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Susan M. Vogel grew up in Beirut, has lived for long periods in a village in Ivory Coast,
and now resides in New York City. She has published many books, written a few, and founded the Museum
for African Art in New York-which survived her departure-and directed two other museums. She then spent
two years as a graduate student in the MFA Graduate Film Department at New York University's Tisch School
of the Arts, and became a documentary filmmaker.
Vogel has a Ph.D. in art history and is an internationally recognized curator of and expert on African art. She has held the positions of curator for the Rockefeller collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Founding Director of the Museum for African Art; and Director of the Yale University Art Gallery. Her last book BAULE: African Art/Western Eyes has been translated into French and received the Herskovits Prize, the African Studies Association's highest honor for a book of original research on Africa. It was also runner up for the Victor Turner Prize of the American Anthropological Association.
She has four films in distribution with Icarus Films through her production company, Prince Street Pictures, and
is currently creating two films for the Museum for African Art, N.Y.: a full length portrait of the artist El
Anatsui; and media for an exhibition on Dogon masking also in collaboration with the Musée National du Mali. In 2004 she was appointed Professor of African Art and Architecture in the Department of Art History, Columbia University where she maintains an active teaching schedule.
- Malick Sidibe: Portrait of the Artist as a Portraitist - Short but sweet look at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented social and cultural changes in Mali over a forty-year period.
- Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali Today - About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.
- Fang: An Epic Journey - Mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's 100 year journey - a whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes!
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