Aimee Goguen (b. 1982 Los Angeles County, USA)
Education:
2016 MFA Fine Art | California Institute of the Arts
2009 BFA Experimental Animation | California Institute of the Arts
Selected Exhibition and Screenings:
2025 The Audition Tapes, 2220 Arts + Archives, LA
2025 Gene’s Presents “1TB Verbatim: Los Angeles Timing 2013-2025”, Leroy’s, LA
2024 Secret Magic show, Human Resources, LA
2024 dark dark room, ACP, LA
2023 Ridykeulous, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
2022 Mountain of the Collapse, JOAN, LA
2022 Debbie’s Barium Swallow and Title Sequence, The Sunset Spectacular, LA
2022 Purple Glitter Slime, Act 1 and 2 w/ Dakota Higgins, Human Resources, LA
2022 Sparkle, Black Diamond Hotel, Canada
2022 Screening No. 16: The History of That Body, Ecstatic Static, on-line resource
2021 Six (Linear) Feet, ONE Gay and Lesbian Archives, LA
2021 Tom of Finland: Art & Culture Festival: Raw Anatomy, LA
2020 Heaven and Hell, Tom of Finland house, LA
2020 Tom of Finland: Art & Culture Festival: Plugged In, on-line resource
2019 Torso of Whatever, O Project Space, LA
2019 Dirty Looks, San Francisco, New York and Canada
2018 Refusing Intimacy with the Present Moment, Altes Finanzamt, Germany
2017 Blanking Out Extra Time, w/ Rollin Hunt, Golden Spike Books, LA
2017 ec.dy.sis, CASSTL, Antwerp
2017 Accidentally on Purpose, PANEL, LA
2016 Protuberances, LAXART, LA
2016 Things: a queer legacy of graphic art and play, Participant Inc, NY
2015 Their little stickers, like fig leafs {sic}, Chin’s Push, LA
2015 Outside Museum, Portland Museum of Modern Art and TPL, CA
2014 The Fantasies Given to Us May Never Be Fixed, Vox Populi, PA
2014 Sweet first, Seizure Second, Human Resources, LA
2013 Still Wearing Each Other When Alone, Vox Populi, PA
2012 Let Your Body In, ONE Archive Gallery, LA
2011 That’s How We Know the Tongue Is Blind, Curtat Tunnel, Switzerland
Public Commissions:
2022 Debbie’s Barium Swallow and Title Sequence, The Sunset Spectacular, LA
Press and Printed Media:
Ezequiel Olvera, “Artist at Work: Aimee Goguen, East of Borneo, interview, June 3 2025
https://eastofborneo.org/articles/artists-at-work-aimee-goguen
Dodie Bellamy, “The Pink Place,” Bee Reaved, 2021
https://www.semiotexte.com/bee-reaved
Annie Rose “The Psychosexuality of Thunska Pansittivorakul and Aimee Goguen”, Posture Mag, June 1, 2014
https://posturemag.com/online/the-psychosexuality-of-thunska-pansittivorakul-and-aimee-goguen/
Instruction:
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Adjunct Animation Faculty | 2021-2023 | Valencia, CA
Citrus College
Adjunct Animation Lecturer | 2021-2022 | Los Angeles, CA
California State University Bakersfield (CSUB)
Adjunct Animation Lecturer | 2020-2022| Los Angeles, CA
Video Programming:
2025 La Jumelle de Jesus/Everything Was Green/On Air: Purity Corruption & Pollution,
Margaret Haines, Human Resources, LA
2024 Deluge, Meejin Hong, Human Resources, LA
2023 Summer Late Night Film Series, co-curated w/ John Birtle, Human Resources, LA
2022 Lick, Stick, Leak, co-curated w/ Suzy Halajian, JOAN/2220 Theatre, LA
2020 All the Reasons, co-curated w/ Mariah Garnett, REDCAT, LA
2019 Suck-Wall w/ Suavital Paper and Angel Zinovieff, Mast on Fig, LA
2018 I am no bird, co-curated w/ Mariah Garnett, LTD, LA
2012-2015 AFTERGLOW: Summer Video Series, co-curated w/ Harry Dodge, LA
Filmography:
2026
BULLET-TIME and the DUMP-BUTTON, HD, color, sound, 0:0
2025
Flex Video, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound by Angel Zinovieff, 0:0
The Audition Tapes, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 1hr 42m
2024
Earthquake, HD, animation, color, silent, with Rollin Hunt, 0:0
2023
Broom Spray, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, with Tom Rees, 0:0
2022
Mountain of the Collapse, HD, animation, color, sound by Caye Castagnetto, 2m
2021
Act 1 and 2, HD, color, sound by Rollin Hunt and Dakota Higgins, 9m 02s
2018
Scream Tapes, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 1m 8s
Human Bridge, hi-8 on SD video, color, music by Caye Castagnetto, 2m 25s
2017
Dumb Button, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 9m 02s
Human Arcade (splitting), HD, animation, color, sound, 1m
Human Arcade (duplicate and multiply), HD animation, color, sound, 1m
Boxing one-two-three, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 1m
2016
Murder Sequence, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound by Rollin Hunt, 1m 12s
Bully, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 24s
Double-sided, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound by Rollin Hunt, 1m 48s
Coloring Video, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 3m 50s
Blobbing, hi-8 on SD video, sound by Rollin Hunt, 3m 15s
2015
From Girls to Blob, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 1m 44s
Hosing, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 4m 44s
A and B Blood, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 3m 07s
2014
Slamming one-two-three, hi-8 on SD video, 3m 21s
Dogs of Church, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 4m 46s
This Man Is Buff, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 1m 54s
Metal Horning, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 2m 10s
2013
Escape from Witch Mountain, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 2m 36s
Pterodaktulos, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 2m 59s
Matterhorn, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 3m 17s
Tongue Job, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 3m 40s
2012
Big Bad Straw, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 1m 27s
Tub Cake, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 3m 09s
Monster-tits, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 41s
Sloshing, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 2m 07s
2011
Hot Job, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 2m 49s
Cake Poem, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 2m 27s
Triangle Borf, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 3m 48s
Paddle Boxing, hi-8 on SD video, color, sound, 3m 28s
Grants:
2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation
Residencies:
2020 Time-Space-Money HRLA