Cheryl Donegan Movies

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

In this documentation of a performance at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Donegan uses her body as an art-making tool, and toys with identity...

Life as seen through the lens of a plastic bottle.

Juxtaposing two restagings of a melodramatic scene from Tommy, The Who's rock opera, Channeling analyzes the ways in which media cannibalizes,...

Refuses began as a visual extension of Carolyn Bergdahl's poem Fuses (after Carolee Schneemann). Just as Bergdhl's poem speaks to Schneemann's...

Presenting "Cheryl" the home-shopping motivator as a surrogate and cheesy consumer goods as art objects, Cheryl the artist questions hype and...

To the accompaniment of the only extant recording of James Joyce reading from his own work, Donegan uses a clear cellophane hood and a pane of glass...

Donegan sets up a series of charged relationships -- between artist and model, art object and artistic "gesture," performer and viewer. The "lieder"...

This film refracts Donegan's earlier performance work through the lens of a studio art practice. The artist subverts the tradition of studio painting...

In this black and white performance tape, Donegan continues her ironic exploration of the process of making art. Working within the format of a music...

Donegan calls into question the institutional armature that surrounds a work of art, and investigates boundaries between "high" and "low" culture.

Shot at the Flushing Mall in Queens, New York, "Flushing" is tour of a mall that doesn't live up to the glossy standards of typical American consumer...

An obscure, appropriated Yoko Ono monologue is applied to a banal setting.

The piece is a short lament and meditation on housework, heartbreak and posing, keeping up appearances and appearing to keep up.

As the title suggests, a bodily metaphor, metabolism, is at play in the continuous cycle and recycle of images. As the models emerge and recede into...

Milk pours from a plastic container into a woman's mouth. The woman swallows it, dribbles it back at the container, and spits it out.

Scraps of color and pattern slide across the screen in a stop and start progression that frustrates all sense of spatiality and depth. David...

A series of videos put together and updated regularly until Vine closed.

Donegan eats her way layer by iconic layer through a white bread and KRAFT American Cheese sandwich — crafting hearts, stars, faces and bunnies...

To a compilation soundtrack of studio out-takes, including excerpts from the Beach Boys recording sessions for Good Vibrations, we see Donegan work...