Archives 1973 – Present
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| 1973 | Dressing Up - video/film |
| 1974 | Mogul is Mobil - postcard |
| Mogul is Mobil is a postcard (mail art) that Mogul produced after she received her first driver's license and purchased her first car. | |
| Take Off - video/film | |
| Shirley Koploy, "The Woman’s Building: Alive and Living in L A." October, MS Magazine | |
| 1975 | Woman's Building Summer Art Program Brochure |
| 1976 | Mogul’s August Clearance - installation |
| Mogul's August Clearance was an exhibition at Canis Gallery at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Mogul as "shopkeeper," transformed the gallery into a discount store. Her photos and photo collages were priced according to degree of finish, for example: Work prints at cost plus. Photos hung on clothing racks and were stacked in bins. Large price tags dangled from the hangars. Finished prints were mounted pristinely on a wall in an area titled, "The Back Room." | |
| Hollywood Moguls - photo collage series | |
| Punning on her own last name, "Hollywood Moguls", is a series of photo collages (1976-1979) about literally breaking into and/or breaking open Hollywood: the Hollywood sign, Capitol Records, the historic Pantages Theater. | |
| Leo Rubinfein, "Susan Mogul", Artforum | |
| 1979 | Hollywood Moguls - photo collage series |
| Waiting at the Soda Fountain - installation & performance at Columbia Coffee Shop in Hollywood | |
| This installation and performance at Columbia Coffee Shop in Hollywood was a culmination of the "Hollywood Moguls" series. The "Hollywood Moguls" hung on the walls, and, in addition, placemats were designed and utilized at the coffee shop for the duration of the exhibition. In the closing performance at the coffee shop - women were given video screen tests- at the counter or in a booth. Waiting at the Soda Fountain was a feminist parody about getting discovered in Hollywood. | |
| 1980 | Waiting at the Soda Fountain - video & installation at Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art (LAICA) |
| Design for Living - performance | |
| Susan Mogul makes a salad that gradually takes over the stage. While she yaks about iceberg lettuce and lemons, Jerri Allyn rushes around Mogul setting a scene- with wallpaper, aprons and tablecloths - in an absurd attempt to color coordinate Mogul with each vegetable she slices and dices. Performed at 626 Broadway, in New York City. | |
| Sally Banes "Consciousness Razing", Village Voice | |
| 1983/84 | The Last Jew in America - performance |
| In this performance Mogul gives a "history lesson" on the conflicts and contradictions of Jewish American assimilation. This one woman show was performed at small theaters, alternative art spaces, and on cable television. | |
| Gloria Ohland, "The Last Jew in America?", L.A. Weekly, November 25 - December 1 | |
| 1986 | Central Park Summerstage, New York City - performance |
| Sponsored by Creative Time in New York City, Central Park Summerstage took place at Central Park's band shell. Mogul's performance - Untitled - was an amalgam of "shticks" from the Last Jew in America and News from Home. This outdoor performance took place in front of one thousand New Yorkers. | |
| 1985/87 | News from Home - performance |
| News from Home was performed nationally at museums, underground clubs, colleges, and universities for two years. A comedic cabaret performance, News was based upon twenty years of correspondence from Susan Mogul's mother. ("Saw Barnett Newman's paintings and got some good ideas for Kim's room."). Looking just like mom, Mogul modeled her mother's cocktail dresses and commented on her letters, as the struggle to individuate was explored in the context of the mother/daughter bond. An affirmation of her own adulthood, the finale of News in December 1987 at L.A.C.E. in Los Angeles, was also the finale of Mogul's live performance work. | |
| Doug Sadownick, "Hollywood Mogul", L.A. Weekly - Picks of the Week, December 10 -16, 1987 | |
| 1988 | Dear Dennis - video/film |
| 1990 | Five East - video/film |
| As an artist-in residence, Mogul at Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles, Mogul produced a series of portraits of chronically ill children on the adolescent ward. | |
| 1991 | Prosaic Portraits, Ironies and other Intimacies - video/film |
| Pages from the Diaries of Children | |
| Pages from the Diaries of Children, Mogul's collaboration with gifted and deaf children at an L.A. public elementary school, resulted in a set of ten books, drawings, and a video diary, We Draw - You Video. Exhibited at LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. | |
| We Draw-You Video - video/film | |
| Susan Kandel, Dark Side to Children’s 'Diaries', Los Angeles Times, November 20 | |
| 1993 | Everyday Echo Street - video/film |
| 1994 | Howard Rosenberg, "A Peaceful Existence on Echo Street", Los Angeles Times - TV Review, October 3 |
| 1997 | I Stare at You and Dream - video/film |
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| Howard Rosenberg, 'I Stare at You’ an Intimate, Fresh Journey, Los Angeles Times - TV Review, May 2 | |
| 1998 | Susan Mogul; At Home in Los Angeles - press |
| 2000 | Sing O Barren Woman - video/film |
| 2001 | Piece of Work - video/film |
| Women of Vision | |
| 2008 | Driving Men - video/film |
| “Mogul looks at the men in her life, starting with her tragic first love and ending with a road trip with a new boyfriend forty years later. The often funny video tackles sex, desire, loss, family and the twisted threads of identity, as Mogul ponders being single and fifty. As with all her work, though, Driving Men is very much about a woman with a video camera…Mogul does this with insight, humor and a willingness to stand naked-literally and metaphorically - so that rather than merely being a diary, Driving Men is finally about the challenge of crafting a life.” - LA WEEKLY | |
Holly Willis, "Mini Mogul", LA Weekly, August 15-21 2008 |
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| Annie Buckley, "Movie Mogul", www.artforum.com, August 15 2008 | |