Career Bio

Career Bio

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.

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, and, the UCLA Oral History Program printed the volume, “Susan Mogul: An Oral History.”

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 was the keynote speaker at a national conference in Zurich on film and autobiography; lectured in the series “Critical Issues in Contemporary Art” at the Henry Gallery in Seattle, and presented a lecture at the Wattis Center for Contemporary Art in San Francisco on comedy and performance.

“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 and a major essay in the 2020 summer issue of the Los Angeles arts quarterly, X-TRA. Titled, “A Feminist’s Survival Index”, the essay 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.

Mogul’s first solo museum exhibition – a major survey of her work – opened August 2022 at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, a major museum in Warsaw, Poland.