born 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence.

Cecelia Condit
Born	1947
Nationality	American
Occupation	Video Artist and Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[1]
Years active	1981-
Known for	her short, often surreal films
Notable work	Possibly in Michigan Not a Jealous Bone Annie Lloyd Pulling Up Roots We Were Hardly More Than Children I'm Not Afraid

Condit has received 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 received renewed attention in 2015 after her short film Possibly in Michigan was posted to Reddit.[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.